Psychology Fair :::

Sensory

Psychological Tutorials and Demonstrations
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/tutor.html
Scroll down to Sensation and Perception

Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chsense.html
Select from Vision or Hearing.  Includes Blind Spot, After Images, Sensory Adaptation, Illusions, etc.

Brain and Behavior
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/

Hearing Tests Summary
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/testing/assess.htm

Sample Hearing Tests
http://azhearing.com/heartest2.htm

Auditory System
http://webschoolsolutions.com/patts/systems/ear.htm
Site with many excellent diagrams of the ear 

Touch (Somatosensation)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chtouch.html
Site with many easy to do activities illustrating touch

Optical Illusions

Grouping
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/optical_illusions/intro_principles.html

Form Perception
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~hs0dsn/norton/struc/chap_06/6_208.html 
Site has examples of form perceptions.

Human Depth Perception
http://www2.iicm.edu/0x811bc833_0x000dacca
Major terms defined

Color Perception
http://www.diycalculator.com/sp-cvision.shtml

Left Handedness and Left Brain
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/index.html

Personality

The Shyness Homepage
http://www.shyness.com/

Nonverbal Communication Research Page
http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/wagnerk/webagogy/hecht.htm

Sleep

The Sleep Homepage
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~thorpy/

Dream Interpretation (Freud and Jung)
http://dreaminterpretation.freudfile.org/

Disorders

APA Help Center
Covers common psychological problems.
http://helping.apa.org/

Great Ideas in Personality—How people behave and think
http://www.personalityresearch.org/

 Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics in Psychology
http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml

Mental Health Net
http://mentalhelp.net/

Psych Central
http://www.grohol.com/resources/

Psych Web
http://www.psywww.com/index.html
Links to brochures on mental disorders and psychology careers.

PsycARTICLES and other journal databases available from school.
Many current psychology books have been purchased to supplement this assignment.  Beware of bad sites—look for responsible experts and organizations.

 

  Last updated: August 30, 2005