Psychology

Course Description:  Psychology 
Course # 290  1/2 credit     Grade 11, 12 Elective
Psychology is the study of human behavior.  This course focuses on human development and poses such critical questions as:  Who  am I?  What personality type do I have?  Why do I act the way that I do?  What is abnormal behavior and how should it be treated?  Students investigate the leading psychological theorists, take several personality tests and complete classroom experiments in human behavior.  

Psychology Resources
The links below are for class activities

Mental Toughness Test Portfolio Project Emotional Intelligence Personality Tests
Motivation and Emotion Gender Differences General Psychology Abnormal Psychology
  Hypochondria Test Perception  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links to Recent Psychology Articles (for portfolio project)

http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml 

http://www.magportal.com/c/sci/psych/

http://www.psychotherapistresources.com/current/articles/articlesframe.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/HTDocs/prod/PTOrecentnews/recent_news.asp

http://www.gapsychology.org/CONSUMERS/articles.htm

http://www.psych.ucalgary.ca/search.html

http://www.apa.org/monitor/

http://www.psycline.org/journals/psycline.html

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi/journals.htm#P

http://www.psywww.com/resource/bytopic.htm#social (scroll down a little for a list of links on this site)

http://www.socialpsychology.org/social.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emotional Intelligence Test

http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/emotional_iq_r2_access.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personality Tests

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/2brains/

http://www.emode.com/ Different personality/ fun psychology tests.

http://www.queendom.com

http://cac.psu.edu/~j5j/test/ipipneo1.htm IPIP-NEO A long, 300 question test, but very informative.

http://colorquiz.com An interesting test relating to your current personality.

http://www.2h.com/Tests/personality.phtml
This site has a variety of personality tests.

http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html
This site has many tests, but make sure that the test you are taking is worthwhile.  

Ask.Com also has numerous other types of personality tests. Simply type in Personality Tests in the search box and find the one that best suits you.

http://www.masteringstress.com/psychologytoday/stress_frames.asp?  Stress Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Motivation and Emotion

www.mtn.org/EA/ Emotions Anonymous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gender Differences

www.csun.edu/~psy453/ A site devoted to debated issues of human sexuality. Professional resources are use.

www.aauw.org/ American Association of University Women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Psychology Sites

http://www.psychology.org Links to everything you want to know about psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abnormal Psychology

http://mentalhealth.miningco.com/ Interesting articles about different aspects of mental health.

http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.seasonal.html This site directs you to treatments, research, sources of light boxes, and additional resources about SAD.

http://www.online-hypnotherapist.com/phobias.shtml This extremely complete list of phobias is offered online by a hypnotherapist. The list is divided by both clinical names and specific fear names.

http://www.mentalhelp.net

http://www.psychcrawler.com A great search engine for psychology research.

 

 

 

 

 

perception

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