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Teaching Resources

Iowa Teachers of Psychology
2007 Conference
compiled by Linda L. Walsh (walsh@uni.edu)
University of Northern Iowa
Easy access to these links is available at: http://www.uni.edu/walsh/teachresources.html
Teaching of Psychology Organizations
TOPSS (Teaching of Psychology in Secondary Schools)  http://www.apa.org/ed/topss/homepage.html
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National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology  http://www.apa.org/ed/natlstandards.html

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Other Online Teaching Related Publications
National Teaching and Learning Forum
The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
Tomorrow's Professor   Also available as a listserv
Psychology Learning and Teaching

Teaching of Psychology Listservs
PsychTeacher
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Teaching of Psychology Conferences
Iowa Teachers of Psychology (ITOP) (November) http://www.central.edu/itop
National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP) (early Jan. in Florida)  http://www.NITOP.org/
Midwest Institute for Students & Teachers of Psychology (MISTOP) (late Feb/early March in Chicago area) http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/puccio/MISTOP.htm Other Resources (*indicates new addition this fall)
Classic Articles in Psychology
John Krantz's Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations
Demonstrations and Tutorials from Athabasca University
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology     Activities and Exercises for Teaching Social Psychology     Social Psychology Network  *Social Psy-Teaching Info Page
Personality Pedagogy
Stanford Prison Experiment Online Slideshow
Understanding Prejudice.org: Exercises and Demonstrations
Teaching Clinical Psychology - Resources
High School 7 Day Teaching Unit on Positive Psychology
Psychology in Popular Films Resource
Neuroscience for Kids
The HOPES Brain Tutorial
Click the Colour (a Stroop Test like task)
Dual Task (Split Attention) Demos 
*72 Visual Illusions and Optical Phenomena
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust: Hidden Message
* More Reverse Speech/Music Examples
Kathy Morgan's Assignments for Brain, Mind and Behavior
ePsych Online Activities 
PsychExps Experiments
Classroom Links for Interactive Psychology (activity-related links for all areas of psychology)
Defense Mechanism Exercise      Stress Preparedness Questionnaire     Memory Demo      Lateralization Demo 
* The "Split Brain Student" Activity
*A Social Dilemma Activity
Interactive Exercises (Huffman Text)     Active Learning Exercises (Huffman Text)
Memory Games from the Exploratorium    The Memory Exhibition
* False Memory Demonstration
Wonderful Surveys and Interactives from BBC     Recognizing Fake Smiles     Perception Challenge
Sensation/Perception Jeopardy                  Learning/Memory Jeopardy   Condition Pavlov's Dog
Jeopardy and Millionaire Game Templates       A PowerPoint "Toolbox" of Educational Games
Online Demonstration of Tasks Usually Showing Sex Differences in Performance  
* BBC- Brain/Sex ID Test 
* Critical Thinking "ESP" Activity
* Disabilities Activity
*Time Magazine Addiction Website and Activity
Locus of Control Test      Perfectionism Test      Big 5 Test

Father Guido Sarducci - 5 Minute University Video
Rat Basketball
Online Video Archive of Scientific American Frontiers
Secret of Aging Website      Life Expectancy Calculator
Online Access to Anneberg Videos (Discovering Psychology, The Brain, The Mind , The World of Abnormal Psychology,  Seasons of Life to mention just a few in their catalog)
*The Mind Teaching Modules
*PBS Secret Life of the Brain Spplemental Website
*NOVA Website on Mirror Neurons
FRONTLINE Videos

CBS News Videos 
Musical Adaptation of Milgram Soundtrack

Radio Segments from NPR for your students to listen to:
Treating Depression in Adolescents  Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Thinking Positive     Mental Illness in Children - Parts 1-4
Cognitive Behavior Therapy's Controversial Founder        Remembering David Reimer         Testosterone Show
*H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory Research  
* How the Brain Makes New Memories
* Restless Legs Syndrome
*The Polygraph: Foolproof Test for catching Liars Still Elusive 

*MRI Lie Detection
* Americans Flunk Self-Assessment
* Alex the Parrot Passes Away
* Toddlers Outsmart Chimps in Some Tasks, Not All
* Living With OCD
* The Placebo Effect
*A Look at an Autistic Savant's Brilliant Mind

* Albert Ellis: Father of Cognitive Therapy
* Girl Talk vs Boy Talk

* Stereotypes
On This Day in the History of Psychology
Teaching Methods/Subject Area Resources Links
*Amy Sweetman's Introductory Psychology Resources
Research Methods practice problems
Independent/Dependent Variable Homework Assignment       Another Methods Homework   *Independent, dependent, & extraneous variables
Time to Think? Making Observations
Enter the Research Methods Lab
Guessing Correlations from Scatterplots
The Psi Cafe Jokes and Cartoons
College Board AP Website        AP Institutes & Workshops
How to Get Straight A's in College
There are many text companion and publishers' sites; these are just some that I found useful:
PsychSite - Allyn-Bacon Instructor's Resources
PsychQuest - Worth Publishing Web Activities
PsychSim - Worth Publishing Web Activities
Blair-Broeker & Ernst: Thinking About Psychology Companion Site
Huffman: Psychology in Action, 6 e - Instructor Companion Site
Kassin: Psychology, 4 e Companion Site
Lefton Learning Community Activities
Lefton Learning Community Online Handbook on Teaching Psychology
Plotnik: Introduction to Psychology Companion Website
Westen: Psychology, 3 e - Instructor Companion Site
Kail: Children and Their Development Companion Website
Comer, Abnormal Psychology 5e - Detailed abnormal case studies
Durand & Barlow Essentials of Abnormal Psychology Companion Site
Maisto et al.: Drug Use & Abuse Companion Site (with some streaming video segments)
Klein - Biological Psychology Companion Site (faculty resources include all book images)
Introductory Psychology Image Bank
Developmental Psychology Image Bank
Abnormal Psychology Image Gallery
Medical Image Banks (including neuroanatomy, pharmacology, etc.)
Neuropsychology Image Bank
Images for Psychology of Perception

Online Videos from YouTube and Google Video.
If you find segments useful in the teaching of psychology please email me (walsh@uni.edu) the link.

* Tour of the Sheep Brain
*Brain Plasticity After Hemispherectomy
Sleep Clinic with a Couple Sleep Disorders
A very narcoleptic dog (2:07)
17 seconds of Rusty the Narcoleptic Dog
Sleep Apnea Public Service Announcement
Use of GHB (Xyrem) to Treat Narcolepsy
Expressive Aphasia Case 1
Expressive Aphasia Case 2
Pinky and the Brain Brain Anatomy Song
*Oingo Boingo Singing Gray Matter

* They Might Be Giants Singing Dinner Bell (Salivating Dogs)
* Stupid Girls Music Video

* Ramachandran Lecture The Uniqueness of the Human Brain
* PBS- Cases from Ramachandran's Notebook
* Listen to Ramachandran lecture "Phantoms in the Brain"
* Listen to Ramachandran lecture "Synapses and the Self

* Listen to Ramachandran lecture "Neuroscience-The New Philosophy"
* Listen to Ramachandran lecture on synesthesia "Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese"
* Listen to Ramachandran lecture "The Artful Brain

Brain Mind Lecture 1: Lobes of the Brain, Limbic System, Language, Consciousness
Brain Mind Lecture 2: Left Hemisphere, Vision, Audition, Language, BrainMind.com
Brain Mind Lecture 4: The Parietal Lobe, Body Image, Neglect, Phantom Limbs, etc
Brain Mind Lecture 3: Frontal Lobes: Mania, Depression, Catatonia, Confabulation
Brain Mind Lecture 5: Temporal Lobes. Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations
Brain Mind Lecture 6: Limbic System: Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Hippocampus, PTSD

Autism
* Change-Blindnexx Video Examples
* NIH Sound and Hearing Demonstrations
* NIH Genetics Activities
* NIH Neurobiology and Addiction Activities
* NIH Sleep /Biorhythm Activities
Sleep Clinic with a Couple Sleep Disorders
A very narcoleptic dog (2:07)
17 seconds of Rusty the Narcoleptic Dog
Sleep Apnea Public Service Announcement
*Pillar Procedure for Sleep Apnea and Snoring
Use of GHB (Xyrem) to Treat Narcolepsy
Student-Made Video How to Train a Blond (prinicples of learning)
Silent Films of Freud
Trial and Error Learning in Cat
* "The Office" Example of Operant Conditioning (despite the mention of Pavlov)
* Clive Wearing Update - Anterograde Amnesia
Intro to Piaget
4 min. of a Piaget film
Intro to Vygotsky
Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Monkey
4 min. of a Piaget film
Stress Video Example
Statistics Rap
Stat Rap on google
Early ECT Clip
Example Of Cognitive-Behavioral (Rational Emotive) Therapy
Example of Behavior Therapy
Example of Person-Centered Therapy

Links to Private Iowa Colleges and Universities
Links to Iowa Community Colleges
ISU-Psychology      University of Iowa       UNI Dept. of Psychology