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Teaching Resources

Iowa Teachers of Psychology
2009 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
    Join TOPSS http://www.apa.org/membership/topss_app.html 
    Other TOPSS Curriculum Resources (e.g. activities)   http://www.apa.org/ed/curriculum.html
National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology  http://www.apa.org/ed/natlstandards.html

JOIN PT@CC - Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges  http://www.apa.org/ed/pt@cc_update.html

Society for the Teaching of Psychology   http://teachpsych.lemoyne.edu/
    Become a member of STP (Division 2) AND receive Teaching of Psychology
    Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP)  http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/index.html
        OTRP Project Syllabus  http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php 

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
               A moderated discussion list for high school and college/university teachers of
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TIPS (Teaching In the Psychological Sciences)
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               and the teaching of psychology in particular. Discussions of both practical and
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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)

*Teaching High School Psychology Blog

*AP Psych Terminology Review Quizlet
Classic Articles in Psychology
*Russ Dewey's Psych Web

*Russ Dewey’s Online Psych Text and Study Guidance

*MAPPR Audio Study Aids
John Krantz's Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations
Demonstrations and Tutorials from Athabasca University
*Psych Sim Demos
*Developmental Psychology Teaching Resources

Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology     Activities and Exercises for Teaching Social Psychology     Social Psychology Network  Social Psy-Teaching Info Page
Personality Pedagogy
*Personality Pedagogy Wiki
*The Psych Files Resources for Teachers and Students
Stanford Prison Experiment Online Slideshow
Understanding Prejudice.org: Exercises and Demonstrations

*Teaching Statistics and Research Methods: A Collection of Hands-on Activities

*OTRP’s Development of Sexual Orientation Teaching Resource

*OTRP’s How to Give Psychology Away and Become a Local Media Hero

*SIOP’s Instructor’s Guide for Introducing I/O Psychology

Teaching Clinical Psychology - Resources
High School 7 Day Teaching Unit on Positive Psychology
Psychology in Popular Films Resource
Neuroscience for Kids

*Genes to Cognitions Resources

The HOPES Brain Tutorial
*Recording Neuron Activity Simulation
Mnemonics for Learning the Parts of the Brain Video
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
*Serendip's "Playground" of Interactive Exercises
*Jeopardy Powerpoint Template
*National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science - Psychology Case Studies
Correlation or Causation Assignments
*Valdosta Correlation Assignment
*Correlation Alternative Explanations Assignments
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
* Mirror Tracing Student Activity
*Tower of Hanoi
Wonderful Surveys and Interactives from BBC     Recognizing Fake Smiles     Perception Challenge
Sensation/Perception Jeopardy                  Learning/Memory Jeopardy   Condition Pavlov's Dog       
A PowerPoint "Toolbox" of Educational Games

Critical Thinking "ESP" Activity
Disabilities Activity
*In-Class Clinical Psychology Exercises

*Disorder-Treatment Matrix Homework

Time Magazine Addiction Website and Activity
*Mouse Party - Substances of Abuse Animation
Locus of Control Test      Perfectionism Test  Hardiness Test    Big 5 Test
   Type A/B Test
*Seligman's Authentic Happiness Website
A dozen Health Psych related online assessments
*Adherance to HIV Treatment Student Activity
Father Guido Sarducci - 5 Minute University Video
Rat Basketball
Online Video Archive of Scientific American Frontiers
Secret of Aging Website      Life Expectancy Calculator   The Longevity Game
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:
*Science vs Pseudoscience
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
*APA's "Psychology Matters" Site

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
*Faulty Thinking Assignment

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     Allen-Bacon Study Aids for Intro to Psych
PsychQuest - Worth Publishing Web Activities
PsychSim - Worth Publishing Web Activities
*Bernstein's Psychology NetLabs
Blair-Broeker & Ernst: Thinking About Psychology Companion Site
McGraw-Hill Study Aids for Intro to Psych
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

*Wadworth’s Atkinson & Hilard Text Site
*Myers’ Psychology Website
*Myer’s in Modules 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.)
Images for Psychology of Perception

Online Videos
If you find segments useful in the teaching of psychology please email me (walsh@uni.edu) the link.
*Zimbardo's Discovering Psychology Videos On-Demand           Companion Website

*The Brain Videos On Demand

*The Mind Videos On Demand

*Inside the Teenage Brain
*Psychology Guest Lecture Videoclips from Cengage (78 clips)
*The Psychology Channel (a growing collection of prescreened clips)
*The PsychExchange (a larger videoclip collection compiled in the UK)
*Online Videos from the Claremont School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences
Brain Plasticity After Hemispherectomy
*Knee Jerk Reflex
Gazzaniga and Split Brain Patient Joe
If you go to the "Other Videos" posted by the poster of the next segment (LupineLooPine), you will find ~500 educational segments from Discovering Psychology, The Secret Life of the Brain, The Baby Human, Human Sexes, The Human Body, BBC's Human Instinct, DNA, National Geopgraphic's The Incredible Human, and other educational series.
Zimbardo Discovering Psych Segments

17 seconds of Rusty the Narcoleptic Dog
Sleep Apnea Public Service Announcement
Use of GHB (Xyrem) to Treat Narcolepsy
NIH Sleep /Biorhythm Activities
Pillar Procedure for Sleep Apnea and Snoring

Expressive Aphasia Case 1
Expressive Aphasia Case 2
*Conduction Aphasia Case
Pinky and the Brain Brain Anatomy Song
Oingo Boingo Singing Gray Matter

They Might Be Giants Singing Dinner Bell (Salivating Dogs)

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
*HHMI  Presentation on Biological Clocks
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
Albert Bandura Talk  About  Use of Social Learning to Remedy World Problems
*Open-Mindedness/Critical Thinking

Autism
Change-Blindnexx Video Examples
NIH Sound and Hearing Demonstrations
NIH Genetics Activities
*XXXY Intersex Segment
 NIH Neurobiology and Addiction Activities
Student-Made Video How to Train a Blond (prinicples of learning)
Silent Films of Freud
Trial and Error Learning in Cat
John Watson and Little Albert
Skinner
Operant Conditioning of Pigeon
An Example of Operantly Trained Orcas
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
ECT example from the Brain Series
Gerald, a Schizophrenic from the Brain Series
Mania example from the Brain series
Example Of Cognitive-Behavioral (Rational Emotive) Therapy
Example of Behavior Therapy
Example of Person-Centered Therapy
*Stuffed Neuron at Giant Microbes

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