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Link "Cultural Psychology" - Online Course by The Saylor Foundation

This is a link to an online course on Cultural Psychology. The course reviews the cultural, community, and ecological factors that play a role in...

Anthropology, sociology, Society, Culture, Psychology, Emotion, motivation, development, Morality view
Link "Dopamine: the two-faced molecule behind addiction and Parkinson's disease". Short documentary

This short documentary presented by Prof. Fred Toates of the Open University, explores the role of dopamine in human behaviour, specifically in...

addiction, Psychology, dopamine, reward, stimulus, Parkinson's disease, bipolar disorder, mania view
Link "Industrial/Organizational Psychology" - Online Course by The Saylor Foundation

This is a link to an online course which introduces the topics of industrial/organizational psychology, or the application of psychological...

Psychology, industrial psychology, organizational psychology, organisational psychology, I/O psychology, workplace, psychology in the workplace, Employment, recruitment, Evaluation, employee, satisfaction, motivation, commitment, leadership, groups, teams view
Link Asch's Conformity Experiments

Link to Solomon Asch's conformity experiments which demonstrate  peer pressure of conforming to the group, resulting in participants giving an...

Psychology, conformity, ethics, experiment, social psychology view
Link Attention

What does ‘attention’ mean? This link to the Open University unit on attention attempts to unravel the mysteries of the field of attention and ...

attention, cognitive, distract, memory, Psychology, sounds, images, stimuli view
Link Classical conditioning

A learning object produced for the X4L Colossus Project. It discusses Pavlov's discovery of classical conditioning when working in his laboratory...

Animal Behaviour, Learning, Pavlov, Conditioning, Psychology view
Link Data Handling and Spreadsheet Skills - Focus on Psychology Online Tutorial

This is a link to an online tutorial by Rebecca McCready at Newcastle University. It covers a range of tools and techniques using MS Excel to...

Psychology, research methods, research, Research projects, data handling, data view
Link Economics and Psychology

The course integrates psychological insights with economic models of behaviour. This helps in uderstanding the limitations of economic models of...

Economics, Developmental biology, Psychology view
Link Elizabeth Loftus on Eyewitness Testimony

Professor Elizabeth Loftus discusses the unreliable nature of eyewitness testimony and describes her groundbreaking research on eye witness...

Eye-witness testimony, memory, Cognition, Loftus, Psychology view
Link Expertise - Expert Performance and Practice

This link is to an article which is an updated exercpt from Ericsson (2000). It evaluates the research on expertise, which refers to the...

Cognition, Learning, memory, Psychology, expertise view
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