Look in just about any psychology professor’s office and you’re bound to find something like the image above: a model mapping out a person’s “faculties” based on the bumps and dents of the skull. This type of skull study was … Read More
What are the Different Areas of Psychology?
This post is a short excerpt from my book Master Introductory Psychology Modern Approaches to Psychology The diversity of questions that psychology aims to answer necessarily requires a diversity of approaches. In attempts to answer questions on all nature of … Read More
Gina Perry’s “Behind the Shock Machine”
I recently read Gina Perry’s book Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments which offers a fascinating investigation into Stanley Milgram’s famous experiments on obedience to authority. Perry digs into Milgram’s notes, letters, and book … Read More
Counting Cards, Sending Signals
This is an activity I created to illustrate the concepts of excitatory/inhibitory stimulation and triggering thresholds using a deck of playing cards. Students form groups of 5: of these 4 students will play the roles of dendrites and one student will … Read More
Putting the Pieces Together – How to Remember Early Approaches to Psychology
This is an activity I used in my AP Psychology classes for remembering the differences between several of the early approaches to psychology. I learned this from the Instructor Resources from Schacter, Gilbert, and Wegner’s excellent textbook, and it was … Read More
Key Terms for States of Consciousness
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: States-of-Consciousness-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition René Descartes mind-body problem Cartesian Theater philosophical … Read More
Key Terms for Language and Cognition
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: Language-and-Cognition-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition B. F. Skinner Noam Chomsky language … Read More
Key Terms for Memory
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: Memory-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition encoding storage retrieval 3-box model … Read More
Key Terms for Learning Theory
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: Learning-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition learning behaviorism classical conditioning Ivan … Read More
Key Terms for Sensation and Perception
Download a free pdf of this key terms list here: Sensation-and-Perception-Key-Terms Find explanations and examples of all of these key terms and more here: Master Introductory Psychology: Complete Edition sensation transduction perception psychophysics … Read More