Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries & Information Services (LIS)-Psychology Internet Resources

PsycINFO (1967- and 1887-1966 ) abstracts the world's most significant professional literature in pyschology and its applications.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society These home pages provide information on a wide range of topics of interest to psychology students, inculding information on menbership in these professional organizations, press releases outlining the organizations’ views on topics of public interest, and links to Internet resources for psychologists.

Archives of the History of American Psychology provides information on the University of Akron's archive of print/media/realia materials from 740 psychologists and 50 organizations, materials including personal papers, manuscripts, films, audio and video tapes, instruments, test materials, books, photographs, and other materials.

Classics in the History of Psychology, developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, provides access to texts of historical importance to psychology. Organization is by author, topic, or date of publication.

Encyclopedia of Psychology, William Palya, Jacksonville State University, creates a set of links through eight topic areas that represent the best available sites organized in a manner that furthers the understanding of Psychology as a science.

National Institutes of Mental Health, Home page of the National Institutes of Mental Health, a government agency which supports basic and applied research dealing with mental health. A variety of mental health related issues can be found on this home page.

PsychCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association that indexes nine sites with psychological resources.

PsychScholar John Krantz, Hanover College, provides a gateway to partially overlapping parts. "Psychological Scholars" links to sites featuring information and resources related to mental health, research and research opportunities, online journals, teaching, demonstrations and demonstration software, and information about how to track down psychologists on the Web. "Budding Psychological Scholars" contains links to course-related resources, online research, and information about careers in psychology.

Psych Web If you are currently a psychology major or are thinking about becoming one, this home page is for you. It contains information on career opportunities in psychology, tips on writing a psychology research paper, and a comprehensive list of psychology resources available on the Internet.

The National Institute of Mental Health This federal agency supports basic and applied research dealing with mental disorders. The home page can direct you many different ways in reviewing recent developments within the field of mental health.

Psychology With Style, a hypertext writing guide by Mark Plonsky, University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point, was designed to assist psychology students in writing professional quality reports of empirical research using the publication style required by the American Psychological Association (1994).

Basic Neural Processes Tutorial This tutorial provides the user with an interactive learning experience. Activities include an on-line quiz on neural anatomy, pictorial tours of the brain, and a glossary of terms related to biological psychology.

Neuropsychology Central is a meta-source devoted to human neuropsychology, the science of brain and behavior.

Psych Scholarly Resources on the Web In addition to providing links to other neuroscience sites on the Internet, this site provides access to a number of archives containing MRI and PET images of the brain.

Sensation and Perception Tutorials These tutorials, by the author of the Basic Neural Processes Tutorial (see Psychology on the Internet, Chapter2), covers some basic concepts in sensation and perception and includes an introduction to how neurons in the visual cortex process incoming spatial information.

Digital Library Exploratorium Exhibits Several impressive demonstrations of visual phenomena can be found here. In addition to allowing the users to participate in the demonstrations on-line, this home page provides brief explanations of the phenomena. One of the demonstrations that works particularly well is that of color after images.

Sensation and Perception Tutorials These tutorials, by the author of the Basic Neural Processes tutorial (see Psychology on the Internet, Chapter 2), covers some basic concepts in sensation and perception and includes an in-depth explanation of the concept of "Receptive Fields."

Selected Projects in Cognitive Science At this University of California-Irvine site you can look at the results of several experiments dealing with visual and auditory perception and experience the stimuli used in these experiments. These experiments cover topics such as the factors affecting recognition of novel objects and the use of color in visual search. Background information about the problems being studied and explanations of the results are provided.

Consciousness

PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particulary encouraged."

Mind Tools This site provides an introduction to mnemonic techniques and information on how to use these techniques effectively. Also provided are explanations of several mnemonic devices and their use in everyday life.

The Arc, a National Organization on Mental Retardation "The Arc, a national organization on mental retardation, is committed to securing for all people with mental retardation the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, and play." The Arc’s home page is a very good source of information on topics related to mental retardation. In addition to information on topics such as community living and employment, this home page provides a question and answer introduction to mental retardation and the education of people with mental retardation.

The Emergence of Intelligence This Scientific American article by William H. Calvin discusses the relationship between language, problem solving, planning skills, and intelligence. In addition to this article, this site contains links to several on-line books and articles dealing with intelligence, language, and evolution.

Linguistic Resources on the Internet This site provides links to a number of linguistics-related sites on the Internet. Topics covered include speech and phonetics, grammar, semantics, and language acquisition.

School Psychology Resources Online This home page contains an impressive list of "links to sites of interest to the school psychology community." Included in this list are links to sites providing information on learning disabilities, mental retardation, and psycho-educational assessment and evaluation.

21st Century Problem Solving, This site (maintained by Howard C. McAllister) is "dedicated to the promotion of problem solving literacy." It presents strategies for solving math and physics problems, provides a good overview-with hypertext links to references for the cited materials-of the cognitive research on problem solving and includes an interesting discussion of the role problem solving plays in the learning process.

Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality This document, produced by the American Psychological Association, provides answers to such questions as: What is sexual orientation? What causes a person to have a particular sexual orientation? Can therapy change sexual orientation? OutProud provides additional information and resources related to gender identity, sexuality,and bisexuality.

Adolescence Directory On-Line Adolescence Directory On-Line contains several links to sites related to adolescence and secondary education. It is a valuable source of information on physical and mental risk factors that affect the lives of adolescents.

The New York Psychoanalytic Society abd Institute contains links to information about the life and work of Sigmund Freud, links to resources in psychoanalysis and related fields, and on-line articles about issues in the field of psychoanalysis.

The Jung Page was founded in 1995 to encourage new psychological ideas and conversations about what it means to be human in our time and phase.

Personal Construct Psychology This home page presents information and links relevant to the personal construct theory developed by George Kelly. It contains introductory materials on personal construct theory (including an historical overview of Kelly’s work and a biography of his life),and links to related sites.

The Personality Project This site is "meant to guide those interested in personality theory and research to the current research literature." In doing so, it provides an excellent resource for learning more about the trait approach to personality theory. The Personality Project contains extensive links to journals (including on-line journals and links to tables of contents) that publish "theory and research articles about personality." This site also provides a comprehensive list of readings on personality theory and assessment-including an on-line version of Personality Processess, a review chapter prepared for the Annual Review of Psychology, 1995. Finally, this site contains extensive links to academic and nonacademic sites related to personality research and links to professional organizations "that sponsor conferences and publish journals relevant to personality."

The Science of Obesity and Weight Control This site contains information on and links to a wide variety of topics related to obesity-including the genetic aspects of obesity, medications currently used to treat obesity, a discussion on the body’s set point, and a list of frequently asked questions about obesity and dieting.

Stress Management contains a test that assesses your vulnerability to stress.

Internet Mental Health Of all the topics covered by Psychology on the Internet, psychopathology probably has the most Internet sites focusing on relevant information. There are numerous home pages and newsgroups devoted to general topics (mental health, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric/psychological resources) and specific disorders (e.g., anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders). Access to a majority of these sites is organized in a free on-line encyclopedia of mental health-the Internet Mental Health home page.

Designed by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long, the Internet Mental Health home page is one of the most comprehensive on-line references on any topic in psychology. Internet Mental Health provides extensive diagnostic, treatment, and research information on the 50 most commonly diagnosed mental disorders. This site also contains an on-line magazine filled with articles, booklets, book reviews, newsletters, and stories of recovery. Finally, this site provides links to on-line journals relevant to mental health and links to other mental health sites-including organizations and institutions dedicated to mental health issues, university department of psychology and psychiatry, and sites concerned with specific disorders (e.g., dementia, mood disorders, and schizophrenia).

Psych Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page is an annotated guide to useful Websites, newsgroups, and mailing lists concerned with mental health, psychology, social work, and psychiatry.

The Efficacy of Psychotherapy This site contains abstracts from and references to articles on the efficacy of psychotherapy.

The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute contains links to information about the life and work of Sigmund Freud, links to resources in psychoanalysis and related fields, and on-line articles about issues in the field of psychoanalysis.

Social Psychology Network, maintained by Scott Plous, Wesleyan University, is an excellent site with links to thousands of social psychological and psychology-related resources.

This resource guide has been adapted and revised by Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, from resources provided by David Robbins, former chair, Ohio Wesleyan University Psychology Department and CHOICE reviews.


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