Psychology Resources

[jess3254]

AN Psychology Resources

I’ve gathered some resources for psychology, and placed them under the appropriate area of study/ unit (using the study design) If you find a link that isn't relevant, let me know!! I thought it’d just be a good starting point and it could be collaborative; people could continue to add websites that they’ve found useful.

RESOURCES CONTINUED HERE

Anything which is specific to the VCE (eg. revision notes created by members, study designs or exams etc) has '#' this next to it

General
How to get a 40+ Study Score in VCE Psychology!
#VCE psychology study design

psychology dictionary
Sparknotes Psychology
APA ethics guidelines
Science daily
Ethical Issues in Psychological research
Ethics
Psychology and methodology
List of psychology websites
A complete and diverse psychology website
Psychology quizzes (has tests for many of the VCE topics)

Fun/ interesting stuff
Prisoners' Dilemma
Split brain game
The teenage brain
Sex differences in the brain
Personality test
IQ tests
The guardian: Psychology blog
Visual illusions
Personality tests
Dream analyser

Unit 1 and 2
#Unit 1 and 2 flashcards

Unit 1
Area of study 1: Introduction to Psychology
What is psychology?
Alleydog: overview of psychology
Timeline of psychology
Sub-fields in psychology
Research methods
Difference between psychologist and Psychiatrist etc
History of psychology links
Differentiating Reliability and Validity
AP Psychology powerpoint

Area of study 2: social relationships
Zimbardo's prison experiment
Milgram's obedience experiment
Obedience and authority
Perspectives on social behaviour
Qualitative and Quantitative data
Helping behaviour
The Murder of Kitty Genovese
Why did Kitty Genovese die?
Reflections of the stanford prison experiment
Prosocial and antisocial behaviour

Area of study 3: Development of individual behaviour
Developmental theories of learning
Developmental psychology - Cognition and perception
Nature vs nurture "identical strangers"
Piaget's development theories
What we learn from twins
Explanations of gender
Piaget's theory of cognitive development

Unit 2
Area of study 1: Neurons and the nervous system
Neurons, hormones and the brain
The neuron
The neuron - summary
Sparknotes: Structure of a neuron
Epsych: the neuron
Neuroscience for kids: Neurotransmitters
Hanover Psychology: Basic Neural processes Tutorial
Science-education: How neurotransmittion works
Webtech: Info on neurons and the divisions of the nervous system
Alleydog: Neuron information
Havard: Brain atlas
Neuroscience for kids: The Spinal cord
Neural grafting in Parkison's and Alzheimer's patients
Fact sheet: Motor neuron disease
How stuff works: The brain
Neuron quiz

Area of study 2: Individual differences
#Approaches to normality - powerpoint summary
Abnormality**SEE NOTE BELOW
Theories of intelligence
Mainstream science on intelligence
Theories of intelligence
Evolution of intelligence
Alleydog: Information on intelligence
IQ - genetics or environment?
Personality theories
Personality
The intelligence testing centre - tests and history
Intelligence theories
Personality information
Freud's case studies
Personality: Freud's psychoanalytic theory
Personality theories: Freud
Freud's psychosexual stages of development
Heritability
Eysenck's trait theory
Trait theory
Humanistic theory
A guide to Humanistic psychology

Area of study 3: Social attitudes
Prejudice
Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Prejudice and sterotypes powerpoint 
Prejudice links and articles
Attitudes Structure of attitudes Cognitive dissonance theory

Unit 3 and 4
#Eriny's unit 3 notes
#Unit 4 exam revision (thanks to Odette)
#Past exams
#Unit 3 and 4 practice exams
#The education Age - Psychology study advice

Unit 3
Area of study 1: Biological bases of behaviour
Brain anatomy
Lobes of the brain
#VCE Brain and nervous system revision slides
CranePsych: The Brain
The brain - summary
Probe the brain (mapping the brain)
The nervous system
The Nervous system summary
Autonomic nervous system notes
Drugs, brain and behaviour
Phineas Gage
Brain injury
Stress, coping and health
General adaptation syndrome
Stress and its effect on immunity
Types of stress
Alleydog: stress
Info on stress, health and personality types
Quicklearn: Stress
Life changes and their effects on stress
'Right brain' or 'left brain'. Myth or reality?
Hemispheric specialisation
Split brain powerpoint summary
The EEG
#Brain research methods notes
*Some of the resources for unit 2: area of study 1 may be useful for this area of study as well.


Area of study 2: Visual perception
Visual perception notes
#Visual perception revision slides
Sparknotes: vision
Visual perception - Gestalt laws
Theories of perception
Gestalt theory of visual perception
Productive thinking: the Gestalt theories
The eye
Optical Illusions
Perceptual sets

Area of study 3: states of consciousness
Sparknotes: States of consciousness
States of consciousness library
#States of consciousness notes
#sleep notes Sleep disorders
sleep stages
Wikibooks - states of consciousness
Alleydog: information on consciousness
characteristics of sleep
Wake and sleeping rhythms summary
REM sleep and dreaming powerpoint
Sleepnet: everything you need to know about sleep
Challenging states of consciousness quiz

Unit 4
Area of study 1: Memory
Human memory
Sparknotes: memory
Encoding, storage and retrieval
Memory worksheets
Memory overview
MSN Encarta: Memory
Alleydog: memory
Memory powerpoint
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Forgetting
#IvanJames' Definition Bank

Area of study 2: Learning
Learning resources
Sparknotes: Learning and conditioning
Learning and conditioning
Alleydog: information on learning and conditioning
Little Albert Study
Whatever happened to little Albert?
Pavolv's dog
MSN Encarta: Learning
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Comparison of Classical and Operant conditioning]
An introduction to classical conditioning
Components of classical conditioning
A-Level learning notes
Learning examples
Learning information

Area of study 3: Research Methods
MSN encarta: research methods
Research methods
Sparknotes: psychology research
CranePsych: Psychology research methods
How psychologists do research
Alleydog: research methods


**Slightly different terminology to what's used in VCE.
Statistical infrequency = Statistical approach
Deviation from social norms = societal approach
Failure to Function Adequately = Functioning approach
Biological = medical approach
Cultural relativism = Cultural approach
Historical approach not included.

[Eriny]

Great idea, I've stickied this topic.

[jess3254]

Just a tip,
I’ve noticed that the VCE psychology course is closely modelled on the A-Level British psychology subject structure. For instance:

Sensation and perception (A-Level) = Visual perception
Research methods = research methods
Biological bases of behaviour = brain and nervous system
States of consciousness =  States of consciousness
Learning = learning
Cognition = memory
Testing and individual differences = Individual differences (unit 2)

Etc.

The content is fairly similar in some of the topics. It’s possible you may all benefit from some free revision notes and resources for A-Level psychology floating around the Internet. (There’s tonnes of them.) Also, there is some correlation between AP psychology (advanced placement - United States system) and the VCE in terms of topics.

Jess

[jess3254]

Links and resources continued (I can't fit them in the other post because it exceeds the 2,000 word limit.)

General
Glossary of psychology terms and concepts
The brain and behaviour

Unit 1
Area of study 1: Introduction to Psychology
Eminent psychologists (Pretty advanced but very interesting for those who want to obtain further knowledge)
What is psychology? Student resource file
What is psychology? Online textbook

Area of study 2: Social relationships
Social phobia
Information on social psychology (online textbook)

Area of study 3: Development of individual behaviour
Developmental psychology research methods
Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Info on childhood development
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Developmental psychology overview

Unit 2
Area of study 1: Neurons and the nervous system
Nerve communication (advanced)
Synaptic transmission
The Human Nervous system (ONLINE TEXTBOOK)

Area of study 2: Individual differences
Academics: Personality theories
IQ to the test
Martel: Personality theories powerpoint
The trait theory powerpoint
Theory of multiple intelligences
Emotional Intelligence: what it is and why it matters
IQ scores analysis
Human intelligence (click on a psychologist to see his/her views on intelligence)
Freud's theory of psychosexual development
The id, the ego and the superego
Personality psychology (online textbook)
Humanistic information and resources
Psychodynamic information and resources

Unit 3
Area of study 1: Brain and nervous system
Pictures of the brain
Information on the Corpus Callosum
New Scientist: the human brain
The Human Nervous system (ONLINE TEXTBOOK)

Area of study 2: Visual perception
Gestalt laws
Information on visual perception

Area of study 3: States of consciousness
States of consciousness powerpoint
States of consciousness (online textbook) 
States of consciousness psychweb

Unit 4
Area of study 1: memory
Memory exploratorium
Martel: Introduction to memory powerpoint
Retrieval
Memory (online textbook chapter)

Area of study 2: Learning
Learning and conditioning
Martel: Classical conditioning (powerpoint)
B.F Skinner: Pavolv
Operant behaviour
Learning summary notes

Area of study 3: Research methods
Introduction to research methods
Lots of information on psychological research (online textbook) (you need to scroll down)

[ilovesuck]

oh wow!

this is a really comprehensive list!

very nice   will be very helpful for many students <3

[jess3254]

I have found a free online psychology textbook with many of the VCE topics:
http://www.intropsych.com/index.html

It looks like a pretty good textbook. Has very good overviews.

Hope it helps

[brendan]

omg almost as much links as me!

[jess3254]

omg almost as much links as me!

not quite yet

[username]

Didn't see this when I browsed through the list but:

http://www.nelsonpsychology.com.au

Under unit 3+4 --> Student resources, there are a heap of good things there like quizzes and stuff.

The password should be 'learning' ^_^

[ursus]

thank you so much!!
this stuff is great.
i've done most of my revision for the end of  exam now but it's good just to read over things that are written a bit differently.

[jess3254]

thank you so much!!
this stuff is great.
i've done most of my revision for the end of  exam now but it's good just to read over things that are written a bit differently.

I'm really glad you found the links useful!

[taiga]

Bump!

Though the study design may have changed, I think some of this may be very useful to you guys. (Esp The Age article). I'll weed out the expired notes links (access them via the main page)

[Camo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlhvKe6lTo Discovering psychology ep 8. Learning.

[Camo]

Resources.

Study Design
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/psychology/psychologysd2010.pdf

Research Methods.
http://pheonad.wordpress.com/psychology-era/

Unit 1 - Introduction to Psychology.

Area of Study 1 - What is Psychology?

Area of Study 2 - Lifespan Psychology.

Unit 2 - Self and Others.

Area of Study 1 - Interpersonal & Group Behaviour.

Area of Study 2 - Intelligence & Personality.

Unit 3 - The Conscious Self.

Area of Study 1 - Mind, Brain & Body.

Area of Study 2- Memory.

Unit 4 - Brain, Behaviour and Experience.

Area of Study 1- Learning.

Area of Study 2- Mental Health.

Practice Exams
2011 ATAR Notes Psychology Exam Unit 4: Psychology 2011 - ATAR-Notes Practice Exam.

[Genericname2365]

I found a 2004 multi-choice answer sheet on page 4 here (essentially the same as it is now) that you can print off for trial exams that don't supply them - I found the mid-year more time-consuming than the trials and I think having to fill in the answer sheet rather than merely circling the answer was one of the reasons that it took longer. (Perhaps this is obvious to find/already on the forum but eh.)
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/bulletin/04MAYSU1.pdf