Psychology 100

Introduction to Psychology

Welcome to Ruth Frickle's Psychology 100 web page.

About Psychology 100

Psychology 100 is a survey course, which means that we cover a very broad range of topics in psychology.  Because it is so broad, it's a challenging as well as fun class.  I am always excited to teach about the complex and diverse ways that psychology explores behavior and mental processes. 

This course prepares students to go on to 200 level psychology courses.

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Links to important class documents. 

Syllabus       

Class calendar

Hockenbury & Hockenbury, Psychology, 4th Ed.
This is a link to the website for our textbook.  In addition to the learning objectives for the chapters, there are lots of helpful study activities and practice quizzes here.

Paper #1
Instructions for the paper only.  I will give you an article to write about.

Application Papers

Interesting and helpful links     

...exploring these may enhance your understanding of course concepts.

Brain Basics
From the National Institutes of Health

The Whole Brain Atlas
From Harvard Medical School: an extensive set of MRIs of the brain showing effects of various disorders.

National Center on Sleep Disorders 
Information and self tests on sleep problems and the problem of sleep deprivation.

Negative Reinforcement University
Practice your knowledge of negative reinforcement

Milgram's Obedience Song 
Audio clips from the obedience study are combined with music for a strange effect.  It's a ShockMP3 file (no pun intended) so it requires music software.

Scientific American Video Archive
You'll need a pretty fast connection and sound to view these, but there are many very interesting videos.  Search the SA site for even more than what's on this link.

Bandura and Self-Efficacy 
S
ponsored by Emory University, an entire website dedicated to the man and this concept. 

Psych Humor

Psych fun

Homer Simpson's MRI

BONUS POINTS
If you find a link that you think is interesting, reliable and connected to course content, present it to me in writing.  If I think I can use it on this page, you will earn a bonus point.

 

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Ruth Frickle
Department of Psychology
Highline Community College
2400 S. 240th St.  MS 11-1
P.O. Box 98000 
Des Moines, WA  98198-9800

This page was last updated on June 13, 2008.