Links to web sites needed for most of the course topics. Integrate this information into POSTS and class discussions.  Learn to browse and select those that enhance your arguments. Feel free to pass along discovered sites for posting on this page.

Oct 4 - Nature / Nurture: Gender Questions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqI50muxnJY&feature=PlayList&p=293FE35CE935531B&index=40
More on David Reimer from You Tube

http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n11/mente/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html
Differences between Male and Female Brains

http://www.narth.com/docs/york.html
A Gender Argument from Scientists Studying Homosexuality

http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/brainsx.html
More on Sex Differences

Oct 11 - Freud and Psychoanalysis

http://users.rcn.com/brill/freudarc.html
Can't go wrong with this link. About a million places to go Freudian.

For the layperson, Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” is the most accessible account of his global view of humankind. Here are a brief summary, an excerpt of the book itself and a short essay on his views of how we fit into our world. See if they help you cuddle up to Freudian ideas.
http://www.gradesaver.com/civilization-and-its-discontents/study-guide/short-summary/
A summary
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/freud-civ.html
An excerpt
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/civilization.html
Thoughts on Freud’s view

http://www.yellowtailrecords.com/lyrics/lyr_ub1.html#penis
Check out Freudian influenced band "The Inessential Uncle Bonsai”. You’ll
find the lyrics to their song “Penis Envy”, a sure winner on Karaoke
night. Maybe not as sweet as their better-known “Cheerleaders on Drugs”
but Freud would love it.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/freud.html
Dreams and psychoanalysis

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/friedan.htm
Feminism and Freud

Oct 18 – Psychoanalysis and the Adaptive Unconscious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind
The unconscious according to Wikipedia (which is only right sometimes, so be careful).

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/2473 
More on the adaptive unconscious

Oct 25 - B.F. Skinner and Behaviorism

http://www.bfskinner.org/
The B.F. Skinner Foundation where you can check out his autobiography, see a Skinner bibliography and even send for free reprints of the master's work. What's better than that?

http://www.sntp.net/behaviorism/skinner.htm
A quick overview of Skinner and operant conditioning. Criticism of Skinner people like Ayn Rand who calls his efforts bizarre, worthless and insignificant - like she wasn't strange herself. Did Skinner really raise his daughter in a Skinner Box? Did she later go insane? Check it out on the internet.

http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/1405.html
Photos of Skinner's grave and cool hairstyle along with a map of how to get there from here. Cheap date for impoverished students.

Nov 1 - Skinner’s Walden Two  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two
Description of Skinner’s Walden Two and links to two existing communities based on these principles

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/walden2/section14.rhtml
Walden Two Overview

http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Skinner.html
A brief summary of the principles of Skinnerean educational theory.

http://home.comcast.net/~erozycki/Walden.html
A critique of Walden Two

http://www.twinoaks.org/community/index.html
Check out the community of Twin Oaks, modeled after Walden Two

http://www.loshorcones.org./index_eng.html
Run away from home to Los Horcones, an utopian community in Sonora, Mexico founded by behavioral psychologists. Looks good except for photos of people working the fields in the hot Mexican sun. Tell your parents it's part of your education.  

Nov 15 – Paradigm Shifts and the Tipping Point

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/
Browse for more on Kuhn and paradigm shifts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point_(book)
Malcolm Gladwell’s (“The Tipping Point”) take on the contemporary and commercial meaning
of paradigm shifts

Nov 22 – Psychology as a Science (Emotion and Music)

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/gvaidya.html
A student’s take on music and emotion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm
A color coded brain on music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation
Emotional self-regulation

Nov 29 – Evidence and Junk Science

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/avalos_17_3.html
Prayer and science

http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v05/n02/esp-fact-sheet.html
ESP, paranormal and science.

Dec 6 - Recovered Memory

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus
Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of Washington has done pioneering work debunking eyewitness testimony, repressed memory and false memory syndrome. Here's her web sight.

http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/
Can traumatic events be forgotten…and then remembered later in life?

http://www.StopBadTherapy.com
One of many sites devoted to the recovered memory/false memory syndrome question.

Jan 17 – Learned Helplessness

http://www.unfetteredmind.com/articles/helplessness.php
Some thoughts on practical application of Learned Helplessness

http://www.ldonline.org/article/6154
A interesting and thoughtful site about learned helplessness and academic failure.

http://www.discord.org/~lippard/optimism.html
TAKE THIS TEST:  Learned helplessness, learned optimism and a test to see what sort of shape your head is in. Take it and write your paper. Make it relevant to the theory of LH.

Jan 18 – Attachment Theory

http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/pendry.html
An especially important link that will provide lots of information for you to consider in your POST

http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/
From a center of attachment research, The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Look around the site and take away ideas that clarify what attachment theory means.

http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19940301-000021.html
Attachment and adult relationships along with a nice summary of the basic research on attachment theory.

http://www.yourpersonality.net
Go to this link and click on the CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS QUESTIONNAIRE to take a test based on attachment theory that will tell you your "Attachment Status". Your test will be interpreted on site. Check out the various links offered to you in this site.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/parenting_bonding_reactive_attachment_disorder.htm
A nice summary of attachment disorder and its relation to resilience and therapy.

Jan 31 – Multiple Causation

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/comm-m04.shtml

http://www.skirmisher.com/kill.htm

http://www.cnn.com/US/9805/21/justice.shooting/

http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/25/school.violence.statistics/

http://fringeelement.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/inapropriate.htm
More on this topic

http://slate.msn.com/id/32621/
Figure out what this has to do with multiple causation

Feb 14 – Child Abuse

http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats/
Some useful links on the topic

http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/ceduc/parentingstyles.html
Relate the information on this site to the Oldershaw and Reid work that you have already read.