New Lecture On Pavlov
Although he won a Nobel prize for his work in explaining the processes of digestion, Ivan Pavlov is best remembered for his discovery of classical conditioning. He showed that the presence ...
Psychology Is Like Law
Psychology is like law: it uses names to organize information. When your prof says "Don't worry about the names," she's lying. She means it when she says it but she ...
New Lecture On Neo-Freudians
Karen Horney, Erikson and the other followers of Freud changed his theory without really trying. Their ideas continue on today. Check out this lecture on The Neo-Freudians.
PSYCHOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL
One Page Summaries Of Psychology
Sometimes a picture captures summarizes an entire sequence of events. It can act as a quick reminder of a setting, those present, and feelings you experienced. Similarly, with... [Read more]
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- Animal Psychology In A Nutshell
- Personality In A Nutshell
- Experimental Psych In A Nutshell
- Statistics In A Nutshell
- Counseling Psychology
BOOK REVIEWS
Karen Pryor
You’re going to love this book! If you have animals, know animals or are an animal yourself, this book is for you. It gives you the theory of Skinner in an easy to read... [Read more]
Cloniger’s Personality
The book is Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons. Aside from the awkward title, it’s not a bad book. I don’t mind being a person but I think the multiple... [Read more]
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PEOPLE IN PSYCHOLOGY
Great Minds, Great Ideas
Theories come out of people’s lives. You can’t separate the theory from the person. To understand the theories of psychology, you have to look closely at the those... [Read more]
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- Aaron Beck
- Lewis Terman
- Solon
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Pythagoras
- Thales
- Zeno
- Moses Maimonides
- Epicurus
- George Berkeley
- Thomas Hobbes
- Pierre Flourens
- Marshall Hall
- Thomas Aquinas
- Pierre Gassendi
- Mary Calkins
- Alfred Binet
- Karl Lashley
- Max Wertheimer
- Erik Erikson
- James McKeen Cattell
- Ivan Pavlov
- William McDougall
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
- Jean Piaget
- John Watson
- Carl Jung
- Gordon Allport
- Edward Thorndike
- Francis Galton
- Vladimir Bechterev
- Edward B. Titchener
- Robert Woodworth
- Rene Descartes
- Kurt Koffka
- Galen
- Edward Chace Tolman
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Oswald Kulpe
- John Dewey
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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10 Day Guided Tours
Think of yourself as being on holiday and me as your tour guide. I’ve taken several areas of psychology and made “tours” of them. Each... [Read more]
Tour of General Psychology
Take a tour of psychology. This 10-Day Guided Tour surveys the entire field. You’ll learn about personality, learning, memory, perception, and emotion.... [Read more]
Tour of Statistics
If you are taking statistics, or want an overview or review of its principles, I’ve created a 10-Day Guided Tour just for you. This tour covers... [Read more]
Tour of Personality
Personality is the study of who we are. It’s composed of many theories about how and why we behave as we do. Before we create our own theory of... [Read more]
