Thursday, January 29, 2009

Links to check out-Therapy and Social Psych

Check out the resources below. People who check these out and make constructive comments about at least two of them in the comment section of this blog post will receive extra credit.



Atypical Antipsychotic Medications

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25569107/bitter_pill



http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/socialpsych/index.htm



Court TV video: Human Behavior Experiments
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5444760
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/human_behavior_experiments/index.html
http://www.sundancechannel.com/film/?ixFilmID=7085



Watch it on google video—follow this link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bv_ky5cBVNg


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/arts/television/01huma.html?ex=1306814400&en=92f86522d28c6137&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss



Cognitive Dissonance
o e.g. Incoming Frosh to HS or college—former concept of self as student and realities of next level
o http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm
o http://www.answers.com/topic/cognitive-dissonance
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
o http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm



Video: learner.org: Constructing Social Reality
http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html


Jane Elliott links
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
http://www.trainingabc.com/xcart/customer/search.php?substring=jane+elliott
http://www.janeelliott.com/
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/sep05/elliott.html
http://www.oprah.com/tows/vintage/past/vintage_past_20010720_b.jhtml

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Learn from the best at MIT

Check out this link:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

If you love to learn, you will love this site with links to all sorts of different courses. Check it out!