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Psychology Studies & Experiments   Evaluations, summaries and guides to a vast range of psychology studies and experiments. Ideal for psychology students and tutors.

Altruism in Animals and Humans   Why Do We Help Other People? When Darwin introduced his theory of natural selection - often referred to as 'survival of the fittest' - he revolutionized and crystallized thought and theory in regards to how traits evolve in species.

Aversion Therapy  Aversion therapy uses the behavioral approach principles that new behavior can be 'learnt' in order to overcome addictions, obsessions or, as demonstrated in Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, violent behavior.

Erikson's Stages of Human Development  Erik Erikson's theory on stages of human development

Flooding  If you jumped out of a plane, would you overcome your fear of heights?

Behavioral Psychology  behavioural psychology, behaviorism, behaviourism

Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs  What motivates humans? Maslow's heirarchy pyramid explains.

Brain Explorer  Discover what each part of your brain does and how it functions with the new interactive Brain Explorer.

Evaluation of the Biological Approach  Can the Biological Approach explain our behavior? Decide for yourself with the advantages and drawbacks of this approach.

How Drugs Affect Us: Cells  How do drugs that affect our mood (for example, Prozac for depression) and the way we behave work?

Cerebellum

Headaches

Biological Disorders

ECT  Introduction to Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT), how it is used today and an evaluation.

Frontal Lobe

Biological Approach  Biological Approach articles, research evaluations and outlines (section index).

Biological Approach Introduction  Introduction to the Biological Approach in psychology. Includes an explanation of, and evaluation of the approach.

Lobotomy  Can removing parts of the brain via a lobotomy cure mental illnesses? Read an evaluation of this controversial treatment.

Dopamine

Serotonin

Occipital

Parietal

Stem

Temporal

Cognitive Approach (Psychology)  Introduction to the cognitive approach in psychology. Explanation and evaluation of this approach.

Psychology Reading Test  Take the psychology reading test and see what cold reading could say about you

Cold Reading Explained  What is cold reading and what's the psychology behind it?

Animals: Body Language Course

Body Language Course

Body Language Course

Body Language Course

First Impressions: Body Language Course

Further Reading: Body Language Course

Hidden Messages: Body Language Course

Body Language Course  Master the art of reading body language with this exclusive online course

Keeping them interested: Body Language Course

Keeping them interested: Body Language Course

Introduction to the Body Language Course

Body Language Course

Kinesis: Body Language Course

Lying: Body Language Course

Posture: Body Language Course

Body Language Course

Handshake: Body Language Course

Smile: Body Language Course

Speak: Body Language Course

Speaking: Body Language Course

Walking: Body Language Course

Watching Body Language: Body Language Course

Eye Reading (Body Language)  What someone's eyes can tell you about what they're thinking.

Effective Communication

Historical Pseudo-science: Face reading

Reading Eyes - Historical Pseudo-science

Reading Foreheads- Historical Pseudo-science

Reading Mouthes - Historical Pseudo-science

Face Shapes - Historical Pseudo-science

Flirting

Flirting and Body Language

Handshakes

Body Language

Introduction to Body Language

Non-verbal Communication

Body Language and How to Read it  Master the art of reading body language with this exclusive online course

Self Image Body Language

Aspects of our Self Image

Self Image Formation

Telling the truth from Body Language

How to Interpret Your Dreams  How to interpret dreams, remember the dreams you experience better and uncover the psychoanalytic meaning behind the themes of dreams.

Dreams Dictionary  Find out what your dreams mean. Psychologist World's Dream Dictionary has over a thousand entries on kinds of dream.

Dreams and Sleep  All about dreams. Dreams articles and more.

Why do we dream?  We only remember as few as 5% of our dreams, but do they have a role beyond surreal experiences during the night?

Attraction

Emotion Guide

Emotions

Love and Emotion

Types of Love

Anxiety Emotion

Envy Emotion

Guilt Emotion

Hate Emotion

Jealousy Emotion

Love Emotion

Narcissism Emotion

Pride Emotion

Self Pity Emotion

Vanity Emotion

Evaluation of Freud  Advantages and criticism of Freudian theory.

Free Association  The technique used by Freud in his treatment of clients.

Freudian Personality Type Test  What's your personality type? Find out with this test.

Personality Types (Friedman & Rosenman)  Personality types according to Freidman and Rosenman.

Personality Type Test

Freud  Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a leading thinker in psychology. Psychologist World takes a look at his theories and explanations of personality development.

Introduction to Freud  Who was Freud and why was he so influential?

Neo-Freud  What movement came out of Freudian theory?

Neo-Freudian Psychologists  Proponents of neo-Freudian theory.

Psychosexual theory  Freud's dubious reputation for sexually-oriented theories on our behaviour was confounded by his theory of psychosexual development.

Graphology

Introduction to Graphology

What margins say

What writing size says

Influence

Asch: Social Influence, Conforming in Groups  The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.

Authoritarian Personality  How Theodor Adorno's F-scale aimed to identify fascism and authoritarian personality.

Authority  Adorno's F-Scale revisited.

Brainwashing  Brainwashing, its origins and its use in Cults and media.

Famous Left Handers  Information on famous left handed people.

Handedness  What makes us left handed? Evolution from war, brain hemispheres or something else.

Personality and Influence  Area on human personality, how it affects our health, influencing people, and personlity tests.

Language  How the words we use and media language affect our thinking.

Five Factors Test  Test your personality across five factors.

Openness to Experience Test  Are you a daredevil or a hermit? Find out with this online test.

Extroversion Test  Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Test yourself.

How Agreeable Are You?  How agreeable are you? Take the online test.

Are You Neurotic? Test  Find out if you're neurotic with our free test.

Conscienciousness Test  How conscienciousness are you? Test yourself.

Social Influence  What causes us to obey to authority figures such as police, teachers and politicians and why do people conform to social norms?

Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment  Explanation of Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiement, how it was conducted and what we can learn from it.

Subliminal Advertising  How subliminal advertising has been used to influence the public, including examples.

Agoraphobia  Information on agoraphobia.

Anti-Psychiatry  Information on the anti-psychiatry movement

Anxiety Treatments Drugs

Psychotherapy for Anxiety

Collyer Brothers

What Causes Depression

What is Depression?

Introduction to Depression

Depression Drugs

Depression Psychotherapy

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Issues

Narcolepsy  narcolepsy

OCD Case History

Criteria for OCD

What is OCD?

Overcoming Phobias - Self Help Guide

Phobias

Post traumatic stress disorder

Schizophrenia

Causes of Schizophrenia

Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Historical Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Issues

Social Phobias

Specific Phobias

Anti-Psychiatry

Behavioral Approach  The behavioral approach is based on the concept of explaining behavior through observation, and the belief that our environment is what causes us to behave differently or suffer illnesses.

Biological Approach

Issues

Synesthesia

Truth Drugs

Memory and Chewing Gum  How research at two universities found memory recall can be improved by chewing gum.

Memory and Association  Has someone you know come up to you in the street, and try as you might, you just could not remember this person's name? Put Names and Faces together and don't forget names again with this associative memory technique.

Conditioning Introduction  What is conditioning? What Pavlov's dogs experiment teaches us about how we learn.

Craik & Lockhart (1972) Levels of Processing Theory  Traditional theories of memory segmented human memory into different stores ­ for example, the multi-store model with sensory, short-term and long-term stores. Find out how Craik & Lockhart's Level's of processing theory opposes this.

Craik & Tulving (1975) Levels of Processing  Craik & Tulving wanted to test whether the level of processing affected how well we remember information. Read an explanation and evaluation of this research.

What affects Classical Conditioning?  Issues affecting classical conditioning.

Flashbulb Memory  Where were you on September 11th? Brown & Kulik (1977) described memories such as this as flashbulb memories.

Memory and Food  How food and exercise can affect how well you remember.

Forgetting  Why do we forget? Find out in this fascinating article.

Hypnosis  How hypnosis can help improve our memory.

Human Memory - Theories, Improvement and Tests

Luria Method  A method for remembering lists of information using stories.

Millers Magic Number  How many pieces of information can you remember? Miller's Magic Number, most likely.

Mnemonics - Memory Improvement  Remember better using the sounds of words.

Pegword Method - Memory Improvement

Multistore - Memory  How does our memory function? Find out the stages of remembering.

Retentive Method - Memory Improvement

Memory Test  Test your short-term memory with this online feature.

Psychology Articles Index  Full psychology articles and topics index covered on Psychologist World

Working Memory Model  A theory on how our memory 'works' to remember things in different ways.

Color Perception

Meaning of Color

Perception

Personality Plus

Freud

Psychologists

Jung

AS Psychology Revision

Psychologists

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Sleep Deprivation

Sleeping Disorders

Sleep and Dreaming

Stages of Sleep

Anger Test  This test will see how you react in stressful situations.

Exam Tips  Cope with stress at exam time better with these stress management tips.

Fight or Flight Response  How the Fight-or-Flight response explains stress.

Stress  Stress psychology articles and self-assessment tests.

Karoshi  What happens when stress gets the better of us?

Stress Management  How stress management works.

Stress Test  Take the stress test and measure your stress levels.

What is Stress?  An introduction to stress.

Personality & Psychology Tests  Test your personality and psychological make-up, including anger and stress levels and personality type.

Treatments

Openness to Experience Personality Test  Test your Openness to Experience with this personality test.