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Section 3 Cognitive psychology

Key people, key theories and historical perspective

Gateway to web pages about famous figures in psychology
http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/famous.html

William James
http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html

Famous Psychologists and Philosophers
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/training_ethics/psychologists.htm

Elizabeth Loftus
http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/loftus.htm

History of Cognitive Psychology (potted biographies of influential cognitive psychologists)
http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm

Classics in psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htm

Theory into Practice - summaries of major theories in psychology
http://tip.psychology.org/index.html

• Dual Encoding theory
  http://tip.psychology.org/paivio.html
  
• Levels of processing
  http://tip.psychology.org/craik.html
  
• Information Pickup Theory (JJ Gibson)
  http://tip.psychology.org/gibson.html

Cognitive psychology experiments

Psychology Experiments on the Internet
http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html#Cognition

Visual Cognition
http://cnslab.mb.jhu.edu/experiments/

Muller-Lyer
http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/web/muellerlyer/MLframe.htm

Language experiments
http://www.language-experiments.org/

Psychology lectures

Psychology lectures on the Internet
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/students/student_courses_index.htm


Judgement and Decision Making
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Ebfmalle/jdm.html

Reasoning and Problem Solving
http://pluto.fss.buffalo.edu/classes/psy/segal/416f2001/induction/416lconcept.html#Kahneman

• Judgement under uncertainty - examples from Kahneman and Tversky
  http://pluto.fss.buffalo.edu/classes/psy/segal/416f2001/induction/Tversky.html
  

Tutorials and demonstrations

Tutorials and Demonstrations from Hanover College
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/tutor.html#Cognitive%20Psychology

Specific topics

False memories (Scientific American, September 1997, 277 (3), pages 70-75)
http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm

Memories of childhood abuse
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/mem.html

Memory techniques and mnemonics
http://www.psywww.com/mtsite/memory.html

The Skeptic’s Dictionary
http://skepdic.com/contents.html

• The gambler’s fallacy
  http://skepdic.com/gamblers.html
  
• Repressed memories
  http://skepdic.com/repressedmemory.html
  

Resources

Amoebaweb
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/


The British Academy portal
http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/bysection.asp?section=s6