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	Click below to access the Revised Higher Psychology Learning Suite For students and teachers doing DF5K 12 Higher Psychology: Understanding the Individual DF5L 12 Higher Psychology: Investigating Behaviour DF5M 12 Higher Psychology: The Individual in the Social Context

Psychology art gallery. Unique optical
illusions and impossible figures

Gerard Keegans Psychology Greetings

Free e-cards to send to all your friends

Games and Puzzles Area

We have lots of puzzles, and more games coming soon, so much so that we have opened up a new area especially for these.

Includes Hangman, Crosswords (printable and interactive), and Word Search.

Click here to go to the Games and Puzzles Area

Quizzes
here are various quizzes from each section of the site. Have fun!

Psychoanalytic Approach Quiz
Behaviourist Approach Quiz
Cognitive Approach Quiz
Biological Approach Quiz
Humanistic Approach Quiz

Big Approaches Quiz (50 questions!)

Mind Maps
here (will be) various mind maps for each section of the site. This is a powerfull review method. for more information I highly recomend, the best book any student could have, Tony Buzan's 'Use Your Head'.

Psychoanalytic Approach Mind Map

Can you put into words, what you think you know?

Check out our innovative new notion, a psychology wiki site.

Click here for more information

Key Theorists and Theories in Psychology - Psi Cafe

http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/index.htm
(close the new window that opens, when you wish to return here).

Complete Translation Services - The Psychology of Language
http://www.completetranslation.com/psychology.htm
(close the new window that opens, when you wish to return here).

Click on 'All Our Yesterdays (below) To Find Out What Happened Today In The History Of Psychology (close the new window that opens, when you wish to return here).

So you think you know your psychologists?
Click on: Pictures At A Psychology Exhibition and discover if you do!

Applications of Psychology: A.I.
Perhaps you have seen the film A.I. by Steven Speilberg ? A.I. is an application of psychology in computing. To experience this click on ALICE below
Click here and chat to an A.I. called ALICE.

Featuring
Keegan's Psychological Cartoon Gallery

What Price Our Past Experience? On 16th November 2003 BBC 2’s Top Gear reported on just how much people were prepared to pay for personalised number plates. Why do you think someone wanted the one below? How much do you think they paid for it? Click on VI4 GRA to find out!

Altered images
Sometimes it is important that signs are understood by anyone, no matter what language they speak (a classic example is the instructions given onboard aircraft telling you what to do in an emergency). In order to do this, diagrams can be made which will do the same job as the written word; provided of course they are not in anyway Ambiguous. Check out this site for some ambiguous examples:

(Please note we in no way responsible for the content of external sites. This Link will open in a new window. To return to this site; simply close it's window.)
http://www.nirvani.net/misc/emergency/

Try The Sleekit Smile Test (!) At:
http://www.absquatulate.com/2004/02/interactive_psy.html

Get Interactive With A Human Brain At:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/organs/brainmap/index.shtml

Interactive Stroop Tests from york.ac.uk

Test 1 - Color Test
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/demos/stroop/colortest.swf

Test 2 - Psychology
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/demos/stroop/psychology.swf

Test 3 - Stroop
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/demos/stroop/stroop.swf

Excellent applications of psychological concepts
Click on links below - But remember to come back again! (they will of course open in a new window)

Closure
Subliminal Perception
Serial Position Effect
Positioning
Brand Equity
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Stimulus Generalization and Discrimination
Schedules of Reinforcement
Vicarious Learning
Attribution Theory
Latent and Manifest Motives
Social Comparison
Self-Concept
Central and Peripheral Processing (ELM)
Product Placement in TV and Film
Ritual Situations
Information Search and the Internet
Customer Loyalty Programs

Do The Keegan Stress Test And Cheer Yourself Up!

To find out how stressed you are please click on the link below. Here you will find two identical animals. The more differences you can see between them, the more highly stressed you are. You must obviously be working too hard!!

Stress Test

For the more sombre minded amongst you, don't take this seriously. Like some of my 2003 HND Social Science students at Kilmarnock College! Milgram rules OK.

Perception: Senses, Gestalten And Previous Past Experience.

Aocrcdnig to rceent rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinavetisy, it deosn’t mettar in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are splet. The olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses but we can slitl raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae of our ifnromatoin prcoess cllaed pcreetpion, whree uinsg semces, getslaten and past expreiwnce we dno’t raed ervey iteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig, but nat adivesd in an eaxm!

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