Psychology Subject Guide

Psychology Subject Guide Contents

Scope and Introduction

Getting Started

 Reference Resources

Research Guides

Electronic Databases & Indexes

Journal Titles

Library of Congress Call No. & Subject Headings

Related Subject Guides

Online Research Guides

Psychology Related Web Sites

 Related Web Sites

Professional Associations & Organizations

Test Instruments and Measurements

Miscellaneous

Professional Associations & Organizations

American Psychological Association

http://www.apa.org/

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. Retrieved 9/6/05 from http://www.apa.org/about/

APA's Professional Divisions

http://www.apa.org/about/division.html

There are 53 professional divisions in the APA. This site provides a complete list of the 53 divisions as well as a list of the divisions organized by topic area.

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

http://www.acnp.org/

American Psychoanalytic Association

http://www.apsa.org/

American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

http://www.apa.org/apags/

American Psychological Society

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/

Animal Behavior Society

http://www.animalbehavior.org/

Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy

http://www.aabt.org/

Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology

http://www.aaasponline.org/index.php

Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists

http://www.atss.info/

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

http://www.cogneurosociety.org/

International Society for Comparative Psychology

http://www.comparativepsychology.org/

International Society on Infant Studies

http://www.isisweb.org/

National Association of School Psychologists

http://www.nasponline.org/information/links_state_orgs.html

North Carolina School Psychology Association

http://ncschoolpsy.org/

Parapsychological Association

http://www.parapsych.org/

Psychometric Society

http://www.psychometricsociety.org/

Society for Consumer Psychology

http://fisher.osu.edu/marketing/scp/

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

http://www.spsp.org/

Society for Psychophysiological Research

http://sprweb.org/~spr/

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Test Instruments and Measurements

Buros Center for Testing http://www.unl.edu/buros/

Provides information on locating tests, test reviews, or test publishers. Also includes a subject index for quickly locating tests in a specific subject area.

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements http://www.unl.edu/buros/bimm/index.html

The Buros Institute provides critical analysis of measurement instruments and tests through the publication of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print series.

Buros Institute for Assessment Consultation and Outreach http://www.unl.edu/buros/biaco/index.html

BIACO serves individuals and programs who develop and use proprietary testing and measurement tools by providing independent oversight, psychometric evaluation, independent research, assessment literacy training, and technical consultation.

FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests

http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html

APA neither sells nor endorses testing instruments, but it does provide guidance in using available resources to find psychological tests.

Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams

National Cancer Institute

http://cme.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections.asp

This free, web-based course presents information about the rights and welfare of human participants in research. The two-hour tutorial is designed for those involved in conducting research involving human participants. It satisfies the NIH human subjects training requirement for obtaining Federal Funds. You will have the option of printing a certificate of completion from your computer upon completing the course.

Test and Measurement Resources Subject Guide

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/tests/

From NCSU Libraries this library guide answers FAQs about tests and measures.

Test Instruments and Measures

http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/focusoninstruments.cfm

From the Health Sciences Library at UNC-CH. A guide to locating information about test instruments and measures.

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Miscellaneous

Classics in the History of Psychology

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/what.htm

Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.

UCSC Perceptual Science Lab

http://mambo.ucsc.edu/

The Perceptual Science Laboratory is engaged in a variety of experimental and theoretical inquiries in perception and cognition.

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