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Exciting learning at Forest Hills Eastern High School! Our amazing AP Psychology teacher, Mr. Cameron Wysocki, has taken education to the next level by merging science and creativity! Students are learning about different parts of the brain by designing their own Pokémon characters and cards. After crafting their creations, they went head-to-head in a Pokémon […]

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Colors are everywhere. They can affect our perceptions and the way we react to the world around us. Our brains respond to specific colors differently, and this can influence our mood, behavior and decision-making.

Drugs and Supplements from MedlinePlus - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Search JCAHO accredited mental health, substance abuse and foster care facilities, American Hospital Directory facilities, and licensed healthcare providers.

Online CEs for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and mental health practitioners.

National-international psychological associations online.

Find Canadian provincial psychology licensing boards, application information, and rules and regulations.

Addresses, telephone numbers, and websites of state psychological associations.

Find e-mail addresses of psychologists and mental health practitioners.

Illusions of visual perception - a perceptual motion illusion.

A visual perception illusion by Edward H. Adelson.

Psychotherapy: Three approaches evaluated- Institut national de la sant� et de la recherche m�dicale.

Evidence-based psychotherapy resources for psychologists and mental health practitioners.

A brief summary of major personality theories, including trait, psychodynamic, cognitive, and humanistic theories, and typologies and taxonomies of individual differences.

American Mensa, The High IQ Society, with questions and answers on Genius by Abbie F. Salny, Ed.D.

Universal Geniuses and the Renaissance Man. Definition and examples.

Pantheon of Geniuses: The Apotheosis of Homer by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres with a legend of names of individuals depicted.

Genius: A psychologist's overview by William E. Benet, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Rank order tables of estimated IQs of 301 geniuses of the 15th-19th centuries, based on Catharine Morris Cox's The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses in Genetic Studies of Genius, edited by Terman.

Psychologist Dr. Frank Froman on neuropsychology, managed care and diagnostic nomenclature.

Psychological art, Louis Wain and the art of madness, and quotations by psychologists.

Discussion list forums of the American Psychological Association and PsyUSA.

Psychology humor featuring psychologists Gunborg Palme and Frank Froman.

Intelligence of dogs and brightest breeds by Stanley Coren, Ph.D.

Comparative intelligence of animals, cognition in animals, and most intelligent animals.

Intelligence - Definitions, controversies, fallacies, psychometric assessment and testing.

Estimated IQs of 301 geniuses of the 15th-19th centuries, based on The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses by Catharine Morris Cox.

IQ Hoaxes, including hoax IQs of George W. Bush and U.S. Presidents for the Past 50 years, plus Einstein's IQ, with commentary by Dr. William E. Benet.

Abstracts from the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Clinical Experimental Neuropsychology, and other journals about estimating premorbid intelligence.

Regression equations for estimating premorbid intelligence.

Estimating premorbid intelligence and determining change in cognition following brain injury.

Psychometrics - origins, definitions, theory, instruments and procedures.

Veterans Administration Bariatric Surgery Workgroup standards for bariatric surgery psychological evaluations - 2007.

Assessment Tools and Measures - Appendix A - Suggestions for Pre-Surgical Psychological Assessments of Bariatric Surgery Candidates - American Society for Bariatric Surgery - 2004.

American Society for Bariatric Surgery suggestions and Veterans Administration Bariatric Surgery Workgroup standards for pre-surgical psychological assessment of bariatric surgery candidates.

Psychological Procedures and Tests approved by the Division of Disability Determinations, Florida Department of Health.

Information on IQ classifications in educational and psychiatric use and classifications no longer in use.

List of psychological tests in the Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University.

Selected topics in malingering from PubMed, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Selected topics in chronic pain from PubMed, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Digests, abstracts and articles on topics in psychological testing and psychometrics, including the development of intelligence theory and testing.

Eminent psychologists of the 20th Century and presidents of the American Psychological Association.

Test developers and historical influences important in exploring, assessing and understanding human intelligence.

Geriatric rating scales for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners.

Adaptive and maladaptive behavior scales, including the Scales of Independent Behavior - Revised (SIB-R), the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, the AAMR Adaptive Behavior Scales (ABS) and the Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP).

WWI IQ test taken by 1.7 million American soldiers.

Gifted and impaired - Tests approved for evaluating students for Exceptional Student Education services, Florida Department of Education.

Personality tests approved for evaluating students for Exceptional Student Education services, Florida Department of Education.