Miller's Seven Plus or Minus Two Experiment

The Classics in the History of Psychology include a copy of George A. Miller's invited address to the Eastern Psychological Association detailing his studies on the limits of memory. The talk entitled "The Magical Number Seven, Plur or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information" was later published in the Psychological Review.

The article might provide an ideal opportunity to not only discuss Miller's findings, but also the various ways scientists present their research findings.

Miller's article can be found at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/ For additional information on Miller's research on memory go to http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/magical_number_seven.html

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Is Psychology a Science?

In one of my internet searches I came across this article as required reading for a college course and was intrigued by the title. I will be very honest and say, as the school year is just starting, I have only had the time to scan the article and was hoping someone on the blog might be more familiar with it and could add a comment or two. I could see the author's premise might prove to be an interesting starting point for a class discussion.

Go to http://vps.arachnoid.com/psychology/ for the full article.

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Experimental Resources.com

Experiment-Resources.com is a website detailing scientific method, research and experiments. The site includes almost every aspect of psychological research, including statistics and writing research papers, with descriptions of some of the most famous social psychological experiments including:

• Milgram's Obedience study
• Zimbardo's Prison Study
• Asch's Study on Conformity
• Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment
• Helping Behavior Experiment

In addition to the above experiments, psychology students might want to check out Mendel's study with peas and identical twin studies in the biology section.

While it does not appear the website is sponsored by any academic institution or organization, the limited sections I explored appear to be accurate and well written. Please feel free to leave your impressions of the site in the comments section.

The site can be found at http://www.experiment-resources.com/index.html

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