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Student Legacies
These pages represent an ongoing legacy of our Psychology Majors at Sweet Briar College. Each graduating major leaves behind a small piece of work relevant to the discipline for other students. Legacies are organized by topic.

 
Case Studies
Temple Grandin: The mystery of autism Susan Bobb '00
Case study of H.M. Kristi Chatham '00
Genie the wild child Katie Cesarz '00
Andrea Yates Katie Curling '03
Dissociative Identity Disorder: A case study Kim Schmidt '01
Disciplines
Humanism Alison Cooper '00
Applications of learning theory Emily Harris '02
Industrial-organizational psychology Sarah Patterson '01
Disorders
A DSM-IV look at Sesame Street Melissa Bellan '00
Agnosia Nicole Redwine '01
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Meg Eubanks '01
Asperger's Syndrome Gilli Long '03
Synesthesia Heather Tinnell Ramsey '01
A DSM-IV look at Pooh (Whinny the ... ) Cookie Williams '03
History
The women of psychology: Calkins, Wooley, & Hollingworth Sarah Barrett '04
Phrenology Vanessa Corry '01
Psychophysics: Weber, von Helmholtz, & Fechner Leah Davis '04
Sir Francis Galton Stephanie Gleason '04
Dorathea Dix Quinn Smith Hall '03
Kurt Lewin Anna Nicolaisen '04
Rationalism: Descartes & Kant Anne Oakes '04
Empiricism: Locke, Bacon, & Hume Megan Owens '04
Tolman & Skinner Stacy Patteson '04
Alfred Binet Kassie Rentz '04
Thorndike & Watson Sascha Rogers '04
Ebbinghaus Mary Gordon Seay '04
Wilhelm Wundt Karen Stanley '04
William James Emily Suchta '04
Issues
The right to refuse medication: Executing the mentally ill Blaithin MacMahon '03
Sandy Bem's sex role debate Anya Moon '02
Self-conceptions from childhood to adolescence: A brief experiment Chantal Yavari '02
Research
Little Albert Claire Affleck '03
Bystander intervention Jenn Dixon '01
Stanley Milgram Jessica McCloskey '01
Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory Elizabeth Parker '01
Theorists
Biography of Anna Freud Lorna Adair '02
Biography of Alfred Adler Andrea Fulgham '00
Biography of Erik Eriksin Jessica McComas '00
Biography of Gordon Allport Jan McDougal '01 
Carol Gilligan Danelle Philbrook '03
Biography of Karl Rogers Maureena Robertson '00
Abraham Maslow Melinda Liddell '03
Biography of Anton Mesmer Meredith Taylor '01
Biography of Maria Montessori Laurie Wood '00
Treatments
Music therapy Sarah Canovaca '03
Electroconvulsive therapy Allison Clark '01
Montessori methods Becky Follin '03
Art therapy Rachel Heller '03
Equine assisted psychotherapy Alicia Roddy '02