Although this is interesting, I think that I would be more interested in having
them provide a search box in which I can fill out criteria, as some other
websites do, such as 2-syllable nouns and ask them to list the 100 most and
least frequent.
I don't see a way to do this; do any of you see
Hi
The google database does not lend itself to item selection in the way described
by Annette as do numerous other smaller datasets. I think it is perhaps
primarily useful for seeing the historical use over time of different terms.
Entering repressed memory, recovered memory, false memory,
This is fun.
Try dumping in some terms from psychology like cognitive, cognition, and
behaviorism
or a technical term like autobiographical memory (it will search phrases
as well as single words).
Useful to set the beginning date at 1900 for this.
Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.
Director
Center for
Hi
I agree with Claudia ... it is fun and informative. One thing to watch
is capitalization, depending on what one is searching.
Searching terrorist, terrorism shows how these terms have markedly
increased in use in past few decades.
Searching Psychology, Biology, ... and some other sciences
This database would be informative for students studying the history of
particular psychological concepts.
Based on my research interests, I entered the words [animal magnetism,
Mesmerism, hypnotism, hypnosis], and with a little tweaking of dates and
smoothing found interesting usage
