Item is a manuscript for James Clark's presentation at a Dalhousie History Department seminar in March 1985. The text discusses Norman Jellings Symons, a professor of psychology at Dalhousie during the 1920s who studied, taught and published articles related to Freudian theory.
Item consists of two copies of a pamphlet about the new Life Sciences Centre at Dalhousie Univeristy. The pamphlet outlines the departments and facilities in the building.
Item is a photograph of lobsters in "crowded" housing conditions in the Psychology Department. Lobsters placed in close proximity to one another will fight and frequently damage each other. Research done in the Psychology Department has attempted to determine the conditions which cause this aggression and how to eliminate it. The lobster's antennae and stalked eyes all play a role in their aggressive bouts with other lobsters. The amount of aggression shown by lobsters as been shown to be influenced by their "housing" conditions and how "crowded" they are.
Item is a photograph of students Elaine Chapman (back to the camera left), Elizabeth Baker (back to the camera right), at the back of the room Louise Cook a member of the CCAVAW communications-education committee, students Karen Higginbotham, Margot Sundquist and Dr. Ed Renner who assigned the students the project for work in their course, Community Psychology. The four students were studying rape and rape relief for a course they met twice a week in the psychology wing of the Life Sciences centre.
Item is a photograph of a Sable Island horse nibbling at the sparse vegetation. Sable Island horses ancestors arrived from Spain in the eighteenth century. Photograph taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person giving a seal pup its daily ration of vitamins stuffed inside a fish in the Department of Psychology. Seal pups that are used in psychological research are fed special diets to maintain good health.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person using a tachistoscope. The tachistosope is a basic tool in visual research and is used to present visual stimuli for very brief durations as short as a few milliseconds.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person using engineering equipment in psychological research. The transit in this photograph tracks buoys towed by scuba divers in experiments on underwater navigation.
Item is a photograph of paradise fish. Psychologists study the behavior of many animals, including the aggressive displays of species such as these paradise fish.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person using a small computer in the Psychology Department. Small computes are used extensively in psychological research to control experiments and to analyze data.
Item is the photograph of an unidentified person demonstrating the bite bar apparatus in the Psychology Department The bite-bar is used to hold the person's head in precise alignment with a light source.
Item is a photograph of of Judy Heyashi (acting Director of Counselling and Psychological services of the Career counselling workshop) and other unidentified representatives from counselling, manpower, business administration, sociology and part time studies attending a career counselling workshop in January of 1979.
Item is a photograph of John Wright, graduate student Dean Renouf and Psychologist Dr. Henry James constructing an A-frame building for research and dwelling on Sable Island. Photographs taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person staining brain sections to make neural structures visible under the microscope in Dalhousie University's Department of Psychology.