Alleydog.com

[Evelet]

Has anyone paid for membership on this site? I'm curious about trying it, but I want to hear other peoples opinion before I pay for it.

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Members don't see this ad.

 

[KillerDiller]

Never heard of it. After taking a look at it, though, I wouldn't give them a dime in a million years. At it's best, it looks like a site designed to help you study for undergraduate courses (utterly useless in grad school, as rote memorization is not the point of the classes). But, of greater concern, they list the "top 10 psychology graduate schools" as Adler, Alliant, Argosy, CSPP, Harvard, Northcentral, University of the Rockies, Stanford, Walden, and Yale. Excuse me while I finish laughing uncontrollably . I mean, several of those aren't even accredited. Seriously, someone should have this site taken down.

 

[Ollie123]

Yeah...it definitely doesn't look legit. Frankly, it looks more like something an undergrad slapped together to try and make a quick buck. Their website design is horrific.

The sketchy advertising and what KD mentioned above does NOT inspire confidence. I'd be wary of spending money as an undergrad, I cannot imagine a site like that having any possible utility for a grad student. Flashcards? Really?

 

[paramour]

I actually ran across this site some years ago (and I've run across it more recently when I've had a few students who tried to submit it as a reference/source).

You'd do better with an intro psych book for all the info it provides. I was then and still am not impressed.

I created and developed AlleyDog.com during the final stages of my Ph.D. program in Social Psychology. I spent five years in graduate school (first at a Master's program in Experimental Psychology in Upstate New York and then in a Ph.D. program in Richmond, Virginia) working as a student, a researcher, a teacher, and an assistant (both research and teaching). I worked as often and as effectively as possibly to learn about Psychology and one day become a professor.