Humanistic Psychology Overview
Explains what this 'Third Force' is, how it originated, and what it's impact is on the field of psychology. Includes methods of inquiry, psychotherapies, and links to additional reading.
allPsych
Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
Left vs. Right - Which Side Are You On?
Offers a test to find out which brain hemisphere is dominant and what that means. Includes logical vs. intuitive, sequential vs. random, and symbolic vs. concrete processing.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Research paper discusses various studies into what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Includes existence, relatedness, growth, introversion, extroversion, and divergence in theories.
Illusions Gallery
Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
The Emotion Home Page
Explore the different types of emotional research. Includes theories from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
Epsych: Journeys in Mind
Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
Spirituality and Western Psychology
Explores the studies of transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Includes Maslow's hierarchy, subjective experience, social forces, brain functions, and the unconscious mind.
NASA.gov: Cognition Lab Tutorials
Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.
Novita Kids: What’s Psychology all About?
Information about psychology, what it is and what other children say about it.
Introduction to Learning: Classical Conditioning
Explains how automatic responses to smells, sounds, and situations develop. Includes Pavlov's dogs, the Skinner box, and behavior modification.
Mind Survey
Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.
Classics in the History of Psychology
Offers full texts of documents significant in the history of psychology by author or by topic. Includes ancient, medieval/renaissance, and modern thought; behaviorism, cognition, intelligence testing, personality, and social psychology.
The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century
Online book outlining the current state of knowledge and activity. Includes coping and health, personality, intelligence and cognition, sensation and perception, human development, and psychopathology.
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
As the defense attorney, review testimony and decide if your client is the victim of mistaken identity. Includes links to cited sources and questions to assist in making a decision.
Visual Cognition Lab
Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
Racism and Psychology
Explores what prejudice and racism are, how prejudices and stereotypes develop, and why it's important to talk about these issues. Includes ten things you can do.
Interference: The Stroop Effect
Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
Intelligence
Learn what it is and how it can be measured. Includes male versus female brains, whether people are born brainy, what emotional intelligence is, and if IQ tests are accurate.
The Science of Love
Explores the three stages of love. Includes changes in the brain, how looks and smells affect choices, the science of flirting, and how feelings can be even stronger in teens.
The Mind
Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
Beautycheck
Details a research project at two universities in Germany on facial attractiveness. Includes why some faces are considered more attractive, average faces, morphing of images, and social perceptions.
The Child Development Website
Read about theories from Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson. Includes different stages, phases, and subphases from each theory.
Color Matters
Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
Criminal Profiling Research
Swiss criminologist discusses what profiling is, how it's done, criminal types, and case analysis. Includes articles, research, news and updates, links to international law enforcement agencies, and discussion board. [English and Deutsch]
Extrasensory Perception
Provides synopsis of psychological research from a professor of psychology. Includes whether it really exists, claims of ESP, perception versus pretention, and experiment results.
Psychology
Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
The Memory Exhibition
Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
Psychosocial Theory: Erikson
Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.
Being Left Handed
Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
Inference versus Observation
Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.
Correlation
Examines the relationships between variables in psychological studies. Includes an exercise in which students determine the correlation between two variables and offer possible explanations.
Thinking Creatively
Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
Frontline: What Jennifer Saw
Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, a forensic psychologist. Includes what happens to memory in a traumatic event, how juries are affected by eyewitness testimony, and why expert testimony is used in trials.
The IPIP-NEO
Tests designed to educate the public about the five-factor model of personality. Includes long and short versions, and results for extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.
Personality and Kids
Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
The Classical Rorschach
Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo's website about his classic study. Contains a 42 page slideshow with videoclips of the original experiment with Zimbardo's commentary, points for discussion, and links to related sites.
Risktaking
Discusses the psychology of taking risks. Includes what risk and risk-taking behavior are, chemical changes in the brain, how theories have changed, and psychological profiles of risk-takers.
Learning To Learn in Psychology
Seminar materials include workbooks and lectures on theories, experiments, writing, and the philosophy of science.
General Psychology
Collection of articles for use in an introductory college course. Topics include neuropsychology, sensation and perception, learning and memory, emotion, language, personality, and psychological disorders.
Personality Theories
Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.
What is a Personality/Social Psychologist?
Explains what topics are studied, scientific approach, basic and applied research, and career options. Includes educational recommendations and requirements.
Social Psychology
Explains what social psychology is and how it is used in research. Includes theories and methods, nature versus nurture, self-needs, belief systems, emotions, and collective behavior.
Psybersite
Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
PsychLab On-line
Provides real and simulated interactive psychology experiments. Includes space perception, reaction time, split-brain syndrome, and classical conditioning. [Requires free Shockwave plug-in.]
Implicit Association Test
Offers online tests of unconscious preferences between racial groups, age groups, sexuality, political candidates, and associations between gender and science or gender and career. [Requires English proficiency.]
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