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- 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.
- allPsych - Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
- 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.
- Being Left Handed - Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
- 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.
- Color Matters - Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
- 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.
- 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]
- Epsych: Journeys in Mind - Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Illusions Gallery - Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
- 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.]
- Inference versus Observation - Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.
- 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.
- Interference: The Stroop Effect - Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
- 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.
- Learning To Learn in Psychology - Seminar materials include workbooks and lectures on theories, experiments, writing, and the philosophy of science.
- 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.
- Mind Survey - Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.
- 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.
- Personality and Kids - Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
- Personality Theories - Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.
- 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.]
- Psychology - Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
- Psychosocial Theory: Erikson - Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Child Development Website - Read about theories from Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson. Includes different stages, phases, and subphases from each theory.
- The Classical Rorschach - Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
- The Descent of Man - Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
- The Emotion Home Page - Explore the different types of emotional research. Includes theories from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
- 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.
- The Memory Exhibition - Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
- The Mind - Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
- 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.
- Thinking Creatively - Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
- Visual Cognition Lab - Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
- 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.
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