Psychology
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…
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 s…
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, i…
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 exp…
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 enforce…
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 test…
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…
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 re…
Illusions Gallery
Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afteri…
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.…
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.
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