Psychologists use statistics? Scholars investigate the research behind the methodology of statistical analysis. Using hands-on practice, case-studies, and scatterplots, they complete various tasks to understand the very roots of high...

Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...

"Behaviorism--The modern Note in Psychology" written by John B. Watson in 1925 was an important paper in the development of Behaviorism in Psychology. It is reproduced in full here.

This guide offers an overview of the field of psychology. Topics include human behavior, branches of psychology, and what psychology is. Archived.

Discusses Behaviorism as a philosophy and a field of psychology. Includes information on what behaviorism is, and the types of behaviorism. Also includes links to additional information.

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are...

Classical article by John B. Watson (one of the founders of Behaviorism) defining his views on Behaviorism.

Complete and comprehensive Social Psychology learning module in which students learn about human social behavior through participation in interactive activities, videos, reading and writing assignments, review and assessment.

Classic study by B. F. Skinner concerning learned behavior in a pigeon.

An overview of psychological therapies for depression are examined: psychological, behavioral, psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive, and cognitive-behavioral.

Comparative analysis of Behaviorism and more clinical psychological theories of behavior. Behavioristic arguments, criticisms of Behavioristic arguments, and Behavioristic responses are presented. References, suggested readings and...

The first section of Chapter 12 of a textbook called Beginning Psychology. Discusses at length psychological disorders, the challenges in defining abnormal behavior, the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

Chart detailing Behaviorism as a school of thought in Psychology. Organized into three sections: Behaviorist Arguments, Criticisms of Behaviorist Arguments, and Behaviorist Responses to Criticisms.

Test your speed in this game reviewing brain and behavior terms and concepts.

Study what roles genetics and the environment play in human behavioral development. This is a learning module which includes the reading assignment, a quiz, and PowerPoint program.

Explains the many different categories of abnormal behavior, and the subcategories in each group.

This site examines the overlap between the behavioral sciences (psychology and sociology). It compares the approaches of psychologists and sociologists in researching behavior. An outline of the areas examined in social psychology is...

Chapter 3 of a psychology textbook. It explains how abnormal behavior patterns are classified, the DSM, standards and methods of assessment, and the sociocultural and ethnic factors that may need to be taken into account during...

Summarizes a textbook chapter on abnormal psychology, providing an overview of different approaches to psychological disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used in diagnosis, and characteristics of...

A number of major professional behavior analysis journals can be accessed through this gateway. Recent issues as well as back issues are available and can be downloaded in PDF format. Several of the journals, e.g., Journal of Behavior...

Students explore the way abnormal behavior is defined and classified through this virtual learning course in Abnormal Psychology and Treatment. Interactive media, video, assginments and instructional materials.

Modern comments on the classic paper delivered by John B. Watson in 1913. The paper, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" is considered by the psychological profession as the "behaviorist manifesto" and lays much of the foundation...

A historical and factual overview of Humanistic Psychology as a Contemporary School of Psychology.

There's an old saying that "the clothes make the man" (or woman, we're quick to add nowadays). How true do you think this is? Here's a project with one approach for finding out.