Boston University
Boston University: Project Lite: Motion
A large collection of online activities for exploring how our eyes perceive real and apparent motion.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Psychology
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...
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Biotechnology Information: Stigma in Psychiatry
Addresses the issue of stigmatization of mental health disorders, its roots, attitudes of public and professionals, the impact of stigma, and efforts to combat stigmatization.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Abnormal Psychology: The Big Picture: Chapter Overview
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...
California State University
Ca State University: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior [Pdf]
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Your Brain and Moral Decision Making
In this segment from Curious, scientists conduct an experiment to learn how different areas of the brain are stimulated when making moral decisions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Coin Tossing
Coin Tossing shows a person flipping a coin and asks the student to describe coin-flipping as a decision making option.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Wilhelm Wundt and William James
Compares and contrasts the psychologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920 CE) and his theory of structuralism with the psychologist Willam James (1842-1910 CE) and his theory of functionalism.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Counselors
This resource provides information about counseling careers. Also includes duties, training, salaries, work situations, and job outlook.
York University
Classics History of Psychology: Value/need as Organizing Factors in Perception
This resource presents a paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
This is the Robbers Cave Experiment. This experiment focused on intergroup relations, mostly negative attitudes toward the out group.
York University
Classics in History of Psychology: Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance
This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. First published in 1959 this paper looks at what happens to a person's private opinion when he/she is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion.
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
Classical article by John B. Watson (one of the founders of Behaviorism) defining his views on Behaviorism.
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Supersition in the Pigeon: B. F. Skinner
Classic study by B. F. Skinner concerning learned behavior in a pigeon.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Abraham Maslow
This page from Personality Theories by Dr. C. George Boeree surveys the life and work of Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) with extensive explanations of his theories. Includes references.
York University
Classics History of Psychology: New Methods Intellectual Level of Subnormals
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon's work from 1905 serves as an introduction to the classic study on intelligence by Henry L. Minton, University of Windsor.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Carl Jung (1875 1961)
This detailed and illustrated overview of the life and work of the Swiss psychologist-psychiatrist Carl Jung discusses his background, how he developed his theories, the influence of Freud, and how his works influence psychiatry today.
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men
A Classic Psychological work by Edward Tolman from 1948. His experiments with rats led to discussion of cognitive maps in man.
York University
Classics History of Psychology: Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness
Classic Psychology paper on the "Behavioristic Interpretation of Consciousness" by K.S. Lashley originally published in 1923.
York University
Classics History of Psychology: Commentary Psychology as Behaviorist Views It
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...
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Behaviorism the Modern Note in Psychology
"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.
York University
Classics History of Psychology: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
Classic series of lectures presented by Sigmund Freud and first published in the "American Journal of Psychology" in 1910 entitled "The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis" with introduction and commentary by Dr. Raymond E. Fancher.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom :Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences
This site contains a wealth of information on Gardner's theory of multiple inteligences. It discusses what it consists of, the difference between it and the traditional definition of intelligence, how it has developed since its...
York University
Classics in the History of Psychology: Principles of Psychology by William James
Complete volumes of the two volumes of this work are available for study.