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allPsych [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
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Beautycheck [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Being Left Handed [ Kids/Teens ] - Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
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A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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The Child Development Website [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Read about theories from Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson. Includes different stages, phases, and subphases from each theory.
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The Classical Rorschach [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
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Classics in the History of Psychology [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Color Matters [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
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Correlation [ Mature Teens ] - Examines the relationships between variables in psychological studies. Includes an exercise in which students determine the correlation between two variables and offer possible explanations.
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Criminal Profiling Research [ Mature Teens ] - 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]
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The Descent of Man [ Mature Teens ] - Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
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Epsych: Journeys in Mind [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
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Extrasensory Perception [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides synopsis of psychological research from a professor of psychology. Includes whether it really exists, claims of ESP, perception versus pretention, and experiment results.
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Frontline: What Jennifer Saw [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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General Psychology [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Humanistic Psychology Overview [ Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Illusions Gallery [ Mature Teens ] - Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
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Implicit Association Test [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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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Inference versus Observation [ Mature Teens ] - Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.
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Ingenious: Body Image [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explores the mental picture of one's own physical appearance, and how it is affected by weight, race and culture, cosmetic body modifications, and adornments.
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Intelligence [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Interference: The Stroop Effect [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
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Introduction to Learning: Classical Conditioning [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains how automatic responses to smells, sounds, and situations develop. Includes Pavlov's dogs, the Skinner box, and behavior modification.
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The IPIP-NEO [ Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Left vs. Right - Which Side Are You On? [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Research paper discusses various studies into what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Includes existence, relatedness, growth, introversion, extroversion, and divergence in theories.
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The Memory Exhibition [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
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The Mind [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
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Mind Survey [ Mature Teens ] - Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.
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NASA.gov: Cognition Lab Tutorials [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.
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Personality and Kids [ Kids/Teens ] - Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
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Personality Theories [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.
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Psybersite [ Mature Teens ] - Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
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PsychLab On-line [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides real and simulated interactive psychology experiments. Includes space perception, reaction time, split-brain syndrome, and classical conditioning. [Requires free Shockwave plug-in.]
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Psychology [ Kids/Teens ] - Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
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Psychosocial Theory: Erikson [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.
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Racism and Psychology [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Risktaking [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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The Science of Love [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Social Psychology [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Spirituality and Western Psychology [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explores the studies of transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Includes Maslow's hierarchy, subjective experience, social forces, brain functions, and the unconscious mind.
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Stanford Prison Experiment [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - 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.
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Thinking Creatively [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
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Visual Cognition Lab [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
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What is a Personality/Social Psychologist? [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains what topics are studied, scientific approach, basic and applied research, and career options. Includes educational recommendations and requirements.
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