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.]
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» The Memory Exhibition [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
» The Mind [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
» 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.
» NASA.gov: Cognition Lab Tutorials [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.
» Personality and Kids [ Kids/Teens ] - Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
» 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.
» Psybersite [ Mature Teens ] - Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
» 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.]
» Psychology [ Kids/Teens ] - Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» Thinking Creatively [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
» 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.
» 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.
» The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Online book outlining the current state of knowledge and activity. Includes coping and health, personality, intelligence and cognition, sensation and perception, human development, and psychopathology. (December 14, 2001)
