Directory of Psychology Resources

Home > Kids and Teens > People and Society > Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour.

Psychologists are interested in why people behave in the ways that they do. This includes studying attitudes and social influences, individual differences, remembering and forgetting, the social and intellectual development of children, the psychology of atypical behaviour, biological approaches and the research methods needed to investigate human behaviour and mental processes.

Subcategories

• Learning Disabilities
• Psychologists

Resources in This Category

• allPsych

  http://allpsych.com/
  Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.

• Beautycheck

  http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/
  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.

• Being Left Handed

  http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/left.handed.html
  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

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
  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.

• Epsych: Journeys in Mind

  http://epsych.msstate.edu/
  Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.

• Extrasensory Perception

  http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=15
  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

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/interviews/loftus.html
  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.

• General Psychology

  http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsy.html
  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.

• Implicit Association Test

  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
  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.]

• Ingenious: Body Image

  http://www.ingenious.org.uk/Read/Identity/BodyImage/
  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.

• Interference: The Stroop Effect

  http://www.ascdeaf.com/blog/?p=34
  Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.

• Introduction to Learning: Classical Conditioning

  http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9712&cn=353
  Explains how automatic responses to smells, sounds, and situations develop. Includes Pavlov's dogs, the Skinner box, and behavior modification.

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/conation/maslow.html
  Research paper discusses various studies into what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Includes existence, relatedness, growth, introversion, extroversion, and divergence in theories.

• Personality Theories

  http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/perscontents.html
  Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.

• Psybersite

  http://www.units.miamioh.edu/psybersite/
  Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.

• Psychology

  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/psychology.aspx
  Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.

• Psychosocial Theory: Erikson

  http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/erikson.stages.html
  Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.

• Social Psychology

  http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/socpsy.html
  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.

• Stanford Prison Experiment

  http://www.prisonexp.org/
  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.

• The Classical Rorschach

  http://captainmnemo.se/ro
  Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.

• The Descent of Man

  http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/
  Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.

• The IPIP-NEO

  http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/5/j5j/IPIP/
  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.

• The Memory Exhibition

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html
  Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.

• The Mind

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/
  Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.

• Visual Cognition Lab

  http://www.simonslab.com/
  Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.

Related Categories

• Home > Kids and Teens > Health > Emotional Health and Wellbeing
• Home > Kids and Teens > School Time > Science > Living Things > Animals > Mammals > Humans > Nervous System
• Home > Kids and Teens > School Time > Social Studies

Other Languages

• Chinese
• Japanese
• Chinese Simplified

 

Home > Kids and Teens > People and Society > Psychology

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us