What's New

* learning-theories.com

Artificial Intelligence

*

Eliza. (Author Unknown) This is the classic program, with a web interface, that attempts to use basic AI to imitate certain aspects of a therapeutic conversation.

Biopsychology/Physiopsychology

* A collection of General Biopsychology Animations and Tutorials (This covers concepts as well as content.) by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
* Neural IconBasic Neural Functioning. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
*

Biopsychological Concepts by John C. Hay
Scroll down to find activities about:
o

Sleep and Dreams
o

Split Brain
o

Feature Detecting Neuron
* Digital Anatomist. University of Washington
* Introductory Biopsychology Tutorials. by Sandra Nagel Randall of Saginaw Valley State University and Lyle K. Grant of Athabasca University. Review the structures of our nervous system with reviews of some of the basic functions.
* Neuroanatomy Tutorial
* Neurophysiology. A collection of flash tutorials by Tutis Vilis at University of Western Ontario
* Neuroscience Tutorial. By Diana Weedman Molavi of Washington University School of Medicine
* Serendip Brain and Behavior by Faculty and Staff at Bryn Mawr. A wonderful collection of tutorials and activities related broadly to issues in brain and behavior.

Clinical Psychology

* Eliza. (Author Unknown) This is the classic program, with a web interface, that attempts to use basic AI to imitate certain aspects of a therapeutic conversation.

Cognitive Psychology

* Change/Inattentional Blindness Videos. A collection of quicktime videos from the from studies on these topics by Daniel J. Simons
* Cognition Laboratory Experiments by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
* DualTask.org. by Hal Pasher, UCSD. Demonstrations of the limits of cognitive processing in multitask environmnets.
* Mathematical Models of Memory. by Dennis, S., Nobel, P., Butterworth, P., Chalmers, K., White, J., Huber, D. & Diller, D. (1996). Mathematical Models of Human Memory: Tutorials. Noetica: Open Forum, 1(6), http://psy.uq.edu.au/CogPsych/Noetica.
* Signal Detection Theory Tutorial: by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
o Java Version
o Microsoft Office Web Components Version

Return to index.
Critical Thinking

* Critical Thinking in Psychology by Nancy Digdon, Grant MacEwan Community College

Developmental Psychology

* Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. SUNY Cortland. While the tutorials are aimed at a class in educational psychology the cover several developmental topics.
* The Visible Embryo. This site has images for most of the stages of prenatal development.

General Collections

* Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. SUNY Cortland. While the tutorials are aimed at a class in educational psychology the cover several psychological topics.
* e.psych. by Gary Bradshaw at Mississippi State University. This site is an educational web site that teaches visitors about psychological concepts, through interactive animations, video, experiment and demonstrations.
* Online Psychology Laboratory. Hosted by the APA and sponsored by the APA, NSF and National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
* POSbase. A database of powerpoint presentations that describe both classic and recent research in psychology useful for high school and undergraduate teaching.
* PsychExperiments. Ken McGraw, Mark D. Tew, and John E. Williams, University of Mississippi. A nice collection of psychological experiments, both for labs and actual studies, that your students can run in. It is possible to register your class so that you can segregate your data for your class for download in and Excel file.
* PsychLabOnline. A nice collection of interactive demonstrations of many basic concepts. by John C. Hay

Return to index.
Learning

*

Basic Concepts in Learning by John C. Hay
o

Classical Conditioning
o

Operant Conditioning
o

Operant Conditioning 2
* Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. SUNY Cortland. While the tutorials are aimed at a class in educational psychology the cover several learning topics.
* learning-theories.com. Descriptions of many different learning theories.
* Operant Conditioning. University of Wisconsin Colleges - Psychology Department
* Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise. by Lyle Grant. Uses examples from research, real life, and clinical practice.
* Rescorla-Wagner Model of Classical Conditioning. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College

Research Methods and Statistics

* Internal Validity Tutorial but Dr. David Polson, University of Victoria
* Research Randomizer. A web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions.

Return to index.
Sensation and Perception

* Ambiguous Figures by Michel Bellot
* Akos Feher, University of Rutgers, Vision Science Demo Programs
o The Brick Illusion
o Biological Motion
o The Hidden Bird
* Animations of Processes within the Ear. An collection of animations and illustrations of many basic auditory processes. Taken from the "Audtory Tour" by John Brugge and associates.
* Art of Vision. Application of some vision principles to artistic techniques and perception. by Nicolas Meier and Professor Mark Dubin at Colorado University
* Biological Motion Analyzer. A wonderful interactive animation of biological motion by Nikolaus F. Troje, Ruhr-Universit�t
* BRISSWEB (Eye Movement Visualization) Run a Java visualization of actual eye movement data. Robert Steinman, University of Maryland
* Demonstratons by Stuart Anstis. A nice collection by one of the major players in the field
* Eyetricks.com. A collection of visual illusions.
* Illusions Gallery. A collection of visual illusions with demonstrations and tutorials. by David Landrigan, University of Massachussetts Lowell.
* IllusionWorks. A classic collection of interactive illusions.
* Introduction to Color by Eugene Vishnevsky, Rochester Institute of Technology. This is a collection of applets to illustrate color and color mixing. The emphasis is on how it applies to graphics but most of the material is fairly general.
* Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions. by Edward Adelson
* Magni-Phi and Related Phenomena by Filip J. Pizlo at Purdue University. A wonder explanation and demonstration of the Phi phenomenon.
* Motion Aftereffect by Mark Newbold. A real nice online version of this classic aftereffect.
* Motion Perception by George Mather, University of Sussex. A nice collection of motion demonstrations with clear explanations.
* Noh Mask Facial Expression Illusion. Michael Lyons and others; ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories.



* Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach
* Perceptual Demonstrations at the Exploratorium
o The Bronx Cheer Bulb. A nice demonstration of a visual effect due to flicker.
o Cafe Wall Illusion Requires Shockwave plug-in.
o Fading Dot
o Mona. Just try it.
o Postcard Exhibits of Illusions and Other Surprises
o Shimmer
o Trapezoidal Window
* The Physiology of the Senses Transformations for Perception and Action. A collection of flash tutorials by Tutis Vilis at University of Western Ontario
* ProjectLite. by Kenneth Brecher and Scott Gorlin. A collection of illustrations of visual phenomena
* S&P IconSensation and Perception Tutorials. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
* Simulation of Models of Backward Masking by Gregory Francis, Purdue University
* Some Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions by Michael Bach. A very nice collection
* The Soundry this is a site that has many interactive demontrations about sound. It emphasizes the physics of sound but many of the demonstrations have a strong psychological component.
* ViperLib. Online Collection of Image for the study of vision.
* Visionary: A Dictionary for the Study of Vision
* Visual Demonstrations. Here is a collection of some visual demonstrations.
* Visual Demonstrations II. A collection, with text, of a variety of visual phenomena.
* Visual Perception Laboratory by Greg Francis. A collection of demonstrations and experiments.
* Visual Physiology by GeorgeMather, University of Sussex. An nice introduction with an online quiz.

Return to index.
Social Psychology

* The Concept of Intentional Action. An explanation of what the average english speaker means by using the word intentional. This site is grouped around some demonstration experiments (that do not collect data). by Joshua Knobe, Princeton University
* NetLabs. A collection of interactive exercises to accompany Brehm/Kassin/Fein's text Social Psychology, 5/e. However, the collection is general enough to work for most people.
* Online Social Facilitation Demonstration. By Gary McClelland at Colorado University
* The Prisoner's Dilemma
o At Serendip at Bryn Mawr
* Social Psychology Tutorials by Advanced Social Psychology Students of Richard Sherman at Miami University, Ohio.
* The Stanford Prison Experiment A slideshow with textual narration covering the details of this classic and troubling study. It is put together by Philip Zimbardo.