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A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/memory/memory.html

[ 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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allPsych

http://allpsych.com/

[ 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

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

[ 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

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

[ 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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Classics in the History of Psychology

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

[ 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

http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

[ 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

http://www.mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/psych3.htm

[ 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

http://www.criminalprofiling.ch/

[ 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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Epsych: Journeys in Mind

http://epsych.msstate.edu/

[ 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

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

[ 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

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

[ 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

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/genpsy.html

[ 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

http://ahpweb.org/aboutahp/whatis.html

[ 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

http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/illusion.html

[ 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

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

[ 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

http://www.mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/psych1.htm

[ 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

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

[ 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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/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

http://www.apa.org/science/stroop.html

[ 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

http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap4/chap4d.htm

[ 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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Left vs. Right - Which Side Are You On?

http://brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html

[ 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

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

[ 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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Mind Survey

http://mind.wjh.harvard.edu/mindsurv.html

[ 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

http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html

[ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.

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Novita Kids: What’s Psychology all About?

http://kids.novita.org.au/content.asp?p=318#whats_psychology_all_about

[ Kids/Teens ] - Information about psychology, what it is and what other children say about it.

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