Web Resources for Teaching Psychology
What sort of things are available on the web? Will they enhance my syllabus?
Examples:
A Tutorial
An Interactive learning object
A Source for background information
A Primary document
A Web course, syllabus, or lesson plan
I'd like to browse a list of good resources. Where can I go?
Mega-sites
These sites cover teaching tips, tutorials for students, online demonstrations and experiments, study skills and test-taking. Social Psychology is particularly well covered. Explore!
American Psychological Society – Teaching Resources
Resources for Teaching Social Psychology (CROW)
The Learning objects here are designed to teach or illustrate specific psychological concepts or methodology. Many resources are interactive.
Online Demonstrations, Experiments, and Tutorials
Tutorials developed at the University of Arizona Library
Psychological Tutorials and Demonstrations
Psychology Demonstrations, Tutorials & Other Neat Stuff
PsychExperiments
These experiments require you to download software and data.
For instructors
Get inspiration from other people teaching psychology. Unless permission is explicitly given, you'll need to contact the author for permission to adapt.
Web Interface for Statistics Education
Tutorials for Students
Some sites publish extensive tutorials for students. Here are a couple of examples.
Reference Sources
You can add to your reading list with online resources. Often it is possible to link directly to a specific topic within a larger work.
Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
This encyclopedia covers everything from the history and theory of the field of clinical psychology, to current thinking on training, clinical techniques, professional standards and practices, and socio-cultural factors in mental health. Equivalent of the eleven volume printed encyclopedia [To search, click the Subject Index tab.]
How can I SEARCH to find a specific kind of resource?
Here's a sample Google search for educational resources on operant conditioning.
"operant conditioning" "lesson plan" OR tutorial OR flash OR interactive
Step One
Type in your topic. A phrase should be enclosed by “quotation marks”
In this example, our topic is "operant conditioning"
Step Two
Type in the string of terms shown above (in bold font). Capitalize the word OR.
Step Three
Click Search. Google will find any page containing “operant conditioning” along with a least one term or phrase the string of alternative terms linked by OR.
Now, plug in your topic
- Substitute your topic for “operant conditioning.”
- If desired, you can add or delete OR terms from the string. For example, to find examples of test questions on your topic, try adding the following to the existing string:
OR exam OR quiz
Tip: Sometimes its difficult to see where Google found your search terms by looking at a web page. You can use Google's cached page to see your search terms in context. This shows Google's snapshot of the web page, along with your search terms highlighted in different colors. See the sample record below. You would click Cached.
Center for Programmed Instruction
... (Six tutorials of approximately 30 frames per tutorial , ... chamber used when
the operant conditioning process is studied in the laboratory. ...
www.centerforpi.com/abasets.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
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