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Online Texts
& Tutorials
Welcome to the Psychwatch page of Online Textbooks,
Papers, and Tutorials. This page may be of use to both Professionals who are teaching, as well as to students at
all levels of graduate and undergraduate study. We are working on expanding each of these topic areas, as well
as adding more fields of study. If you know of a resource that we do not have here, or if you would like to see
information in a specific area, let
us know.
Cognition
The Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory - descriptions of some classic experiments
where u can collect your own data and compare it to the original findings.
The Internet Psychology Lab has a section on cognitive psychology. It includes review sheets
and interactive demonstartions of visual cognition, the Stroop effect, and reaction time.
Classics in the History of Psychology - full text reprints
of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
Learning &
Memory
Classics in the History of Psychology - full
text reprints of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
Learning & Memory
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by Tom Bauslaugh. Lecture notes, practice questions, and related readings from his course.
Mathematical
Models of Human Memory - includes descriptions and interactive demonstrations of associated
memory, list strength, and more.
Mind Tools -
"Memory Techniques and Mnemonics"
Negative Reinforcement University - theory and examples, from Maricopa Community College.
Positive Reinforcement - Six pairs of examples/non-examples of positive reinforcement followed by a 14 item quiz.
Tutorials on Classical Conditioning and
Operant Conditioning by Bjorn
Brembs.
Neuropsychology / Biopsychology
Basic Neural Processes - includes study sheets and quizzes on the nervous system
from the brain to the neuron, a review of the action potential, and a glossary of terms.
Biological Bases of Behavior - Paul Kenyon has designed this site to go along with his courses at theUniversity of Plymouth, Devon,
UK. It is a good resourse for anyone taking a Physiological Psychology course.
Drugs, Brain, & Behavior - an online textbook by C. Robin Timmons & Leonard W. Hamilton.
The Normal Brain Structure Analysis
- a visual tour of the brain, including normal brains
as well as brains affected by stroke, tumor, and degenerative & infectious disease.
Perception & Sensation
Benham's Top &
Fechner Color - a demonstration and explanation of how colors can be perceived in a black
& white image.
Classics in the History of Psychology - full text reprints
of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
Demonstrations in Auditory Perception - "some principles about the way we understand the sound world around us, and the way in which music
makes use of these principles."
Figure Determined by Motion - a neat perception demonstration.
IllusionWorks - a wide
variety of interactive visual illusions, including information on how each illusion works and library references.
Interactive
Illustrations of Color Perception - how color vision works, by John F. Hughes.
The Internet Psychology Lab - has review and interactive demonstrations of signal detection, selective adaptation, the Ponzo Illusion,
and the Poggendorff Illusion. It also has a section on auditory perception including pitch perception, the tritone paradox, and the
Shepard Tone.
Perceptual Demonstrations at the Exploratorium.
A Pictorial Introduction to Fourier Analysis - A theory about what the brain does when you see an object.
Projects in Perception
- descriptions and demonstations by A.G. Bulthoff.
Receptive Field Tutorial - explanation and demonstrations.
Rhythm Perception
- by Branko Sremec.
Vision & Art
- how perception is used in art. The site includes examples of depth cues, interposition, perspective, relativism,
texture gradient, shadow
Visual Demonstrations - by John Krantz at Hanover University.
General Psychology
Classics in the History of Psychology - full text reprints
of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
History of Psychology - Dr. David Likely's
informative page, with lots of links to the histories of various disciplines.
Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology Online
(OTRP) - distributes teaching and advising materials on behalf of APA Division 2. Site provides course syllabi,
teaching resources, etc.
Social Psychology
Classics in the History of Psychology - full text reprints
of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
Living In A Social World
- created by students at Miami University (Ohio).
Statistics & Research
Annotated Factor Analysis
Bibliography - by Michael Friendly. Everything you want to know about factor analysis.
Peter Bentler offers reprints of articles he has authored here.(On
statistics & research design)
Classics in the History of Psychology - full text reprints
of many of the classic and seminal articles in various psychological fields. Good reference!
Correlational Versus Experimental
Research - the differences explained.
Designing Studies - experimental design and identifying independent & dependent variables.
Exploring Psychology
Scientifically - how to ask testable questions.
Glossary of Measurement Terms
- from ability to Z-score, by Harcourt Brace Educational Measurement.
Guide to Selecting Statistics - figure out the types of stats you should use to analyze your data in a step-by-step interactive questionnaire.
If you are teaching, you may want to recommend this resource to students.
HyperStat Online - an introductory online
statistics textbook by David Lane.
Internal Validity - explanations and exercises.
This is a list of publications on Item Response
Theory (IRT).
The Knowledge Base by Bill Trochim - an online
research methods textbook.
Latent and manifest monotonicity
in item response models - a paper by Brian W. Junker and Klaas Sijtsma.
MCMC Preprints Service - papers on Monte Carlo Markov Chain
methods.
Multivariate
Statistics - A Practical Guide - a fairly advanced online textbook by Mike
Wulder.
Multivariate Statistics: Concepts,
Models, and Applications - an online textbook by David Stockburger.
Probability Central - An excellent tutorial on probability
theory. The six section lesson is available for download.
You can also play Probability Poker to see an application
of probability theory.
Research Methods Tutorial
This is a page of 30 or so little
problems on probability.
The Idea of a Regression Equation by Stephen
Lea - gives a simple, straightforward explanation of regression.
- Sage Advice - One person's advice on how the math phobic college/grad
student can succeed in that all too difficult stats course.
The Statistical Instruction Internet Palette at Arizona State
University includes data, instruction, equations, graphs, histograms, scatterplots, and the Computing Studio, where
you plug in your data and the program "walks you through the steps of computing your statistic."
Statistics: The Study of Stability in Variation - from UCLA
Statistics.
Statsoft - covers everything from elementary through
advanced statistics. The complete text is available for download here.
Surf Stat australia by Keith Dear
- an introductory statistics text.
David Wallace's homepage (Ohio State University professor)
- contains statistics demonstrations and also examples of how algebra is used in statistics.
(Special thanks to T. Simpson, Correspondent, for help in developing this page)
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