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Leda Cosmides and John Tooby examine in-depth the idea of evolutionary psychology, including evolutionary psychology's past and present, adaptive problems, nature and nurture, and many other evolutionary psychology topics.

Discusses continuity and discontinuity in developmental psychology.

Discusses the nature-nurture issue in psychology.

Provides a description of basic research methods used in psychology and a guide to help you identify which method to use in your research.

Provides an overview of psychology research methods.

The website of the American Psychological Association's main journal for research on children's development. Links to abstracts of current articles.

Provides review of various methods in research, including correlational design and experimental method. Site provides valuable links to other issues related to psychological research.

The website of the American Psychological Association related to ethical principles. Provides information about such topics as respecting others, nondiscrimination, sexual harassment, evaluation, assessment, intervention, teaching, training, supervision, and research.

Discusses the issues of early-later experience and nature versus nurture.

"The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piagets work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting interviews with children of varying ages, this film presents an overview of Piagets developmental theory, its scope and content. The film can serve either as an introduction to Piagets work or as a review of it. With David Elkind, Ph.D. This is a short clip from the film. Further information is available at www.davidsonfilms.com."

Provides an overview of Bowlby's Attachment Theory.

John Bowlby (1907 - 1990) was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood.

Provides an overview of Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning.

This site contains a biography of Lev Vygotsky,.

Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success-a simple idea that makes all the difference. Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports.

At the very heart of cognitive psychology is the idea of information processing.

According to Erikson, the ego develops as it successfully resolves crises that are distinctly social in nature. These involve establishing a sense of trust in others, developing a sense of identity in society, and helping the next generation prepare for the future.

Psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913 - 1999) provided the most famous body of research offering explanations of individual differences in attachment.

Reading a road map upside-down and generating synonyms for the word "brilliant" are two very different skills. But each is a measurable indicator of general intelligence, a construct that includes problem solving abilities, spatial manipulation and language acquisition. Scientists generally agree that intelligence can be captured by psychometric tests. But the study of intelligence is dogged by questions of just how much IQ contributes to an individual's success and well-being, how genes and environment interact to generate smarts and why the average IQ score rose throughout the world during the twentieth century.

Provides a biography of Jean Piaget and an overview of his cognitive developmental theory.