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IAT - Implicit Association Test It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short. In addition, this site contains various related information. The value of this information may be greatest if you try at least one test first...

Complete Guide to Psychology for Students, Educators & Enthusiasts. Find psychology articles, student resources and learn about the theories and perspectives that have shaped the discipline.

A good simple guide to the basics in psychology. A great introductory resource.

Agreed, this site is most useful for a quick overview on many topics without having to read through masses of information.

A clear distinguish between the core research methods

Hi Marcus, This weebly is actually our schools one by my colleague Mike- great to see it reaches beyond our students:) Best regards, Yvette

This website is fantastic, because it provides teachers with resources as well as teaching and learning activities for each level of analysis. The website is rich with resources and also provides content on research methods. This is useful for me, because i attempt to fuse research methods into each level of analysis so that students have a thorough understanding of research methods.

As a new teacher of psych, this is the best website and so many ideas and essential tips.

As the websites name implies, a simple guide to ethics for the IA

Good but lots of adds

Ethics refers to the correct rules of conduct necessary when carrying out research. We have a moral responsibility to protect research participants from harm. However important the issue under investigation psychologists need to remember that they have a duty to respect the rights and dignity of research participants.

DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story or datafile of interest.

The case study method of teaching applied to college science teaching, from The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. I just started looking at this site but it appears that you can search case studies down by discipline, like psychology.

Not really a 'Psychology' site but it does have forums for Psychology where students can interact with each other. The revision methods are great too, I encourage my students to sign up for a free account in class and we spend time turning text into other revision methods.

I forgot to add the tag to this site and I don't know how to edit it to add it, without deleting the whole thing and restarting! Sorry :(

I use this a lot for my own reference. It's a website written by graduate students that provides quick, easy to read articles about various topics. I really like the relevant examples in each of the articles, too.

Good site for students to check their knowledge and understanding of research methods.

The course is the study of human experience and behavior seen through three major perspectives and various methods of psychological enquiry, with particular emphasis on empirical psychology and practical experimental work where the student will develop the capacity to work critically with both psychological theories and empirical studies.

In the past, researchers performed all kinds of questionable experiments in the name of science. For example, in one famous experiment, psychologist Stanley Milgram led his subjects to believe that they were giving painful electric shocks to other people. Many people consider this experiment unethical because it caused the subjects emotional discomfort. Today, researchers must abide by basic ethical norms when conducting research. Most important, they must consider whether they might harm their human or animal subjects while doing research. Ethics Ethics refers to a system of moral values or the way people distinguish right from wrong. The American Psychological Association (APA) requires all its members to adhere to its code of ethics, which applies to the treatment of both humans and animals.

Creative arts therapies are dynamic, participatory approaches that have been around for more than 70 years. This site provides a guide to these methods based on the idea that nonverbal expression of thoughts and feelings can be a central part of therapy and whole-brain intervention.

TeachPsychScience.org provides a range of classroom and lab resources such as demonstrations, activities, assignments, exercises, and PowerPoint presentations to facilitate teaching research methods, statistics, and experimental design in psychology.

Every discipline that has relatively autonomous control over its entry requirements, training, development of knowledge, standards, methods, and practices does so only within the context of contract with the society in which it functions.

This article is about advanced techniques, the polish that can raise a candidates grades (to a high B or an A).

Great site to help students with their extended essays