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A library of free printable worksheets plus hundreds of Psychology questions created and rated by other teachers for your custom printable tests and worksheets.

Asking questions that can be posted around the room.

The latest research and teaching support for the IB Psychology classroom.

I think this site might be useful because it has videos and release questions

Polls provide the best direct source of information about public opinion. They are valuable tools for journalists and can serve as the basis for accurate, informative news stories. For the journalist looking at a set of poll numbers, here are the 20 questions to ask the pollster before reporting any results.

Deciding how to pace your IB Psychology Course is an important issue and there are no hard and fast rules of thumb to guide you. These blogs really help with specific questions/concerns.

After reading through this site, I believe that I am going to turn this into a lesson plan that I am going to use the first week of psychology each year. This would probably be useful for all my students, not just my psychology students.

This publication discusses ethics required in experiments. It also provides a descriptive example of a false confessions experiment and the ethical issues considered for this study.

This is a PDF of a complete chapter on ethical issues in psychological research from a McGraw Hill textbook. It contains questions for students to answer as well as basic vocabularly.

The APA/TOPSS released a manual for new psychology teachers, and it looks like it's full of great resources! See the announcement below for details. "New high school psychology teachers may have a number of questions about how to proceed with instruction in their first psychology teaching assignment.

yes. link to this page and check in every few days, it is slow in the summer but has great moderators and loads of information, you can also look at the archives by topic, it has been around for about 7 years.

also check out the lesson plans from TOPSS (you do need to be a member $50 per year), there is one are lesson plan available on Memory to give a sample but there is an outline, activities and resources for every chapter of the intro course

A variety of research questions in psychology, ranging from different topics of psychology .

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.

I believe the curriculum site is treasure chest of guidance for teaching any IB course. I feel that anytime I have questions about the course I may be teaching I can access this site and find what I need.

I found this video to go along with the Socio-cultural unit. It explored the question of what shapes human behavior: Situational or Dispositional?

Great article on behavioral psychology

the article is really great but the question is not answered yet when the unconscious drives would be conscious ones in order to deal with them before they become irresistable

the implications of a "large" p-value, i.e. one that is significantly larger than the alpha value set at the beginning of the study (for us, usually p<=0.05).

Did you know that the Chi-Squared Test is always one-sided? I sure didn't. Here is a simple explanation as to why and lots more interesting and "easy" statistical information

Comprehensive online resource for IB Psychology

This site breaks down the learning outcomes by LOA and has example questions for each one if you click on it.

Good resource for the core of the course.

VARK Questionnaire version 7.1 Choose the answer which best explains your preference and click the box next to it. Please click more than one if a single answer does not match your perception. Leave blank any question that does not apply. (I like to have my students complete this questionnaire at the start of each school year and share the results with me so I can learn more about them.)

Many students ask me so many Psychology questions based on Pop culture. Online quizzes on Facebook and Buzzfeed has them sometimes mislead. This site was one I've shown them that helps explain away some of the misconceptions. Overall its just an interesting site.

Wish this was still an active site. I was interested in reading