Psychological Tutorials
and Demonstrations

This is a page that will contain links to hypertext tutorials in psychology as they become available. Currently there are links to tutorials in:

Index

What's New

Artificial Intelligence	Biopsychology/Physiopsychology	Clinical Psychology	Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology	General Collections	Learning	Research Methods and Statistics
	Sensation and Perception	Social Psychology

What's New

Artificial Intelligence

Eliza. (Author Unknown) This is the classic program, with a web interface, that attempts to use basic AI to imitate certain aspects of a therapeutic conversation.

Biopsychology/Physiopsychology

A collection of General Biopsychology Animations and Tutorials (This covers concepts as well as content.) by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
Basic Neural Functioning. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
Biopsychological Concepts by John C. Hay
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Digital Anatomist. University of Washington
Introductory Biopsychology Tutorials. by Sandra Nagel Randall of Saginaw Valley State University and Lyle K. Grant of Athabasca University. Review the structures of our nervous system with reviews of some of the basic functions.
Neuroanatomy Tutorial
Neuroscience Animations. A collection of Java based animations of various Neuroscience topics. Mostly sensory physiology at the moment. By John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
Neuroscience Tutorial. By Diana Weedman Molavi of Washington University School of Medicine
Serendip Brain and Behavior by Faculty and Staff at Bryn Mawr. A wonderful collection of tutorials and activities related broadly to issues in brain and behavior.

Clinical Psychology

Eliza. (Author Unknown) This is the classic program, with a web interface, that attempts to use basic AI to imitate certain aspects of a therapeutic conversation.

Cognitive Psychology

Change/Inattentional Blindness Videos. A collection of quicktime videos from the from studies on these topics by Daniel J. Simons
Cognition Laboratory Experiments by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
DualTask.org. by Hal Pasher, UCSD. Demonstrations of the limits of cognitive processing in multitask environmnets.
Mathematical Models of Memory. by Dennis, S., Nobel, P., Butterworth, P., Chalmers, K., White, J., Huber, D. & Diller, D. (1996). Mathematical Models of Human Memory: Tutorials. Noetica: Open Forum, 1(6), http://psy.uq.edu.au/CogPsych/Noetica.
Signal Detection Theory Tutorial: by John H. Krantz, Hanover College
- Java Version
- Microsoft Office Web Components Version

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Developmental Psychology

Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. SUNY Cortland. While the tutorials are aimed at a class in educational psychology the cover several developmental topics.
The Visible Embryo. This site has images for most of the stages of prenatal development.

General Collections

e.psych. by Gary Bradshaw at Mississippi State University. This site is an educational web site that teaches visitors about psychological concepts, through interactive animations, video, experiment and demonstrations.
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Online Psychology Laboratory. Hosted by the APA and sponsored by the APA, NSF and National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
POSbase. A database of powerpoint presentations that describe both classic and recent research in psychology useful for high school and undergraduate teaching.
PsychExperiments. Ken McGraw, Mark D. Tew, and John E. Williams, University of Mississippi. A nice collection of psychological experiments, both for labs and actual studies, that your students can run in. It is possible to register your class so that you can segregate your data for your class for download in and Excel file.
PsychLabOnline. A nice collection of interactive demonstrations of many basic concepts. by John C. Hay

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Learning

Basic Concepts in Learning by John C. Hay
Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. SUNY Cortland. While the tutorials are aimed at a class in educational psychology the cover several learning topics.
learning-theories.com. Descriptions of many different learning theories.
Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise. by Lyle Grant. Uses examples from research, real life, and clinical practice.
Rescorla-Wagner Model of Classical Conditioning. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College

Research Methods and Statistics

Internal Validity Tutorial but Dr. David Polson, University of Victoria
Research Randomizer. A web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions.

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Sensation and Perception

Ambiguous Figures by Michel Bellot
Akos Feher, University of Rutgers, Vision Science Demo Programs
Animations of Processes within the Ear. An collection of animations and illustrations of many basic auditory processes. Taken from the "Audtory Tour" by John Brugge and associates.
Biological Motion Analyzer. A wonderful interactive animation of biological motion by Nikolaus F. Troje, Ruhr-Universität
BRISSWEB (Eye Movement Visualization) Run a Java visualization of actual eye movement data. Robert Steinman, University of Maryland
Color Vision. Illustrates how different colors appears to people with different forms of color deficiencies. By Cal Henderson
Demonstratons by Stuart Anstis. A nice collection by one of the major players in the field
Eyetricks.com. A collection of visual illusions.
"I can see clearly now..." Mini Cases in Perception
Illusions Gallery. A collection of visual illusions with demonstrations and tutorials. by David Landrigan, University of Massachussetts Lowell.
IllusionWorks. A classic collection of interactive illusions.
Introduction to Color by Eugene Vishnevsky, Rochester Institute of Technology. This is a collection of applets to illustrate color and color mixing. The emphasis is on how it applies to graphics but most of the material is fairly general.
Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions. by Edward Adelson
Magni-Phi and Related Phenomena by Filip J. Pizlo at Purdue University. A wonder explanation and demonstration of the Phi phenomenon.
Motion Aftereffect by Mark Newbold. A real nice online version of this classic aftereffect.
Motion Perception by George Mather, University of Sussex. A nice collection of motion demonstrations with clear explanations.
Noh Mask Facial Expression Illusion. Michael Lyons and others; ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories.

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach
Perceptual Demonstrations at the Exploratorium
- The Bronx Cheer Bulb. A nice demonstration of a visual effect due to flicker.
- Cafe Wall Illusion Requires Shockwave plug-in.
- Fading Dot
- Mona. Just try it.
- Postcard Exhibits of Illusions and Other Surprises
- Shimmer
- Trapezoidal Window
The Physiology of the Senses Transformations for Perception and Action. A collection of flash tutorials by Tutis Vilis at University of Western Ontario
ProjectLite. by Kenneth Brecher and Scott Gorlin. A collection of illustrations of visual phenomena
Sensation and Perception Tutorials. by John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
Sensory Physiology. A collection of Java based animations of various of sensory physiology. By John H. Krantz, Hanover College.
Simulation of Models of Backward Masking by Gregory Francis, Purdue University
Some Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions by Michael Bach. A very nice collection
The Soundry this is a site that has many interactive demontrations about sound. It emphasizes the physics of sound but many of the demonstrations have a strong psychological component.
ViperLib. Online Collection of Image for the study of vision.
Visionary: A Dictionary for the Study of Vision
Visual Demonstrations. Here is a collection of some visual demonstrations.
Visual Demonstrations II. A collection, with text, of a variety of visual phenomena.
Visual Perception Laboratory by Greg Francis. A collection of demonstrations and experiments.
Visual Physiology by GeorgeMather, University of Sussex. An nice introduction with an online quiz.

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Social Psychology

NetLabs. A collection of interactive exercises to accompany Brehm/Kassin/Fein's text Social Psychology, 5/e. However, the collection is general enough to work for most people.
Online Social Facilitation Demonstration. By Gary McClelland at Colorado University
The Prisoner's Dilemma
- At Serendip at Bryn Mawr
Social Psychology Tutorials by Advanced Social Psychology Students of Richard Sherman at Miami University, Ohio.
The Stanford Prison Experiment A slideshow with textual narration covering the details of this classic and troubling study. It is put together by Philip Zimbardo.

Related Sites:

Neuroscience Animations	SurveyBuildR. An open-source tool for the development of web-based surveys.		Cognition Laboratory Experiments
Sensation and Perception Tutorials		Basic Neural Tutorials

Index

What's New

Artificial Intelligence	Biopsychology/Physiopsychology	Clinical Psychology	Cognitive Psychology
Critical Thinking	Developmental Psychology	General Collections	Learning
Research Methods and Statistics	Sensation and Perception	Social Psychology

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