Teaching Resources

General Resources

• Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology
• Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• Social Psychology Teaching Resources
• Teaching Resources from the Assn for Psychological Science
• TeachPsychScience.org: Resources for teaching research and statistics in psychology
• Personality Pedagogy: A Wiki of Teaching Resources
• National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
• Teaching Tips from Experienced Teachers
• Introductory Psychology Resources
• CROW: Course Resources on the Web
• Psychlotron Teaching Resource Bank
• The Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Discussion Lists & Teaching Resources
• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course

Syllabus-Related Materials

• Introduction to Psychology (Stanford University)
• Introduction to Psychology (University of North Carolina)
  • Syllabus
  • Calendar
• Introduction to Psychology Syllabus (Chaffey College)
• OTRP Project Syllabus (APA Division 2)
• Search Over 1,000 Syllabi (Social Psychology Network)

Lecture Sequence from Exploring Psychology (Myers, 7th edition)

• Research Methods (.3 MB)
• Chapter 1: History (11.6 MB)
• Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior (10.7 MB)
• Chapter 3: Nature and Nurture of Behavior (.2 MB)
• Chapter 4: The Developing Person (8.1 MB)
• Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception (12.8 MB)
• Chapter 6: States of Consciousness (3.07 MB)
• Chapter 7: Learning (.5 MB)
• Chapter 8: Memory (2.8 MB)
• Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence (.6 MB)
• Chapter 10: Motivation (.2 MB)
• Chapter 12: Personality (2.9 MB)
• Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders (.2 MB)
• Chapter 14: Therapy (.5 MB)
• Chapter 15: Social Psychology (.5 MB)

Demonstrations

• Implicit Learning
• Dating Survey
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Exploration Inventory
• Functioning with Psychological Disorders
• Opinions on Intelligence and IQ
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Self-Monitoring
• Subliminal Learning
• Matching Phenomena
• Shaping Thoughts
• Got Mild Ad (humor in persuasion)
• The Window (to teach perception)
• Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" [An mp3 sound clip from Reverse Speech playing the infamous hook line and flipping it backward, which sounds like "it's fun to smoke marijuana" and shows the power of suggestion in interpreting stimuli.]

Assignments

• Course Log Assignments
• Behavior Modification
• Social Conformity
• Clinical Diagnosis
• Observing Development
• Identifying IVs and DVs
• Intro Paper Assignment
• Writing Assignment I
• Writing Assignment II

Miscellaneous Resources

• Action Teaching Resources
• Songs About Psychology
• Teaching a Unit on Personality
• How to Beat a Polygraph
• What is an Experiment?
• Interpersonal Attraction
• The Vestibular System
• Research Ethics Debate
• Online Psychology Laboratory
• The Stanford Prison Experiment
• The official site for the BBC Prison Study
• The Psych Files--Great Podcasts by Michael A. Britt, Ph.D
• Online Psych 101 textbook by Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D

Thanks go to the following contributors: Ann Weber, Shevaun Stocker, Michele Schlehofer, Jazmin Quill, John Mayer, M. Kimberly Maclin, Erika Koch, Jennifer Harman, John Edlund, and Roger Drake. Without them this web page would not have been possible.

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