Online Resources
General Psychology Resources
Review of General Psychology: This scholarly peer reviewed journal provides articles that discuss changes and advances in theory, practice, research, and integration of the various disciplines in psychology.
Discovering Psychology Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 26 episode video series provides students with an overview of the study and field of psychology.
Statistics Resources
Against All Odds – Inside Statistics This Annenberg Learner 32 episode video series introduces a statistical topic in real-world context and takes you on location to where people from all walks of life are using statistics in their work.
Cognitive Psychology Resources
Groundbreaking Contributions to Cognitive Psychology Video: This TED video is an interview with legendary psychological scientist Jerome S. Bruner. An APS William James Fellow, Bruner is known for his groundbreaking contributions to cognitive psychology and the science of perception in the mid-20th century.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight: In this TED video, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor shares her personal experience following a massive stroke. Her message is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory: In this TED video, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus shares about false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were.
Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys: In this TED video, behavioral economist Colin Camerer shows research that reveals just how little we're able to predict what others are thinking.
Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world: In this TED video, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle discusses the importance and limitations of working memory, that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what's happening right now.
How we see color - Colm Kelleher: In this TED video, Colm Kelleher explains how humans can see color.
The Brain – Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 32 episode video series provides students with an overview of the study of the brain.
The Mind Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 26 episode video series provides students with an exploration of cognition and human behavior.
Psychopathology Resources
Overview of Changes to the DSM-5: The American Psychiatric Association’s website covering the development of the DSM-5 and the changes from the DSM-IV-TR to the DSM-5.
PBS Videos on DSM-5: An American Psychiatric video discussing the DSM-5.
The World of Abnormal Psychology Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 13 episode video series reviews psychological disorders and presents case studies. Diagnosis, theory, and treatment are discussed.
Toward a new understanding of mental illness: In this TED video, Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses the need to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and to start understanding them as "brain disorders."
Lifespan Development Resources
Seasons of Life Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 5 episode video series provides a biopsychosocial perspective on the human lifespan.
The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years Video Series: This Annenberg Learner 13 episode video series provides an overview of child development from birth to age five.
Human Spark Video Series: This three part PBS video is hosted by Alan Alda and explores the question of what makes each and every one of us unique or human.
Eleanor Maccoby Talks Developmental Psychology: In this TED video, Eleanor Maccoby talks developmental psychology and gender studies in this American Psychology Science video interview.
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? In this TED video, psychologist Alison Gopnik discusses her research on the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
Death: A Personal Understanding Video Series: In this Annenberg Learner, 10 episode video, the process of death and dying is explored.
Testing, Measurement and Assessment Resources
Finding and Selecting Psychological Tests and Assessment Measures: Guidance from the APA about finding information and specifics about published and unpublished psychological tests.
Do standardized tests matter? | Nathan Kuncel: In this TED video, discusses what can be learned from standardized tests.
Learning and Behavior Resources
Three Myths of Behavior Change - What You Think You Know That You Don't: In this TED video, Jeni Cross, a sociology professor at Colorado State University, discusses her work around changing behaviors.
The difference between classical and operant conditioning: In this TED video, Peggy Andover discusses how the brain can associate unrelated stimuli and responses, proved by Ivan Pavlov's famous 1890 experiments, and how reinforcement and punishment can result in changed behavior.
Thesis and Capstone Resources
Thesis or Capstone - Which is for Me?: Review this document to help you understand what a “Thesis” is and what a “Capstone” is.
Misc. Psychology Videos
Positive Psychology: In this TED video, Martin Seligman talks about the field of psychology, current and future.
Psychology of Self-Motivation: In this TED video, Scott Geller examines how we can become self-motivated in "The Psychology of Self-Motivation."
Psychology of Evil: In this TED video, Philip Zimbardo shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. He talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero and how we can rise to the challenge.
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory: In this TED video, Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently.
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self: In this TED video, Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time.
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of time: In this TED video, Philip Zimbardo discusses how happiness and success are rooted in the way we orient toward the past, present, and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.
Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend: Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken, and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.
Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?: In this TED video, Russell Foster shares three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages, and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Culture: In this TED video, Saba Safdar shares about cultural diversity and its study in the field of Psychology.
Happiness 101 with Tal Ben-Shahar: Tal Ben Shahar shares about the foundations of the study of Positive Psychology.