Online Psychology Labs (this webpage has moved to Psychology-labs.com)

Graphing in Excel (Activity): This lab teaches students how to use an Excel spreadsheet to create bar and line graphs and scatterplots. 

Longitudinal Drug Attitute (Survey Research): This experiment lab has a link to a survey about use and attitudes towards recreational drugs. Data has been collected since 2021. A datasheet is available for analysis. 

Neuroanatomy Scavenger Hunt (Activity): This lab uses an online interactive 3D image of the human brain. Students use the website to locate the names, images, and functions of different structures that they enter in a worksheet. 

Crescent Loom (Activity): This lab uses the interactive website, crescentloom.com to create creatures and a working nervous system.

Learn Genetics at 23andme (Activity): In this lab, students will go to a genetic testing site 23andme.com to use their interactive feature and a worksheet to learn about genetics.  

Sleep, Stress and the College Student (Survey Research): This lab has a link to a survey about sleep, stress, and the college experience. A datasheet is available for analysis as well as a link to results. 

Mouse Party (Activity): This lab uses a great interactive website that demonstrates how different recreational drugs affect the nervous system.  

Visual Illusions (Activity): In this lab, students visit the website https://michaelbach.de/ot/, which has wonderful interactive visual illusions. Students fill out a worksheet using this website. 

Stoop Task (Activity): This lab uses Psychtoolkit's version of the Stroop task. Students participate in the Stroop task and complete a worksheet. 

How We Are Conditioned (Activity): This lab has students watch commercials on YouTube and use a worksheet to identify how the advertisers used classical conditioning. 

Classical Conditioning and Caffeine (Experiment): This study has students learn a way of monitoring their heart rate (HR) to look at how anticipating drinking caffeine produces different changes to HR than when anticipating drinking water. They submit their results to a Qualtrics survey. An Excel spreadsheet is available for analysis. 

Mouse Maze (Activity): Students use an interactive website to navigate a mouse through a mouse maze. They keep track of their time on 10 trials and then graph their results showing an acquisition curve. A worksheet and Excel spreadsheet is available. 

Rating Images and Emotional States (Experiment): Students are linked to a Qualtrics survey where they answer questions about stress and mood, and then they rate images for arousal and valence (positive or negative). An Excel spreadsheet is available. 

Interactive Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions (Activity):  Students use an interactive website that has Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions, and fill out a worksheet as they navigate the website. 

Short-Term Memory (Experiment and Survey Reserach): This lab links students to a Qualtrics survey where they do a short memory task and then evaluate how they think they did. An Excel spreadsheet is available for analysis. 

Mirror Tracing Task (Activity): This lab uses an interactive lab where they trace shapes with the mouse working correctly and when the mouse works in the inverse (mirror) direction. They use a worksheet to keep track of their trials. 

Implicit Bias and the Implicit Association Test (IAT) (Activity): The lab uses the interactive website by Harvard University's Project Implicit website. Students participate in the IAT and take screenshots to prove they participated in the lab.

Risk and Sensation Seeking (Experiment and Survey Research): This lab uses a lab created at Psychtoolkit to evaluate sensation-seeking and risk-taking using the Iowa gambling task. A spreadsheet of data is available for analysis. 

Social Clock (Survey Research): This experiment uses a validated survey about a person's social clock. 

Mating Strategy and Time Perspective (Survey Reseach): This experiment investigates the relationship between time perspective and preference for short-term and long-term mates.

The Anatomy of Love (Activity): This uses a survey developed by anthropologist and sexologist Helen Fisher. It has a worksheet for students to prove they participated in the survey.  

Social Media and Sleep (Survey Research): This experiment links students to a survey that evaluates sleep and social media use. An Excel spreadsheet is available for students to evaluate. 

Individual Differences Research Lab (Activity): This lab links students to the Individual Differences Research Lab website. A worksheet is available where students record what they learned about different assessments. 

Personality Test (Survey Research): This is a survey that uses validated measures of personality traits. It also has a measure of a self-serving bias. 

Phobias (Activity): This lab uses the phobia list to find the names of different phobias. A worksheet is available to identify how such phobias might be created. The lab also discusses systematic desensitization as a treatment.  (In development)

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Gratitude Journal (Activity): This lab teaches students about the benefits of keeping a gratitude journal. It links the student to several websites that have good prompts for gratitude journals. It has a worksheet to demonstrate that they completed their gratitude journal.