Tools and Tech

Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around the interactive brain structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research. (Google app)

Provides a vast array of tools for psychological assessment including resources for use by practicing psychologists. Additionally, offers information for allied mental health professionals, educators, students and patients.

Assessments.com provides, “best-of-breed tools for administering research-validated assessment instruments over the Internet.” Users can collect data using hand-picked assessment instruments, create action plans based on their findings, and generate outcome reports to assess change.

MERLOT stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. The MERLOT II’s Psychology Community Portal is a clearinghouse of information on psychology in a huge range of subjects and variety of forms.

Describes itself as a “dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content.” It allows authors to share their work with learners who can download and view that work anytime, anywhere on almost any e-device. Sponsored by Rice University.

Huge comprehensive listing of known psychology-related research projects administered online. Researchers, including those at colleges and universities around the world, can post their studies here to solicit participants.