Psychologists are frequently innovators, evolving new approaches from established knowledge to meet changing needs of people and societies. They develop theories and test them through their research.
As this research yields new information, these findings become part of the body of knowledge that practitioners call upon, in their work with clients and patients.’’
Teaching psychology
APS, The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society), is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology. It's goals are to promote, protect, and advance the interest of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, and teaching.
The APS website at http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/teaching.html hosts 15 sections related to teaching of Psychological sciences. These include - General Material, Behavioural, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Health Psychology History and Systems, Research Methods, Sensation and Perception, Social Psychology, and Statistics.
The General Material section links to many websites, among them are : the ePsych! website, a site designed to teach about psychological processes in a rich experiential setting. Here, you can learn some amazing things about how the mind works. For example, The Practice Flicker Applet reveals that your eye doesn't see as much as you think!
A link to the lighter side of psychology takes us to The Lighter Side of Psych website. This site was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Internet's best humour sites, along with Dilbert, Letterman, and Dave Barry.
Among the links at The Behavioral section, the one leading to learning-therories.com is interesting.
The knowledge base at learning-therories.com features learning theories that address how people learn. The Behavioral section also provides a link to Negative Reinforcement University, a shockwave based exercise on negative reinforcement.
Biological Psychology
The section on Biological Psychology contains useful resources for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction. Another notable link is to The Whole Brain Atlas, a collection of images and movies.
Clinical Psychology
The Clinical Psychology section is dedicated to sharing resources and ideas on teaching clinical psychology, especially at the undergraduate level. The section on Cognitive Psychology provides a link to an Online Laboratory. You can perform some of the classic experiments in the field and get individual data.
The link to Psychology Experiments on the internet helps to access a collection of cognitive psychology and perception experiments. The Developmental Psychology section provides a couple of useful links - one to the Classic Theories of Child Development, an overview of the Erikson's, Freud's and Mahler's theories of development, and the other to lots of learning and teaching resources for developmental psychology, at DevPsy.org.
The Educational Psychology section has a useful list of a wide range of Internet sites that relate to educational psychology.
Forensic Psychiatry
The Forensic Psychiatry section connects to David Willshire's Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Links. It's all about psychology, psychiatry and mental health, psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, counselling and therapy, trauma, hypnosis, serial killers and crime, and much more!
The Sensation and Perception section has the links to The Joy of Visual Perception, a Web book by Peter Kaiser at York University, and Vischeck, a site with a programme that can simulate how images and web pages would look to people with different types of colour deficiencies.
A link to Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology by Jon Mueller, North Central College, can be found in the Social Psychology section. In the last section on Statistics, you will find links to these useful web pages - an interactive programme to illustrate the operation of the central limit theorem; a Statistics Glossary, a nice glossary of statistical terms;
The Chance Database, a database of resources for teaching probability and statistics including articles from newspapers and some journals; and Stat Trek, an online tutorial and collection of analysis programmes that can be run online.
The Association for Psychological Science has approximately 18,000 members and includes the leading psychological scientists and academics, clinicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators. Maintained by John H Krantz, Ph D, this website is well and truly advancing the scientific discipline and the giving away of psychology in the public interest.
