This resource describes how Pavlov's early work in classical conditioning influenced the understanding of learning and explains the roles that extinction, generalization, and discrimination play in conditioned learning.
This video explains cognitive dissonance and provides opportunities for students to respond to multiple choice and discussion questions.
This article discusses the lesson researchers learned during the first era of psychosurgery.
This resource discusses the theory of moral development.
This resource explains who eye witness testimony can be unrealiable and influenced by leading questions.
In this lesson, students gain an understanding of Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs, identify human needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs, and identify personal needs.
This article explores the infuence of media on social norms and identity development of youth.
This unit plan teaches students about the encoding, storage, and retrieval of memory through five lessons and nine hands on activities.
This presentation discusses the treatment options available today for people with psychological disorders.
This resource describes various mental health treatments.
In this lesson, students learn how the body reacts to stress and evaluate the long-term effects of stress on people whose lives have been impacted by disasters and national tragedies.
This article discusses mere exposure effects in relation to racial prejudices.
This video explains the Milgram experiment on obedience.
This resource explores how the events and experiences that take place in the subconscious manifest themselves in our conscious lives. Students learn about repression, the distinction between discovered and false memory syndrome, hypnosis, and split-brain cases.
In this article, the author explores when children start to develop a sense of what is right or wrong. Along with this, they investigate if this skill comes from biology or society.
This presentation discusses motivation and emotion, including Maslow's Hierarchy of Motives and theories of emotions.
In this video, students are introduced to a neuroengineer who is developing brain-computer interfaces or devices that can monitor and extract brain activity to enable a machine or computer to accomplish tasks, from playing video games to controlling a prosthetic arm.
In this lesson, students experiment with what people hear when conversations are taking place simultaneously.
In this lesson, students view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.
This resource provides a definition of neurobiology.