Teaching Take-Out
Resources for Psychology Courses
Association for Psychological Science Teaching Resources
The APS offers teaching resources for many of our undergraduate courses under these
headings: General Material, Behavioral, Biological, Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental,
Educational, Forensic, Health, History and Systems, Research Methods, Sensation and
Perception, Social, and Statistics.
Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations
Resources on several course content areas including Cognitive, Developmental, Learning,
Research & Statistics, and Social; especially rich in Neuroscience and Sensation/Perception.
OTRP Teaching Resources in Psychology
Classroom activities, annotated bibliographies, film guides, lab manuals, advising
aids, textbook compendiums, and much more. Topics include Child Development, Diversity,
Environmental, Educational, Ethical Issues, Film in Psychology, History, Human Sexuality,
International Psychology, Introductory, Learning, Physiological, Psychology and Law,
Research and Teaching, and Sensation & Perception.
Project Syllabus
Peer-reviewed syllabi in more than 30 psychology course categories including Abnormal,
Capstone, Careers/Major, Clinical, Cognitive, Community, Developmental, Diversity,
Educational, Ethics, Health, History, Human Sexuality, Industrial/Organizational,
Language, Learning, Motivation, Online/Hybrid, Personality, Physiological, Psychology
& Law, Personality, Religion, Research Methods, Sensation & Perception, Social, Statistics,
Teaching, Tests & Measurements, and Women & Gender.
General Psychology (Introductory)
Discovering Psychology
This is the companion website for Philip Zimbardo’s General Psychology video course.
History of Psychology
Today in the History of Psychology
"The American Psychological Association Historical Database is a collection of dates
and brief descriptions of over 3100 events in the history of psychology." Search by
date or by keywords.
Personality Psychology
Personality Pedagogy
A Wiki of resources for the teaching of personality psychology
Physiological Psychology
Brief Video on Dangers of Stress
Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University,
reveals just how dangerous prolonged exposure to stress can be in the documentary,
"Stress: Portrait of a Killer."
Mouse Party
An animated cartoon that illustrates “chemical interactions at the synaptic level
that cause the drug user to feel ‘high’.”
Research and Statistics
APA Online Psychology Laboratory
Highly interactive resources for the teaching of psychological science. The peer-reviewed
materials include online studies and correlational studies, large data sets, demonstrations,
and teaching aids.
Khan Academy
A library of over 2400 brief instructional videos on topics including statistics,
probability, algebra, developmental math, and biology. Potentially useful for review
of math and statistical skills.
Open Stats Lab
This website provides links to articles published in Psychological Science, their associated open data sets, and assignments for undergraduate students that
involve analyses matching those in the original articles. Using the data from published
articles allows students to match their statistical outcomes with those reported in
the publications. Activities include t-tests, correlation, regression, one-way ANOVA,
and factorial ANOVA in both SPSS and .csv formats.
TeachPsycScience
This website focuses on Psychological Research Methods/Statistics and provides handouts
and instructions for interesting activities (e.g., observational coding activity of
Sponge Bob Square Pants) that aid in helping students understand course related content.
The activities are submitted by instructors and are peer-reviewed before placement
on the website.