Psych 2.0 Online Experience Guide

Overview

Psych 2.0: It's what you need. Are you looking for a solution for online or hybrid courses? A set of engaging content-based activities to reinforce the foundational concepts in your lectures and reading assignments? Want to integrate or upgrade a lab, recitation section, or more course activities? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, Psych 2.0 is for you.

Table of contents

Student Activities in Psych 2.0

New activities are marked with *. The instructor site includes all student content, plus related instructional material.

Psychological Perspectives
Multiple Causes of Behavior
Five Perspectives in Psychology
Subfields and Careers*


Science and Methodology
The Scientific Method
Naturalistic Observation
Self-Report Bias in Surveys
Correlation
Designing an Experiment: Dependent and Independent Variables*
Ethical Dilemmas


The Brain and Behavior
The Structure of Neurons
Areas and Functions of the Brain
Brain Lateralization
Localization of Function: 2nd Language Learning and Brain Plasticity*


Sensation and Perception
Weber’s Law
How Do We See?
Basic Sensory Processes*
Perception: Integrating the Senses*
Top-down v Bottom-up processing*
Depth Perception
Visual Illusions*


States of Consciousness
REM Sleep: Thinking*
REM Sleep: Dreaming*
Drug Effects
Hypnosis*


Learning
Classical Conditioning: Pavlov's Dogs
Classical Conditioning and Advertising*
Operant Conditioning: Teaching a Dog New Tricks
Reinforcement and Punishment*
Shaping
Schedules of Reinforcement*
Observational Learning: Monkey See, Monkey Do*


Memory
Sensory Memory
Working Memory: Decay v Interference
Working Memory: Putting Memory to Work*
Long Term Memory
Levels of Processing: Transferring Information from Short Term Memory to Long Term Memory
Eyewitness Fallibility: Witnessing a Crime
Eyewitness Fallibility: Focusing Attention*
Alzheimer's Disease


Language, Cognition, and Intelligence
Thinking and Reasoning: Centenarians*
Heuristics
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
IQ Tests: Are they accurate measures of intelligence?*
Group Differences in IQ*
Mental Retardation: Down Syndrome*
Language Development*


Motivation and Emotion
The Need for Achievement
Emotion: Language of the Face*
Emotion: Body Language*
Detection of Deception


Sexuality and Gender
Gender Stereotypes: Implicit Associations Test
Sexual Response: Masters and Johnson*
Sex and Medicine: Sex, Sin, and Sickness*
Sex and Medicine: Alfred Kinsey*
Biological Aspects of Sexuality: Sexual Identity*
Adolescence: Sexual Identity*
Sexual Response: Viagra*
Science of Sexuality: Evolutionary Psychology & Mate Selection*
Adulthood: Interracial Relationships*


Development
Nature and Nurture
Genes and Behavior: Twin Studies*
Infant Vision: Seeing Through the Eyes of a Child*
Cognitive Development: Categorization*
Conservation
Stages of Moral Development
Adolescence: Adolescent Development*
Suicide Risk Factors


Personality
Defense Mechanisms
Your Ideal Self
Trait Theory of Personality*
Personality Assessment


Health Psychology
College Stress Test
Type A Behavior


Abnormal Psychology, Therapy and Treatment
Distinguishing Abnormality: A Continuum Approach*
Understanding the DSM
Depression*
Bipolar Disorder
Phobia
Anxiety Disorder*
Schizophrenia
Historical Perspectives: Treatment of Schizophrenia*
Substance Abuse*
Eating Disorders*
Borderline Personality Disorder
Systematic Desensitization
Compare and Contrast Approaches to Therapy


Social Psychology
Fundamental Attribution Error
Prejudice
Social Cognition: Stereotype Threat*
Asch's Conformity Study*
Milgram’s Obedience Study*
The Stanford Prison Study: How Power Corrupts*
First Impressions and Attraction
Social Neuroscience: Using fMRI to Study Morality*