Psychology resources on-line

 

What is a Reference?

 

Click here for online version of Eliza, Computer Therapist.

 

Click here for exploration of face recognition, quiz and theory.

 

Click here to test your memory by actually drawing droodles from memory and understand the theory. If you're like most people, you will do better drawing the droodles when the title made the picture into a joke

 

Click here for some activities to test your memory.

 

Click here to see how certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge the size of a circle, or the length of a line.

 

Click here for an interactive prisoner’s dilemma and theory.

 

Click here for an interactive Tower of Hanoi

 

Click here to find out about the mind using actual research (includes video) and theory. Also includes interactive experiments (e.g. http://epsych.msstate.edu/descriptive/Vision/Flicker/Flicker9.html).

 

Click here for famous visual illusions.

 

Click here for Brain Imaging Movies from the MNI.

 

Click here to see how your eye copes with shading.  The grey stripes on both sides are the same shade. When you change the position of the stripes, they seem to get lighter and darker. This illusion is not fully understood, but it seems to have something to do with the way your eye determines relative shading.

 

Click here for the Depth Spinner: Mechanisms in your eye and brain detect inward and outward motion. When something is standing still, the receptors detecting inward motion are in balance with the receptors detecting outward motion.

 

Click here to find out about Psychologists and test yourself with hot potatoes quizzes.

 

 

 

 

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