University of California
Ucmp: Dino Facts a Unit on Dinosaur Behavior
For this unit, young scholars look at what is known about three dinosaurs - Maiasaura, Troodon and Orodromeus - and learn how paleontologists develop hypotheses about their behavior.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Non Ideal Behavior of Gases
Find out how real gases differ from ideal gases, and when intermolecular attractions and gas molecule volume matter.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
An intermediate level course in microeconomics from MIT. Includes suggested readings, lecture notes, assignments, and exams.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Wavelike Behaviors of Light
How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
Other
Learning Theory: Reinforcement
This site has a nice discussion on the nature and use of reinforcement in learning theory. Describes the four major types of reinforcement and also the use of reinforcement schedules.
Other
Personality research.com: Cognitive Social Theories
Discusses cognitive theories of learned behavior including Bandura's Observational Learning (Social Learning).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simultaneous Hermaphroditism, Egg Trading, and Prisoner's Dilemma
This is a five-question quiz pertaining to game theory in the passage "Simultaneous hermaphroditism, egg trading, and the Prisoner's Dilemma."
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: Wavelike Behaviors of Light
In this series of interactive physics tutorials, students will focus on the wavelike nature of light.
Harvard University
Individual Rationality as a Useful Approximation
Comments on Tversky's "Rational Theory and Constructive Choice," by Alvin E. Roth, Economics professor at Harvard. This paper was originally presented at the IEA Conference on "Rationality in Economics," IEA 16-18, 1993, Torino, Italy,...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa
Two migration theories are on the table for consideration. Weigh the evidence of each one in this article by Donald Johanson of Lucy fame.
Other
Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Centre: Oceanography: Waves
A very detailed article on the characteristics of waves and wave behavior. It discusses the influence waves have on the marine environment and the global climate, the physics of wave motion, the interactions between waves and wind, wave...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Is Yawning Contagious?
*Yaaawwwwwn* Did just reading the word make you feel like yawning yourself? Known as contagious yawning, the reasons behind this phenomenon have been attributed to both the physiological and psychological. It's been observed in children...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Smith, Marx, and Keynes
Spanning three centuries of history, from the dawn of the industrial age to modern times, three diverse thinkers developed their own landmark theories on commerce, labor, and the global economy. The three economists profiled in this...
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fermilab Physicists Find New Matter Antimatter Asymmetry
This complicated yet interesting article describing the discovery of asymmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter.
Other
Mind: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Street Drugs
Information about the dangerous psychological effects of drugs and alcohol.
PBS
Pbs: A Science Odyssey
Website for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey." Numerous opportunities to explore the people and discoveries of science.
Other
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Anxiety in Athletes
A great deal of the literature on the relationship between anxiety and performance has come from a cognitive-behavioral perspective. This Athletic Insight paper examines the relationship between the two constructs from a psychodynamic...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Biology: Charles Darwin I: The Origin of Species
Instructional module focusing on the early work of Charles Darwin. Discusses Darwin's key role in supporting and describing the theory of evolution as driven by natural selection. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links...
Other
All Psych: Chapter 8: Section 2: Our View of Self and Others
Looks at attribution theory, and error and bias in interpreting the behavior of others. Goes on to list and describe factors that influence attraction to others.
Other
Simply Psychology: Saul Mc Leod: Erik Erikson
An article featuring ego psychologist, Erik Erikson's research of psychosocial behavior in humans. Understand the eight stages of his theory.
Other
All Psych: Chapter 3: Section 3: Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
Erikson and Piaget both studied human behavior to determine that we develop in the same system. While Piaget focused on cognitive development, solely intellectual, Erikson was drawn to explore the systematic stages of human psychosocial...
Other
Prehistoric Planet: Robert T. Bakker: Legend of Paleontology
Robert T. Bakker is a paleontologist from Wyoming, known for his enthusiastic approach to understanding the behavior and lives of dinosaurs. He has propounded many controversial ideas about dinosaurs, some of which are described here.
Other
Concordia: Defense Mechanisms
Lists and describes defense mechanisms. Provides an exercise for readers to match situations/behaviors with a defense mechansism.
Other
Nicky Case: The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds
Why do some crowds turn to madness and other crowds turn to wisdom? Network science seeks to explain groupthink with its core idea being we should not study the individual people, but their connections. Use this interactive site to...