Explains what attribution theory is and two major models, including the Correspondent Inference Theory and the Covariation Model.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Explains and compares the three types of memory in the information processing model, which are sensory, working, and long-term memory. Implications for teaching are also outlined.

A short biography about the Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.

Learn about different leadership styles and decide which one works best for your situation and personality. Because there is no "right" way to lead in every situation, the different styles and theories of leadership presented here can...

This article analyzes how game theory can decipher the motivations and actions of countries in a nuclear standoff. Play an interactive game to see how much risk you would be willing to take! Apply what you learn to our situation with...

Learn about different leadership styles and decide which one works best for your situation and personality. Because there is no "right" way to lead in every situation, the different styles and theories of leadership presented here can...

A nice site that breaks down into three sections: "what is the circle of fifths", "finding key signatures" and "guitar tuning and the circle of fifths."

Examines mass media and its relationship with society. In the past, it was a one-way relationship and mass media influenced society. Now it works in both directions, with society providing feedback to and influencing mass media. The...

A biography of psychologist, Jean Piaget, highlighting his theories of cognitive development in children. Identify and understand specifics of the three key parts of his cognitive theory.

Two migration theories are on the table for consideration. Weigh the evidence of each one in this article by Donald Johanson of Lucy fame.

View Plato's dialogues organized into a system of seven tetralogies - meaning that each is composed of four dialogues or discourses. Includes links for further information on each. Great starting place for learning more about Plato and...

An explanation of the three fundamental assumptions of the cognitive dissonance theory. Also presents an experiment that was conducted as an example that shows how the theory works.

Examines the impact mass media is having on societies through the lenses of three sociological theories - Functionalism, Interactionism, and Conflict Theory. (Published: August 30, 2010)

Explains the history of the lost Roanoke Colony and the various theories about what may have happened to the colonists. Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World, yet no one knows what eventually happened to her.

Provides an overview of the theories of language acquisition put forward by B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky. Includes two videos.

The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal. The trial featured two of the...

UCLA Physics presents three documents here on Maria Goeppert Mayer, including a brief biography, a longer biography, and a physics meeting address on Mayer and the specifics of her work in nuclear physics.

Find out about one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, David Hilbert.

Read about one of the greatest and most influential paleontologists of all time, George Gaylord Simpson.

Minutes after its take off from New York's Kennedy International Airport, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris exploded midair over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, leaving all 230 people aboard dead. The...

Read about the life and work Ernst Mayr, one of 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

Learn about German Physiologist, Theodor Schwann, one of the scientists who helped develop the cell theory.

Learn about the life and work of one of the pioneers of quantum physics, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli.

This page discusses social cognition related to traffic safety strategies and youth characteristics. Some topics discussed are attribution, social schemata, and scripts.