This case explores the fundamental principles of memory, eyewitness accuracy, and police questioning techniques in witness identification in a crim ...
In this case study, designed to help break down stereotypes about scientists and engineers, students research the personal and professional lives o ...
This case describes a study conducted by students in which a number of ethical issues arise, including the treatment of research participants and t ...
An eight-year-old boy, abducted while walking home from day camp, is killed and dismembered, and his alleged murderer, a member of the boy's commun ...
This interrupted case study explores the scientific, legal, and societal complexities of repurposing an illicit substance, 3,4-methylenedioxymetham ...
This case study introduces students to treatment alternatives for depression using a jigsaw method in which groups of students are divided up so th ...
Using the story of death row inmate Charles Singleton, who developed paranoid schizophrenia while in prison awaiting execution, this case study exp ...
This directed case study follows two college roommates, Darrell and Anthony, who have just returned to school after winter vacation. They share tha ...
This case illustrates concepts of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment within the context of a counseling relationship. Its primary purpose is to t ...
This autobiographical case study presents the story of Eric as he learns that he has a genetic eye disease, which progresses to the point that he b ...
This case study is a fictional account of a romantic interlude in which a secret concerning the gender history of one of the characters is revealed ...
This case study on clinical practice, preparation, and acumen follows the story of Emily, an intelligent, hard working, and motivated student who y ...
This case study is designed to help students explore their attitudes about race and examine the complexity of racism. It also has been used to teac ...
This case study uses the example of ionic foot baths to examine how placebo treatments can affect our health and wellness. Inspired by a student&rs ...
This series of mini cases focuses on the cortical areas associated with vision and visual perception. Each case depicts a breakdown in visual perce ...
This directed case study explores the topic of color vision and its variations as experienced in humans. The case begins with a review of visual tr ...
In this interrupted case study, students cover concepts and terms related to classical and operant conditioning as they read about how "Joe," an an ...
In this interdisciplinary case, students meet Josie, the main character, who suffers from a variety of symptoms. Students must grapple with the con ...
This interdisciplinary case study introduces us to the Greens, a family with a recently diagnosed autistic child. Autism is one of several disorder ...
This collection of six short cases focuses on brain areas and neurotransmitters involved in the control of movement. Students are divided into work ...
This interdisciplinary case study uses the format of a progressive disclosure to explore certain advances in biotechnology and evaluate them within ...
In this interrupted case study, students learn about a series of studies conducted in the late '50s/early '60s by Robert Young at the University of ...
This case study examines the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late 1600s. It is designed to provide students with ...
This series of mini cases focuses on language deficits (aphasias) and their likely organic causes (problems in specific brain areas). Students read ...
This case study involves a couple deciding whether or not their son should undergo brain surgery to treat a severe seizure disorder. In examining t ...
This case study uses an example of racism experienced by a Korean American student to explore the concept of stereotype threat and its impact on co ...
Two friends debate whether people leave their parking spaces faster if others are waiting. They decide to see if they can design a study to test th ...
Recent research indicates that people who boast to friends and those who are modest to strangers are less able to regulate their behaviors on other ...
This case uses the real story of Dawn Langley Simmons, who may have been misidentified as male at birth, to illustrate the developmental basis of h ...
In this case study, students are given information regarding an advertisement claiming that listening to the classical music in the advertised CD s ...
This directed case study begins with an intentionally ambiguous story: Q suddenly realizes that it is time to relay a message to Z (another inhabit ...
In the 1983 Big Eight Conference championship football game, Neil Harris deflected a pass with 32 seconds to go in a play that stopped the Universi ...
This case examines a rare condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, in which an individual has a persistent and consuming desire to beco ...
This case study is based on a newspaper article about the suicide of Sherman Sizemore shortly after he underwent an exploratory laparotomy (abdomin ...
This case study explores cognitive dissonance theory, a theory proposed by psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956 to explain the tension that exists w ...