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PS 111 General Psychology SMWC

This text is designed for a one-semester college-level introduction to psychology course. It has been remixed from multiple open educational resources (OERs) to best meet the needs of students and instructors for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College’s PS 111 General Psychology course.

Social Sciences
Author
Sherry Schnake
Publisher
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
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Contents· 81 sections
  1. 01: Introduction to Psychology
  2. 1.01: Introducing and Defining Psychology
  3. 1.02: Why Psychology Relies on Empirical Methods Rather Than Intuition
  4. 1.03: The Scientific Method in Psychology
  5. 1.04: Descriptive Methods
  6. 1.05: Correlational and Experimental Methods
  7. 1.06: Ethics in Research Psychology
  8. 02: Brains Bodies and Behavior
  9. 2.01: The Neuron is the Building Block of the Nervous System
  10. 2.02: Our Brains Control Our Thoughts Feelings and Behavior
  11. 2.03: Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
  12. 2.04: Putting It All Together- The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
  13. 03: States of Consciousness
  14. 3.01: Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
  15. 3.02: Psychoactive Drugs
  16. 3.03: Substance Use Disorders
  17. 3.04: Other States of Consciousness
  18. 04: Growing and Developing
  19. 4.01: Conception and Prenatal Development
  20. 4.02: Infancy and Childhood- Exploring and Learning
  21. 4.03: Adolescence - Developing Independence and Identity
  22. 05: Sensation and Perception
  23. 5.01: Sensation versus Perception
  24. 5.02: Seeing
  25. 5.03: Hearing
  26. 5.04: Tasting Smelling and Touching
  27. 5.05: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
  28. 06: Learning
  29. 6.01: Introduction
  30. 6.02: What Is Learning
  31. 6.03: Classical Conditioning
  32. 6.04: Operant Conditioning
  33. 6.05: Observational Learning (Modeling)
  34. 07: Memory
  35. 7.01: Prelude to Memory
  36. 7.02: How Memory Functions
  37. 7.03: Ways to Enhance Memory
  38. 7.04: The Role of External and Internal Context in Retrieval
  39. 7.05: Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
  40. 7.06: Problems with Memory
  41. 08: Thinking and Language
  42. 8.01: Cognition and Cognitive Biases
  43. 8.02: Communicating With Others- The Development and Use of Language
  44. 09: Intelligence
  45. 9.01: Defining and Measuring Intelligence
  46. 9.02: Extremes of Intelligence
  47. 10: Motivation and Emotion
  48. 10.01: Motivation
  49. 10.02: Emotion
  50. 11: Stress Lifestyle and Health
  51. 11.01: Introduction
  52. 11.02: What Is Stress
  53. 11.03: Stressors
  54. 11.04: Stress and Illness
  55. 11.05: Regulation of Stress
  56. 11.06: The Pursuit of Happiness
  57. 12: Social Psychology
  58. 12.01: What Is Social Psychology
  59. 12.02: Conformity Compliance and Obedience
  60. 12.03: Prejudice and Discrimination
  61. 12.04: Relationships
  62. 12.05: The Psychology of Groups
  63. 12.06: Latane And Darley's Model Of Helping
  64. 13: Personality
  65. 13.01: What Is Personality
  66. 13.02: Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
  67. 13.03: Strengths Mixed Support and Limitations of Freud's Psychodynamic Perspective
  68. 13.04: Humanistic Approaches
  69. 13.05: Biological Approaches
  70. 13.06: Trait Theorists
  71. 14: Psychological Disorders
  72. 14.01: Psychological Disorder- What Makes a Behavior Abnormal
  73. 14.02: Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders- Fearing the World Around Us
  74. 14.03: Mood Disorders- Emotions as Illness
  75. 14.04: Schizophrenia- The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
  76. 14.05: Personality Disorders
  77. 15: Therapy
  78. 15.01: Reducing Disorder by Confronting It - Psychotherapy
  79. 15.02: Reducing Disorder Biologically- Drug and Brain Therapy
  80. 15.03: Evaluating Treatment and Prevention- What Works
  81. 15.04: Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation