Welcome to the wonderful world of psychology! This podcast is the audio segment of the course at http://www.introtopsych.com. It comprises the topics found to be most important based on a survey of 761 introductory psychology teachers at 490 schools (Miller & Gentile, 1998). These topics include introduction/methods, neuroscience, sensation/perception, learning, memory, thinking/intelligence, developmental psychology, personality, social psychology, and abnormal psychology. In addition, I have worked in sections on cognitive biases, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, along with...
How do psychologists classify thinking and behavior as “abnormal”? In this chapter we discuss just that by looking at the. . .
Published 01/12/17
Social psychology is the study of humans as social animals, that is the way that we influence one anothers’ behavior and th. . .
Published 01/12/17
While psychologists cannot entirely agree on one definition of personality, this text uses the definition most people think o. . .
Published 01/12/17