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Psychology

- an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychologists attempt to explain the mind and brain in the context of real life and study such phenomena as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including issues related to daily life - e.g. family, education, and work and the treatment of mental health problems - Wikipedia.

Social Psychology

perspectives, research methods, and empirical findings of social psychology, impression formation, conformity, prosocial behavior, interpersonal attraction, persuasion, stereotyping and prejudice, social situations and events, critical and integrative ways of thinking about theory and research in social psychology

Lecture Notes for a Course in Abnormal Psychology

definitions of abnormality, classification, philosophical issues, disorders (anxiety, mood), schizophrenia, models of psychopathology, personality disorders, psychological factors & physical illness, psychoactive substance use disorders, sexual disorders, childhood psychopathology, deinstitutionalization, mental illness & mouse traps, references

Psychological Measurement & Data Analysis

basic statistics and measurement concepts, statistics in research situations and in everyday
“news clipping” situations: lab & other resources

Introduction to Personality Psychology

overview of the contemporary study of personality and its theoretical background, current research and theory on specific personality topics, Examples of topics (personality units, social-environmental determinants of personality, personality development, personality assessment, self-concept and self-esteem, emotion and coping, cultural personality psychology): exam study guides

Introduction to Statistics

presented in an experimental psychology context, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal curve, correlation, elementary probability theory, hypothesis testing, t test: Labs, Java Demos

Psychology - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • Dialogical Net, Psychology Virtual Library - topics of Psychology, Social Sciences, and Stress: academic depts, basic academic psychology, books & publishers, clinical social work, directories or guides, links, e-mail lists & newsgroups, employment - entrepreneurship, history, journals (electronic & print), library resources online, mental health resources, professional societies, religion, school psychology, stress management, transpersonal psychology, what's new

  • Encyclopedia of Psychology - career, environment behavior relationships, organizations, paradigms & theories, people & history, publications & documents, resources ( discussion, doing research, ethical issues, how to study, humor, legal issues, metasites, news, pseudoscience, reference, research technology, software, statistics, teaching, writing), underlying reductionistic machinery

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Introduction to Psychology

perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams, how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, how they break down due to illness and injury

Positive Psychology

psychological aspects of a fulfilling and flourishing life, happiness, self-esteem, empathy, friendship, love, achievement, creativity, music, spirituality, humor: Readings

Psychology of Language

introduction to psycholinguistics, basic units of language, neuropsychology of language, language development/acquisition, non-human language

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