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1. About This Course
2. Weekly Quizzes
3. Assignments
4. Discussions
5. Instructor Resources from OpenStax College
6. Instructor Resources from the Noba Project
7. Additional Resources
8. I Need Help
9. What Is Psychology?
10. History of Psychology
11. Contemporary Psychology
12. Video: Intro to Psychology
13. Careers in Psychology
14. Psychological Perspectives
15. Introduction to Psychological Research
16. Why Is Research Important?
17. Approaches to Research
18. Video: Psychological Research
19. Analyzing Findings
20. Ethics
21. Introduction to Biospychology
22. Human Genetics
23. Cells of the Nervous System
24. Video: The Chemical Mind
25. Parts of the Nervous System
26. The Brain and Spinal Cord
27. Video: Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain
28. The Endocrine System
29. Introduction to Sensation and Perception
30. Sensation versus Perception
31. Video: Sensation & Perception
32. Waves and Wavelengths
33. Vision
34. The Other Senses
35. Hearing
36. Video: Homunculus
37. Pain
38. Gestalt Principles of Perception
39. Video: Perceiving is Believing
40. Introduction to States of Consciousness
41. What Is Consciousness?
42. Video: Consciousness
43. Sleep and Why We Sleep
44. Stages of Sleep
45. Video: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
46. Sleep Problems and Disorders
47. Substance Use and Abuse
48. Other States of Consciousness
49. Video: Altered States
50. Introduction to Learning
51. What Is Learning?
52. Classical Conditioning
53. Operant Conditioning
54. Video: Reinforcement vs. Punishment
55. Video: How to Train a Brain
56. Video: The Bobo Beatdown
57. Observational Learning (Modeling)
58. Introduction to Memory
59. How Memory Functions
60. Video: How We Make Memories
61. Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
62. Problems with Memory
63. Video: Remembering and Forgetting
64. Ways to Enhance Memory
65. Introduction
66. What Is Cognition?
67. Video: Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You
68. Language
69. Video: Language
70. Problem Solving
71. What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
72. Video: Controversy of Intelligence
73. Measures of Intelligence
74. The Source of Intelligence
75. Video: Brains vs. Bias
76. Introduction to Lifespan Development
77. What Is Lifespan Development?
78. Lifespan Theories: Psychosexual and Psychosocial Theories
79. Lifespan Theories: Cognitive Development
80. Video: The Growth of Knowledge
81. Lifespan Theories: Moral Development
82. Stages of Development
83. Video: What Do Babies Think?
84. Video: Monkeys and Morality
85. Video: Adolescence
86. Death and Dying
87. Introduction to Motivation and Emotion
88. Motivation
89. Video: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
90. Video: The Power of Motivation
91. Hunger and Eating
92. Video: Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
93. Sexual Behavior
94. Video: Let's Talk About Sex
95. Video: Body Language
96. Emotion
97. Video: Feeling All the Feels
98. Introduction to Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
99. What Is Stress?
100. Stressors
101. Stress and Illness
102. Regulation of Stress
103. The Pursuit of Happiness
104. More on Happiness: The Science of Subjective Well-Being
105. Video: Emotion, Stress and Health
106. Video: How to Make Stress Your Friend
107. Introduction to Personality
108. What Is Personality?
109. Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
110. Video: Rorschach & Freudians
111. Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
112. Learning Approaches
113. Humanistic Approaches
114. Biological Approaches
115. Trait Theorists
116. Cultural Understandings of Personality
117. Personality Assessment
118. Video: Measuring Personality
119. Introduction to Psychological Disorders
120. What Are Psychological Disorders?
121. Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
122. Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
123. Video: Psychological Disorders
124. Anxiety Disorders
125. Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
126. Video: Debunking Myths of OCD
127. Video: OCD & Anxiety Disorders
128. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
129. Video: Trauma & Addiction
130. Mood Disorders
131. Video: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
132. Schizophrenia
133. Dissociative Disorders
134. Video: Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders
135. Personality Disorders
136. Video: Personality Disorders
137. Disorders in Childhood
138. Introduction to Therapy and Treatment
139. Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
140. Types of Treatment
141. Video: Getting Help - Psychotherapy
142. Video: Biomedical Treatments
143. Treatment Modalities
144. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
145. The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
146. Introduction to Social Psychology
147. What Is Social Psychology?
148. Video: Social Thinking
149. Self-presentation
150. Attitudes and Persuasion
151. Video: First Impressions
152. Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
153. Video: Social Influence
154. Prejudice and Discrimination
155. Resources: Prejudices and Stereotypes
156. Video: Prejudice & Discrimination
157. Aggression
158. Video: Aggression v. Altruism
159. Prosocial Behavior
160. Helping and Prosocial Behavior
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