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  2. Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to intro students. The author wrote this book to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.

  3. In this module, you will learn about foundational psychological theories and findings in psychology. We will start with the discovery that our mental lives have a physical basis, introducing the field of neuroscience.

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    • The History and Methods of Psychology. "Psychology has a long past but a short history." This brief statement by one of the pioneers of psychological research, Herman Ebbinghaus, captures the history of psychology as a discipline.
    • Neuroscience. What makes you "you"? This question gets to the heart of one of the longest-running debates in psychology: the nurture versus nature dispute, which asks whether humans are a product of their environment or of their biological makeup.
    • Sensation and Perception. As human beings, we perceive our world through our senses. This means that we are constantly performing a complex set of processes by which we take in sensory information, convert it into a form usable by the brain, and have the brain send signals to a relevant part of the body in order to tell it how to respond - all in a matter of milliseconds.
    • Learning and Memory. Psychologists are concerned with how people learn and create memories of their experiences. For example, early psychologists such as Ivan Pavlov and B. F. Skinner performed experiments that explained human action by measuring changes in behavior.
  4. Offered by University of Toronto. This course will highlight the most interesting experiments within the field of psychology, discussing the ... Enroll for free.

  5. About the Book. Psychology 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research.

  6. Introduction; 1.1 What Is Psychology? 1.2 History of Psychology; 1.3 Contemporary Psychology; 1.4 Careers in Psychology; Key Terms; Summary; Review Questions; Critical Thinking Questions; Personal Application Questions

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