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Jun 1, 2020 · 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.
Psychology is best defined as the "scientific study of behavior in humans and animals." Behavior is what people and animals do: e.g., what a person says about last night's dream, and how long it takes a rat to run a maze.
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From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Jun 10, 2015 · Psychology 2e is a comprehensive introductory psychology resource. The text covers all of the recommended APA Introduction to Psychology chapters and includes additional chapters not covered in most Introductory Psychology texts (Industrial and Organizational Psych).
1 The Science of Psychology 1 What Is Psychology? 3 The Breadth of Psychology 3 Enduring Issues 7 Psychology as Science 8 Critical Thinking: Thinking Like a Scientist 9 The Growth of Psychology as a Science 11 The “New Psychology”: A Science of the Mind 12 Redefining Psychology: The Study of Behavior 14 The Cognitive Revolution 15
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Involves 5 questions: What am I being asked to believe? Is there evidence to support the claim? Can that evidence be interpreted in another way? What evidence would help to evaluate the alternatives What conclusions are most reasonable? Keys to critical thinking:
