Welcome to psychology class. The following materials are offered as open source resources for undergraduate and graduate psychology students and anyone interested in learning about psychology.
Personality Theory
Chapter 8: Learning Theory
Introduction to Learning Theory and Behavioral Psychology Introduction to Learning Theory and Behavioral Psychology Learning can be defined as the ...
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Chapter 9: Behavioral Theory Applications & Research
From Theory to Practical Application Behaviorism at Work Perhaps the biggest strength of behaviorism and the resulting social learning and ...
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Articles about Personality Development and Disorders
Above is a picture of a very cute kitten. Surely that picture warms your heart. If you don’t look at ...
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Spend much time on the internet, and you’ll see that online comment sections can easily degenerate into a swirling, toxic ...
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As I’ve written about before, a desire to be perfect can bring many imperfect consequences, from insomnia to binge eating ...
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You might suspect that people who engage in callous or manipulative behavior would tend to be emotionally colder. Intuitively, that ...
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When I see someone driving a fancy car, I generally assume two things about them: They have a lot of ...
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Psychopathology (Abnormal Psychology)
DSM-5-TR Mental Disorders
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Articles Focused on Psychopathology
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) is one of the founders of Humanistic Psychology. Along with Carl Rogers (1902-1987), Maslow stressed the importance ...
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Sigmund Freud continues to be an influential figure in the field of psychology for his development of psychoanalysis, a theory ...
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We are more connected and more lonely than ever. And this seems to be true across sex, age, race, and ...
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Media Psychology Technology, including social and other forms of media, is often considered neutral - its value is determined by ...
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First, A Little Psychology I've written before about social media use and how it can be both helpful and harmful ...
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Stress Is Good Stress can be bad but it can also be good. And even when it is bad, it ...
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Social Media and Mental Health Social media has become an open forum for discussing and sharing stories about mental health ...
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Social media use and mental health seems to have a love/hate relationship. Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) conducted a large study ...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, involves excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities that is out ...
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The diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has changed over the years as we learn more about how individuals ...
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