The project proposed an Open Educational Resources (OER) curriculum for the sections …
The project proposed an Open Educational Resources (OER) curriculum for the sections of Introduction to Psychology, that include Global Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies (GS/PAC) topics. Contents of this work have been adopted, adapted, and remixed from two existing open textbooks. The author’s own content was then added to reflect GS and PAC.
This book was created by the students of PSY 3031: Sensation and …
This book was created by the students of PSY 3031: Sensation and Perception, as a class project, because there is no existing open-source textbook for S&P. Content is, for the most part, re-used and re-mixed from existing open-source materials from Psychology and Anatomy and Psychology textbooks. We wanted to create a resource with a stronger neuroscience foundation than your average psychology textbook, with strong links between physiology and perception. The final product will always be a work in progress, but hopefully a useful collection of materials to support college-level courses that want to understand how human physiology supports human perceptual experiences. The course has two over-arching themes or guiding principles, both of which rest on the basic understanding that perception is an interpretive act, which means that our perceptions are sometimes only loosely based on our sensory experiences: Our brains shape our environment: there are many things that we simply do not perceive because we are not prepared to perceive them; and our environments shape our brains: color categories and phonetic boundaries are just two examples of how our conscious access to sensory information is limited by the culture we grew up in.
This textbook is an introduction to statistics for psychology. It will help …
This textbook is an introduction to statistics for psychology. It will help answer the questions: What is statistical thinking? How data is organized, described, and how inferences are made about data? What are the different statistical tests out there? When can they be used? How do you interpret them? How to critically evaluate statistics? How to be a wise consumer of psychological information, by understanding statistics, to make better decisions for your health and well-being?
This textbook is an introduction to Psychology. It covers how psychologists think, …
This textbook is an introduction to Psychology. It covers how psychologists think, principles of memory, learning, and thinking; human nature, human development, the social world, and wellbeing.
This course is an investigation to distinguish episodic memory, which is memory …
This course is an investigation to distinguish episodic memory, which is memory of personal events, from semantic memory, which is general knowledge independent of time and place.
Teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design …
Teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical analysis. Combines lectures and hands-on experimental exercises; requires an independent experimental project. Some experience in programming desirable. To foster improved writing and presentation skills in conducting and critiquing research in cognitive science, students are required to provide reports and give oral presentations of three team experiments; a fourth individually conducted experiment includes a proposal with revision, and concluding written and oral reports.
" 9.63 teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, …
" 9.63 teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical analysis. The course combines lectures and hands-on experimental exercises and requires an independent experimental project. Some experience in programming is desirable. To foster improved writing and presentation skills in conducting and critiquing research in cognitive science, students are required to provide reports and give oral presentations of three team experiments. A fourth individually conducted experiment includes a proposal with revision, and concluding written and oral reports."
Lectures, reading, and discussion of current theory and data concerning the psychology …
Lectures, reading, and discussion of current theory and data concerning the psychology and biology of language acquisition. Emphasizes learning of syntax and morphology, together with some discussion of phonology, and especially research relating grammatical theory and learnability theory to empirical studies of children.
Seminar in real-time language comprehension. Models of sentence and discourse comprehension from …
Seminar in real-time language comprehension. Models of sentence and discourse comprehension from the linguistic, psychology, and artificial intelligence literature, including symbolic and connectionist models. Ambiguity resolution. Linguistic complexity. The use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual and prosodic information in language comprehension. The relationship between the computational resources available in working memory and the language processing mechanism. The psychological reality of linguistic representations.
Humans have the capacity to use complex language, far more than any …
Humans have the capacity to use complex language, far more than any other species on Earth. We cooperate with each other to use language for communication; language is often used to communicate about and even construct and maintain our social world. Language use and human sociality are inseparable parts of Homo sapiens as a biological species.
This course will address some fundamental questions regarding human language: (1) How …
This course will address some fundamental questions regarding human language: (1) How language is represented in our minds; (2) how language is acquired by children; (3) how language is processed by adults; (4) the relationship between language and thought; (5) exploring how language is represented and processed using brain imaging methods; and (6) computational modeling of human language acquisition and processing.
Losing a parent can be a devastating experience for any child, but …
Losing a parent can be a devastating experience for any child, but there are specific struggles that accompany early maternal loss for the daughter. Author Hope Edelman, who lost her mother to breast cancer, researches and writes extensively on this topic. Using Edelman as the foundation, this paper will explore how maternal loss during childhood and adolescence impacts women throughout their lifetime, from teenage identity struggles to becoming mothers themselves.
Analyzes - through lectures, discussions, and class exercises - the human processes …
Analyzes - through lectures, discussions, and class exercises - the human processes underlying organizational behavior. Through lectures, discussions, and class exercises, 15.322 analyzes the human processes underlying organizational behavior and change. The class makes students aware of the challenge of organizational change and equips them to better handle it. There are many psychological and sociological phenomena that regularly occur in organizations, though many of these forces are difficult to see. The aim is to increase the students' understanding of these forces -- in themselves and in others -- so they become more visible and manageable.
Purpose Learning theories help to explain many things in the life of …
Purpose Learning theories help to explain many things in the life of a student, from dating behaviors, to studying behaviors, to test anxiety, to confidence in sports and activities, to learning better study habits just by watching other peers. The purpose of this project is to master learning theories by applying them to the student experience.
This will be done in two ways: 1. Application – Many students can understand textbook or online examples of different types of learning, but have difficulty applying that knowledge to multiple contexts. An ability to apply displays better learning. 2. Integration – The three learning theories are often not mutually exclusive in real-world experiences. An ability to integrate them displays better learning.
This is a YouTube channel with about three dozen short (15 min) …
This is a YouTube channel with about three dozen short (15 min) talks about various topics related to learning and behavior or conditioning and learning. The talks cover the full range of topics typically included in a course on learning, including habituation, classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, schedules of reinforcement, theories of reinforcement, behavioral economics, the Premack principle, extinction, stimulus control, and memory, The talks were written and delivered by Michael Domjan, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and are based on Domjan's popular textbooks, The Principles of Learning and Behavior (published by Cengage) and The Essentials of Conditioning and Learning (published by the American Psychological Association). The number of talks and range of topics is sufficient to make up all of the lectures needed for a course on learning.
"Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students" includes a facilitator’s …
"Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students" includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable resource offers a sensitive, respectful, and detailed training on suicide awareness and response. It can be used for two-hour synchronous training or for self-study.
Introduction to Lifespan DevelopmentLifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes …
Introduction to Lifespan DevelopmentLifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.
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