This site contains an online textbook, study questions, and quiz questions, for anyone who wants to learn about some topics in general psychology.I will continue to revise the textbook and other material on this site. The site originally was developed for my students at Scottsdale community College in Scottsdale, Arizona. Now that I have retired, I will be revising the site so that it has a more general application for those who want to learn about psychology. If you have any comments, please email me at drjeffryricker@gmail.com
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- Section 3-15: Neurons
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- An Introduction to the Psychological Sciences
- CHAPTER 1 – DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC THEORIES
- CHAPTER 2 – ALTERED STATES: SLEEPING AND DREAMING
- CHAPTER 3 – THE STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN
- CHAPTER 4: ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING
- CHAPTER 5: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING
- CHAPTER 6: SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON MIND AND BEHAVIOR
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- Section 1-1: What is Psychology?
- Section 1-2: What is Science?
- Section 1-3: The Confirmation Bias
- Section 1-4: What Is A Theory?
- Section 1-5: Evaluating Scientific Theories
- Section 1-6: What Is A Cause?
- Section 2-1: What Is Consciousness?
- Section 2-2: What is an Altered State of Consciousness?
- Section 2-3: Subjectivity & Suggestibility
- Section 2-4: Objective Definitions & Testable Claims
- Section 2-5: The Brain-Mind Theory
- Section 2-6: Consciousness & Brain Activity
- Section 2-7: Understanding Means & Variances
- Section 2-8: Stages of Sleep
- Section 2-9: Changes In Sleep Over Time
- Section 2-10: What Causes Sleep?
- Section 2-11: REM Sleep & Dreaming
- Section 2-12: What Causes REM Sleep?
- Section 2-13: The Mind-Body Problem
- Section 3-1: Overview of the Nervous System
- Section 3-2: Case Studies
- Section 3-3: Correlational Studies
- Section 3-4: The Brain Stem
- Section 3-5: The Limbic System
- Section 3-6: Overview of the Cerebral Cortex
- Section 3-7: The Occipital Lobes
- Section 3-8: The Parietal Lobes
- Section 3-9: The Temporal Lobes
- Section 3-10: The Frontal Lobes
- Section 3-11: Working Memory
- Section 3-12: Brain Plasticity
- Section 3-13: The Corpus Callosum
- Section 3-14: Split-Brain Surgery
- Section 5-1: Experimental Studies (Part 2)
- Section 5-2: Behaviorism Re-Assessed
- Section 5-3: The Cognitive Approach
- Section 5-4: Understanding Memory
- Section 5-5: Encoding, Storing, & Retrieving Memories
- Section 5-6: The Standard Model of Memory
- Section 5-7: Sensory Memory
- Section 5-8: Short-Term Memory
- Section 5-9: Working Memory
- Section 5-10: Working Memory & Elaborative Rehearsal
- Section 5-11: Long-Term Memory (Part 1)
- Section 5-12: Long-Term Memory (Part 2)
- Section 5-13: Semantic & Episodic Long-Term Memories
- Section 5-14: Retrieving Episodic Memories
- Section 5-15: Forgetting of Explicit Memories
- Section 5-16: Memory & the Psychodynamic Unconscious
- Section 5-17: Forgetting & False Memories
- Section 6-1: Social Psychology
- Section 6-2: Effects of Social Situations on Conformity
- Section 6-3: Effects of Social Situations on Task Performance
- Section 6-4: Obedience to Authority
- Section 6-5: Effects of Personality on Obedience
- Section 6-6: Effects of Social Situations on Obedience
- Section 6-7: Research Validity – Internal & External
- Section 6-8: Research Ethics
- Section 6-9: The Effects of Social Roles On Behavior
- Section 6-10: Automatic & Controlled Mental Processes
- Section 6-11: The Cognitive Unconscious
- Section 6-12: Social Cognition
- Practice Quiz Answers for Section 5-2
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- Section 4-2: Experimental Studies (Part 1)
- Section 4-3: Learning & Abnormal Behavior
- Section 4-4: The History of Experimental Psychology (Part 1)
- Section 4-5: The History of Experimental Psychology (Part 2)
- Section 4-6: Behaviorism & Mental Causes
- Section 4-7: Behaviorism & Biological Causes
- Section 4-8: Behaviorism & Free Will
- Section 4-9: Classical Conditioning
- Section 4-10: The Classical Conditioning of Phobias
- Section 4-11: What Happened to Little Albert?
- Section 4-12: Behavioral Treatments of Phobias
- Section 4-13: Stimulus Generalization & Discrimination
- Section 4-14: Evolution & Learning
- Section 4-15: Instrumental Learning
- Section 4-16: Operant Conditioning
- Section 4-17: Reinforcement & Punishment in Operant Conditioning
- Section 4-18: Learning & the Development of Mental Disorders