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Course Syllabus

PSYCH101: Introduction to Psychology

Course Introduction

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology

1.1: What Is Psychology?

1.2: History of Psychology

1.3: The Importance of Psychological Research and Its Approaches

1.4: Analyzing Findings

1.5: Ethics

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Biological Bases of Behavior

2.1: Biopsychology and Human Genetics

2.2: Cells of the Nervous System

2.3: Parts of the Nervous System

2.4: The Brain and Spinal Cord

2.5: The Endocrine System

2.6: What Is Consciousness?

2.7: Sleep and Why We Sleep

2.8: Stages of Sleep

2.9: Sleep Problems and Disorders

2.10: Substance Use and Abuse

2.11: Other States of Consciousness

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Sensation and Perception

3.1: Sensation versus Perception

3.2: Waves and Wavelengths

3.3: Vision

3.4: Hearing

3.5: The Other Senses

3.6: Gestalt Psychology

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Learning

4.1: What Is Learning?

4.2: Classical Conditioning

4.3: Operant Conditioning

4.4: Observational Learning

Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

5.1: What Is Cognition?

5.2: Language

5.3: Problem-Solving

5.4: What Are Intelligence and Creativity?

5.5: Measures of Intelligence

5.6: The Source of Intelligence

5.7: How Memory Functions

5.8: Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory

5.9: Problems with Memory

5.10: Ways to Enhance Memory

Unit 5 Assessment

Unit 6: Developmental Psychology

6.1: What Is Lifespan Development?

6.2: Lifespan Theories

6.3. Stages of Development

6.4: Death and Dying

Unit 6 Assessment

Unit 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality

7.1: Motivation

7.2: Hunger and Eating

7.3: Sexual Behavior

7.4: Emotion

7.5: Personality Psychology

7.6: Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective

7.7: Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney

7.8: Learning Approaches

7.9: Humanistic Approaches

7.10: Biological Approaches

7.11: Trait Theorists

7.12: Cultural Understandings of Personality

7.13: Personality Assessment

Unit 7 Assessment

Unit 8: Clinical Psychology

8.1: What Are Psychological Disorders?

8.2: Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders

8.3: Perspectives on Psychological Disorders

8.4: Anxiety Disorders

8.5: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

8.6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

8.7: Mood and Related Disorders

8.8: Schizophrenia

8.9: Dissociative Disorders

8.10: Disorders in Childhood