Moving City Tech’s PSY 1101 to an OER…
Open Textbooks to use:
1. Psychology by OpenStax College
License: Creative Commons License 4.0 International.
Senior contributor: Rose M. Spielman, PhD.
Published: December 2014.
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2. Introduction to Psychology by Charles E. Stangor
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Broken down by syllabus topic(s):
| Navigational note: In OpenStax web view, please click on “Contents” in the upper left to see ALL chapter sections | ||
| DATE | TOPICS | OERs |
| Week One | Introduction to Psychology: What is psychology, early pioneers, classic and contemporary theories, areas of specialization | Ch. 1 – Sections 1.1-1.3 (p. 13-33) OpenStax |
| Week Two | The Vehicle for Psychological Discovery: Is Psychology common sense, steps in conducting research, commonly used scientific methods | Ch. 1 (p.10-22) Stangor |
| Week Three | Neurological and Genetic Bases of Behavior: The neuron, neural and hormonal systems, the brain, genetic influences on behavior | Ch. 3 (p. 81-118) OpenStax |
| Week Four | Human Development: Physical and prenatal development, social development, cognitive development, moral development, adolescence, adulthood | Ch. 9 (p. 311-330) OpenStax |
| Week Five | Sensation and Perception: Basic principles of sensation, vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, proprioceptive senses, perception | Ch. 5 (p. 156-191) OpenStax |
| Week Six | Learning: Classical Conditioning, Operant conditioning, Observational Learning | Ch. 6 (p. 193-225) OpenStax |
| Week Seven | Consciousness: Nature of consciousness, sleep, altered states of consciousness | Ch. 4 (p. 119-156) OpenStax |
| Week Eight | Memory: nature of memory, sensory, short-term, long-term memory, organization of memory, memory retrieval, forgetting, biological basis for memory | Ch. 8 (p. 265-287) OpenStax |
| Week Nine | Intelligence: Measuring intelligence, one thing or memory, dynamics of intelligence, heredity and environmental influences on intelligence | Ch. 7 (p. 227-263) OpenStax |
| Week Ten | Motivation and Emotion: Motivation, hunger and eating, sexual motivation, achievement motivation, emotion |
[lacking achievement motivation] |
| Week Eleven | Personality: Nature of personality, psychoanalytic perspective, humanistic perspective, trait perspective, social-cognitive perspective, measuring personality, biological basis for personality | Ch. 11 (p. 377-417) OpenStax |
| Week Twelve | Psychological Disorders: How do we define and explain disorders, classification, major classes of disorders | Ch. 15 (p. 555-616) OpenStax |
| Week Thirteen | Therapy: Who offers therapies, psychodynamic therapies, behavior therapies, cognitive therapies, humanistic therapies, other forms of psychotherapy, biomedical therapies, economic and social trends in mental health treatment | Ch. 16 (p. 617-652) OpenStax |
| Week Fourteen | Stress, Health and Coping: Causes of stress, what moderates stress, behaviors that help or hurt our health | Ch. 14 (p. 503-554) OpenStax |
| Week Fifteen | Social Behavior: Social Perception, attitudes, social influence, hurting or helping others, interpersonal attraction and love | Ch. 12 (p. 419-465) OpenStax Ch. 14 (p. 817-860) Stangor |
Relevant supplements:
Supplementary learning materials for the Stangor text from Houston Community College
