Intro to Psychology

Understand psychology's historical roots and its modern scientific approach to studying the mind and behavior.

Learn how psychologists use the scientific method to conduct research and draw valid conclusions about human behavior.

Explore the biological foundations of behavior, focusing on the brain, neurons, and the nervous system.

Discover how our sensory organs receive information from the environment and how our brain organizes it into meaningful perceptions.

Examine the core principles of learning, including how we form associations and learn from consequences and observation.

Understand the processes of encoding, storing, and retrieving memories, and why we sometimes forget.

Explore higher-level mental processes like thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, as well as the concept of intelligence.

Trace human development from infancy to old age, focusing on key physical, cognitive, and social changes.

Investigate the forces that drive our behavior and the complex interplay between physiological arousal, expression, and subjective experience.

Analyze how the presence and actions of other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Survey the major theories that attempt to explain the unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that make up personality.

Define psychological disorders and learn how they are diagnosed, categorized, and understood within the field of psychology.