The Basics of Psychology

An Online Primer

(This legacy resource was created by C. George Boeree, a retired professor in the Psychology Department of Shippensburg University.)

Starting on this page, you can find essays, articles, chapters, and entire e-texts of information concerning the many areas within the field of psychology, all written by the psychology professors at Shippensburg University.

Browse through the directory below, which is arranged by topics following how these topics might be arranged in a comprehensive general psychology book. Links in bold are to e-texts with multiple chapters; links in plain text are to individual articles.

Methods
Physiological Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience)
Sensation and Perception
Consciousness
Motivation and Emotion
Learning and Cognition
Genetics and Evolution
Developmental Psychology
Linguistics
Personality
Psychological Disorders (Abnormal Psychology)
Therapy
Social Psychology
History of Psychology

Methods
	Introduction to Research in Psychology
Qualitative Methods	Qualitative Methods Workbook
Descriptive Statistics	Descriptive Statistics
Correlation	Correlation
Experiments	Experiments
Physiological Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience)
The Neuron	The Neuron The Action Potential
Neurotransmitters	Neurotransmitters
The Nervous System	The Central Nervous System
The Brain	Images of the Brain The Emotional Nervous System The Basal Ganglia The Cerebrum The Lobes
Sensation and Perception
The Senses	The Senses
Perception	Perception Pandemonium Insight
Pain	Pain
Consciousness
Consciousness	Quality Realism What is Consciousness? Free Will
Sleep	Sleep
Hypnosis
Drugs	Alcohol and Other Drugs
Meditation	The Basics of Buddhist Meditation
Motivation and Emotion
Emotions	Emotion Anger Humor
Motivation	Motivation
Hunger	Hunger and Eating Disorders
Sexuality	Sexuality
Sexual Orientation	Sexual Orientation
Love	Love
Learning and Cognition
Learning	Learning
Cognition	The Three Levels of Mind On Thinking Mr. T's Counterfactual Thinking Tutorial Logical Fallacies
Memory	Memory
Intelligence	Intelligence Selected Portions of the APA's Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns
Genetics and Evolution
Genetics	Genetics Race
Human Evolution	Human Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology	Sociobiology
Developmental Psychology
Fetal Development	Fetal Development
Infancy	Infancy
Childhood	Childhood
Adolescence	Adolescence
Childhood Disorders	Psychological Problems of Childhood
Cognitive Development	Jean Piaget (brief) Jean Piaget
Educational Psychology	Teaching, Learning, and the Phenomenology of Meaning
Moral Development	Moral Development
Psychosocial Development	Erikson: Psychosocial Development
Aging	Aging The Social Psychology of Aging
Linguistics
	Introduction to Languages Basic Language Structures Phonetics Morphology Componential Analysis Semantics
Language Development	Language Development in Children
Language Families	Language Families of the World The Indo-European Family The Dialects of English
Language Origins and Change	The Origins of Language The Evolution of Language The Evolution of Indo-European The Evolution of English
Written Language	The Origin of the Alphabet The Evolution of Alphabets
Personality
	Introduction to Personality The Ultimate Theory of Personality Individual, Existential, and Humanistic Psychology Buddhist Psychology
Sigmund Freud	Sigmund Freud (brief) Sigmund Freud
Trait Theories of Personality	Trait Theories of Personality Hans Eysenck and Other Temperament Theorists Factor Analysis
Neo-Freudian Theories	Anna Freud Erik Erikson Carl Jung Otto Rank Alfred Adler Karen Horney
Behavioristic Theories	B. F. Skinner Albert Bandura
Humanistic Theories	Gordon Allport George Kelly Snygg and Combs Abraham Maslow Carl Rogers Albert Ellis
Existential Theories	Ludwig Binswanger Medard Boss Erich Fromm Viktor Frankl Rollo May
Personality Tests	Fromm's Orientations Test Big Five Mini-Test Allport's Values Test Sheldon Test Jungian Types Test
Psychological Disorders (Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology)
	The Bio-Social Theory of Neurosis
Anxiety Disorders	Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders	Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia	Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders	Personality Disorders
Other Disorders	Dissociative Disorders Somatoform Disorders Alienation Alienation Test
Therapy
Psychotherapy	Psychotherapy Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy
Drugs and Psychosurgery	Drug and Other Medical Therapies
Health Psychology
Social Psychology
	Introduction to Social Psychology
Person Perception	Person Perception
Balance and Dissonance Theory	Self Defense
Prejudice	Prejudice
Norms, Roles, and Status	Social Expectation
Social Learning Theory	Social Learning
Exchange Theories	Social Economics
Persuasion	Persuasion
Multicultural Psychology	Culture A Psychosocial History of the Human Species Getting a Picture of a Society Culture "Personalities"
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Legal Psychology
The History of Psychology
	Psychology Today and Tomorrow
The Ancients	Psyche and Eros The Presocratics Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle Epicureans and Stoics The Roman Empire
The Rebirth	The Middle Ages The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy Epistemology The Enlightenment Metaphysics David Hume and Immanuel Kant Ethics
The 1800s	Early Medicine and Physiology A Brief History of Psychopharmacology Charles Darwin and Evolution The Romantic Philosophers The Beginnings of Psychology The History of Statistics Wilhelm Wundt and William James
The 1900s	Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis Behaviorism Gestalt Psychology Phenomenological Existentialism Modern Medicine and Physiology A Brief History of the Lobotomy The Cognitive Movement

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