Psychology

Introduction to Psychology

• Discover Psychology 2.0 - A Brief Introductory Text from NOBA
  This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory courses. The 15 units cover the traditional areas of intro-to-psychology; ranging from biological aspects of psychology to psychological disorders to social psychology. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Please note that the publisher requires you to register and login to access and download the PDF.
• General Psychology from Florida State College at JacksonvilleThe full course content for a course on General Psychology. It contains eight modules: Foundations of Psychology; Biopsychology; Consciousness and Sleep; Sensation and Perception; Learning, Memory, and Intelligence; Motivation and Emotion; Personality, Developmental Psychology, and Social Psychology; Psychological Disorder and Treatment, Abnormal Behavior and Health Psychology.
• General Psychology University System of Georgia The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
• Introduction to Psychology from University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
  Solidly reviewed and comprehensive overview of Psychology. Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to intro students. The author wrote this book to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.
• Psychology 2e from OpenStax
  Psychology 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

Research Methods and Statistics

• An Introduction to Psychological Statistics from University of Missouri - St. Louis
  From publisher's site: "We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted."
• Learning Statistics with R
  Text covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.
• Research Methods in Psychology - 4th American Edition from Kwantlen Polytechnic University
  Thorough and comprehensive text for undergraduate psychology students as they approach research in the field of psychology. Covers research ethics, psychological measurements, experimental and non-experimental research, surveys, factorial designs, single-subject research, presenting research, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics.

Abnormal Psychology

• Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders - 3e from Washington State University
  Text tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 15 modules and is updated through the DSM-5-TR. After the first three foundational modules, a discussion of mental disorders ensues to include depressive, anxiety, personality, schizophrenic, eating, and obsessive-compulsive to name a few. Please note, this text needs to be read online and cannot be downloaded.
• Introduction to Abnormal Psychology from NOBA
  Text covers the history of mental illness, psychopathy, therapeutic orientations, psychopharmacology, mood disorders, anxiety and related disorders, Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, personality disorders, Autism, and ADHD and Behavior disorders in children. Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the PDF.

Biological Behavioral Basis

• Psychology as a Biological Science from NOBA
  This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on biological aspects of psychology. This includes more content related to neuroscience methods, the brain and the nervous system. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the PDF.