Welcome to psychology class. The following materials are offered as open source resources for undergraduate and graduate psychology students and anyone interested in learning about psychology.
Personality Theory
Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Theory & Development
What is Personality Everybody's heard the term personality, and most of us can describe our own or our friend's personality. ...
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Chapter 10: Humanistic Theory
Section 1: Introduction to Humanistic Theory People are Basically Good Humanistic Psychology gets its name from its belief in the ...
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Chapter 11: Cognitive Theory
Section 1: Introduction to Cognitive Theory I Think therefore I have a Personality If you believe the saying 'Perception is ...
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Chapter 12: Disorders, Applications & Trends
Section 1: Changing Personality Assessing the Power of Change While all of the personality theories discussed in this text have ...
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Chapter 2: Personality Research & Assessment
Section 1: Gaining Knowledge through Research Influence of Research on Psychology Psychology is not an absolute science and is often ...
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Chapter 3: Biological Components of Personality
Section 1: Introduction to Biological Theory Biological Theory: An Introduction We start with biological theory for two reasons. First, the ...
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Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Theory
Section 1: Sigmund Freud's View of Personality Sigmund Freud's View of Personality Sigmund Freud's life may be a classic example ...
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Chapter 5: Psychodynamic & Neo-Freudian Theories
Section 1: Introduction to Neo-Freudian Theory Dissention in the Ranks While Sigmund Freud is considered the father of psychoanalysis, and ...
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Chapter 6: Psychodynamic Assessment
Introduction to Psychodynamic Assessment Psychodynamic Assessment Assessing the specific aspects of personality can be as controversial and complex as the ...
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Chapter 7: Trait Theory
Introduction to Trait Theory Practically all personality theorists are concerned with traits. After all, traits are what make us who ...
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Articles about Personality Development and Disorders
Narcissism gets its name from Greek Mythology and the story of Narcissus. According to the myth, Narcissus was a handsome ...
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"You have your mother’s nose, and your father’s narcissism!" For better or worse, through genes or through environment, parents pass ...
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Say what you will about narcissists, but at least they turn out to do their civic duty. That’s according to ...
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With a constant stream of news about coronavirus, it’s easy to overlook the disconcerting news that continues to come out ...
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We tend to talk about "risk taking" in two contradictory ways. On one hand, being able to take risks is ...
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Psychopathology (Abnormal Psychology)
DSM-5-TR Mental Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, involves excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities that is out of proportion to the situation. The worry and worrisome thoughts are difficult ...
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The diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has changed over the years as we learn more about how individuals respond to traumatic events. Prior to our current diagnostic system, the disorder ...
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Narcissism gets its name from Greek Mythology and the story of Narcissus. According to the myth, Narcissus was a handsome and prideful young man. One day as he lay next to a ...
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Articles Focused on Psychopathology
Mental health care is undergoing a transformation, with telehealth becoming an essential part of the therapeutic toolkit. The Monitor on ...
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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) is one of the founders of Humanistic Psychology. Along with Carl Rogers (1902-1987), Maslow stressed the importance ...
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Sigmund Freud continues to be an influential figure in the field of psychology for his development of psychoanalysis, a theory ...
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We are more connected and more lonely than ever. And this seems to be true across sex, age, race, and ...
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Media Psychology Technology, including social and other forms of media, is often considered neutral - its value is determined by ...
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First, A Little Psychology I've written before about social media use and how it can be both helpful and harmful ...
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Stress Is Good Stress can be bad but it can also be good. And even when it is bad, it ...
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Social Media and Mental Health Social media has become an open forum for discussing and sharing stories about mental health ...
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Social media use and mental health seems to have a love/hate relationship. Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) conducted a large study ...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, involves excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities that is out ...
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