By the end of this section, you will be able to:Understand the etymology of the word “psychology”Define psychologyUnderstand the merits of an education in psychology
Material Type: Module
The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Life is social whenever we interact with others. Over time, patterns of interaction become embedded in the structure of society. Sociologists investigate and seek to understand the structure of groups, organizations, and societies and how people interact within these contexts.
Material Type: Full Course
Word Count: 199621 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
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Psychological Adjustment Textbook PSY 101 Psychology of Human Relations Psychology of Human Relations is the study of psychology from a living or personal point of view with emphasis on practical application. Attention is given to individual and group dynamics with focus on feelings and attitudes in relation to family, work and day-to-day experiences. The course includes an overview of topics including self-concept, perception, self-awareness, personality, values and communications in resolving interpersonal conflicts. The following text was created as part of an Open Oregon grant to promote the creation and use of Open Educational Resources for college students. The Mt Hood Community College version of “Psychological Adjustment” differs from the original text created by Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee at East Georgia State College in the following ways. First, content revisions were made in existing learning modules to better suit the needs of our department. Specifically, we removed the modules X. Understanding Gender, and XII. Loneliness and Solitude. Significant revisions were made to the modules on Stress, Communication, and Work/Choosing a Career with updated graphics and reading materials. Second, the authors created learning objectives and keyword lists that coordinated with the newly added materials. Finally, the authors made significant changes to how the materials were presented in the text to increase student accessibility. In the original Kearns & Lee text, the learning modules were populated with external links, some of which were broken or not available. Where appropriate, the authors translated materials from external sources into a PDF version of the current textbook, so that external links were no longer necessary to access the reading materials. Editable doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kd82c8j_V2kZ-hNCvTMbdIM7Oa7SsFNY/edit?
Material Type: Textbook
These lecture slides were developed by Patricia Adams of Pitt Community College. They include lecture outlines, graphics, tables, and summaries of the course concepts. The slides are generally aligned to OpenStax Psychology, but the materials is specific to Professor Adams's course.
Material Type: Lecture Notes
This textbook is an introduction to the psychology of education.
Material Type: Textbook
A set of three short writing assignments were designed to encourage students to think critically about the way that scientific research is reported by the popular media and the reasons that research may or may not be reported in a way that could be construed as misleading.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Written by Lansing Community College Psychology professor Dr. Mark Kelland, this book covers general personality theory, with an emphasis on cultural aspects affecting personality development. There is also a section focusing on making positive choices in the development of one's personality from a number of different cultural/philosophical perspectives.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading, Textbook
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Understand basic biological mechanisms regulating sexual behavior and motivationAppreciate the importance of Alfred Kinsey’s research on human sexualityRecognize the contributions that William Masters and Virginia Johnson’s research made to our understanding of the sexual response cycleDefine sexual orientation and gender identity
Material Type: Module
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Define intrinsic and extrinsic motivationUnderstand that instincts, drive reduction, self-efficacy, and social motives have all been proposed as theories of motivationExplain the basic concepts associated with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Material Type: Module
This activity is designed to help students understand the representation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in everyday communications. Students will first read about the concept, then explore a familiar environment -- Twitter -- for expressions of it. (The activity can be adapted quickly for use with other social media applications and communication sites.) This activity was created by Dr. Sally B. Seraphin, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This collection an be used as group or individual activities in psychology, sociology, communications, or related courses. The WWHoA model aims to first engage students in the "Why" of the concept or lesson, then moves them into the "what" and "how," before concluding with "assessments." The materials cover four lessons, and are intended to be used as is and also expanded upon for other concepts. These activities were created by Maria Gross, Psychology, Mid Michigan Community College; Kelley Eltzroth, Psychology, Mid Michigan Community College; Nicole Korzetz, Psychology, Lee College; Philip B. Terry-Smith,Ph.D, Sociology, Anne Arundel Community College; and Diane Miller, Communication, Mid Michigan Community College.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Noba is a high-quality, flexibly structured digital introduction to psychology resource for higher-ed classrooms and virtual classrooms. Noba consists of nearly 90 short (2500-4000 word) chapters authored by leading instructors and researchers including 7 winners of the William James Award. Chapters are organized in familiar categories (Development, Learning & Memory, Personality, etc.) for easy reference. All Noba materials are licensed through Creative Commons under the CC BY-NA-SA license terms. The Noba website allows anyone to combine chapters in any order to create unique psychology textbooks to suit virtually any curriculum. In addition to allowing users to build their own customized collections, Noba provides a series of "Ready-Made" digital textbooks curated from the Noba chapters to conform to the scope and sequence of some of the most commonly taught 100/200-level psych courses (Intro-to-Psych, Psych as a Biological Science, Psych as a Social Science, etc.). The Ready-made books can also be edited to add or remove chapters, or sections so that they better conform to the specific course an instructor will teach. Custom-made books, Ready-made books, or even individual chapters can be used online, downloaded as PDFs or shared withe learners via email and social media using easy-share tools built in to the website.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
Openstax Psychology for General Psychology classes. Presented by Dr. Mark Hatala, Professor of Psychology at Truman State University, these videos cover topics from the Openstax textbook for Psychology chapter by chapter.
Material Type: Full Course, Lecture
Intern Prescot Nelson at Succinct Psychology (Psychcinct), under the guidance of professor Daniel Reynolds, created the entire course series for the Psych2e Openstax textbook. We are allowing everyone to share and embed this resource.
Material Type: Full Course, Lecture, Lesson, Module, Unit of Study
This is a link to a folder that contains summaries for each of the chapters plus modified/updated powerpoints based on the provided powerpoints from OpenStax. Link: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AnkKqP3iLfYOnp1J9sLv-VegrH1TDA
Material Type: Lecture Notes
The ELM Learning Center is a collection of instructional materials on the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) databases organized into courses. These materials are created by librarians in the Reference Outreach and Instruction unit of Minitex. The ELM Learning Center can help you get to know ELM and provides as much information as you'd like on using ELM more effectively.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Teaching/Learning Strategy
A colourful and fun superhero-themed slideshow presentation designed to teach students how to create effective slideshow presentations. A Google slides presentation that you can adopt / adapt for your classroom. Best suited for grades 5-8 but may work in higher grades too. Outlines 7 tips for effective slideshow presentations: 1. Fantastic Fonts 2. Stupendous Size 3. Terrific Text 4. Cool Colours 5. Glorious Graphics & Videos 6. Sensational Slides 7. *BONUS* Incredible Interactions
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
