Psychology Textbooks
Research Methods in Psychology - New Zealand Edition
Copyright Year: 2018
Contributors: Price and Jhangiani
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook is an adaptation of the Research Methods in Psychology that is available on this site in US and Canadian editions. This New Zealand edition is an adaptation to the New Zealand context. The main changes are in Chapters 1 and 3 and the spelling, grammar, and terminology are changed throughout. This textbook is adopted at the University of Waikato in our 200-level research methods in psychology class.
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General Psychology: An Introduction
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Kearns and Lee
Publisher: University System of Georgia
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
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Learning Statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners
Copyright Year: 2018
Contributor: Navarro
Publisher: Danielle Navarro
License: CC BY-SA
Learning Statistics with R 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.
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Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributor: Kelland
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
When you first think of personality, what comes to mind? When we refer to certain people as being “personalities,” we usually mean they are famous, people like movie stars or your favorite band. When we describe a person as having “lots of personality,” we usually mean they are outgoing and fun-loving, the kind of person we like to spend time with. But does this tell us anything about personality itself? Although we may think we have an understanding of what personality is, professional psychologists always seek to move beyond what people think they know in order to determine what is actually real or at least as close to real as we can come. In the pursuit of truly understanding personality, however, many personality theorists seem to have been focused on a particularly Western cultural approach that owes much of its history to the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud.
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Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Second Edition
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Lally and Valentine-French
Publisher: Martha Lally, Suzanne Valentine-French
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.
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Research Methods in Psychology - 2nd Canadian Edition
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Jhangiani and Chiang
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY-NC-SA
The present adaptation constitutes the second Canadian edition and was co-authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Revisions include the following:
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Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition
Copyright Year: 2010
Contributor: Walinga
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.
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Together: The Science of Social Psychology
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Biswas-Diener and Diener
Publisher: Noba
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Each module in this book is accompanied by instructor's manual, PowerPoint presentation, test items, adaptive student quiz, and reading anticipation guide.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.
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Psychology as a Biological Science
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributors: Biswas-Diener and Diener
Publisher: Noba
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
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Introduction to Psychology: The Full Noba Collection
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Biswas-Diener and Diener
Publisher: Noba
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook represents the entire catalog of Noba topics. It contains 90 learning modules covering every area of psychology commonly taught in introductory courses. This book can be modified: feel free to rearrange or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.
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