Library Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Psychology

Psychology

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Noba Project
The Noba catalog covers the traditional scope of introductory psychology and then some. With 104 modules (and counting) we're confident you'll find what you're looking for, for free.

Introductory Psychology Textbooks

Discover Psychology 2.0
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, and comes with an accompanying instructor manual, PowerPoint slides, and test bank.
OpenStax Psychology 2nd Edition
Psychology 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: The Science of Human Potential
Psychology: The Science of Human Potential is designed to be a concise, cohesive introduction to psychology textbook. The first chapter provides an overview of the textbook and reviews the history of psychology and its methodology.
Introduction to Psychology (2019)
Introduction to Psychology, by Cummings and Sanders (Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan), has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from several open educational resources. It is intended for a first-year, introduction to Psychology course.
Introduction to Biological Psychology
This open access textbook was designed primarily for use by first and second year undergraduate students of British Psychological Society accredited Psychology degree courses in the UK.

Social Psychology

Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International H5P Edition (2021)
Principles of Social Psychology-1st International Edition was adapted by Rajiv Jhangiani and Hammond Tarry from Charles Stagnor’s textbook Principles of Social Psychology. We hope that our work enables more instructors to adopt this open textbook for their Social Psychology or related courses and we further invite you to build upon our work by modifying this textbook to suit your course and pedagogical goals.
Together: The Science of Social Psychology (Noba Project)
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.
Case Studies in Community Psychology Practice: A Global Lens
There is no better way to demonstrate the work and impact of community psychologists and allies than by showcasing actual projects conducted in partnership with communities. This textbook displays this work in a dynamic case study format that will ignite students' desire and passion to study and become future community psychologists.
Introduction to Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change
This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities.

Abnormal Psychology

Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders, 3rd Edition
Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders (formerly Abnormal Psychology) is an Open Education Resource written by Alexis Bridley, Ph.D. and Lee W. Daffin Jr., Ph.D. through Washington State University which tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 16 modules and is updated through the DSM-5-TR.
Abnormal Psychology (Noba Project)
A selection of short articles curated by the Noba community on subjects relevant to abnormal psychology courses.
Abnormal Psychology (2020)
This text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from existing open educational resources.

Research Methods and Statistics for Psychology

Research Methods in Psychology, 4th Edition (2019)
This textbook introduces students to the fundamental principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher in the contemporary world of psychology research. Lecture slides are also available.
Recentering Psych Statistics
Covering basic statistics to ANCOVA with a chapter on R applications. Each chapter has research vignettes to make the material more accessible. Note: One chapter with extensive information about using R.
Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners
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.
Answering Questions with Data
This is a free textbook teaching introductory statistics for undergraduates in Psychology. This textbook is part of a larger OER course package for teaching undergraduate statistics in Psychology, including this textbook, a lab manual, and a course website. All of the materials are free and copiable, with source code maintained in Github.

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