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    Read more about Together: The Science of Social Psychology

    Together: The Science of Social Psychology

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    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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    Read more about Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition

    Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition

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    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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    Read more about Research Methods in Psychology - 2nd Canadian Edition

    Research Methods in Psychology - 2nd Canadian Edition

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    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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    Read more about Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Fourth Edition

    Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Fourth Edition

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    Contributors: Lally and Valentine-French

    Publisher: Martha Lally, Suzanne Valentine-French

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    Developmental Psychology, also known as Human Development or Lifespan Development, is the scientific study of ways in which people change, as well as stay the same, from conception to death. You will no doubt discover in the course of studying that the field examines change across a broad range of topics. These include physical and other psychophysiological processes, cognition, language, and psychosocial development, including the impact of family and peers.

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    Read more about Personality Theory in a Cultural Context

    Personality Theory in a Cultural Context

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    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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    Read more about Learning Statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners

    Learning Statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners

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    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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    Read more about General Psychology: An Introduction

    General Psychology: An Introduction

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    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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    Read more about Research Methods in Psychology - New Zealand Edition

    Research Methods in Psychology - New Zealand Edition

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    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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    Read more about Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences

    Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences

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    Contributors: Cote, Gordon, Randell, Schmitt, and Guerra

    Publisher: University of Missouri - St. Louis

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing as need for psychology students. The textbook introduces the fundamentals of statistics, an introduction to hypothesis testing, and t Tests. Related samples, independent samples, analysis of variance, correlations, linear regressions and chi-squares are all covered along with expanded appendices with z, t, F correlation, and a Chi-Square table. The text includes key terms and exercises with answers to odd-numbered exercises.

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    Read more about Introduction to Community Psychology

    Introduction to Community Psychology

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    Contributors: Jason, Glantsman, and O'Brien

    Publisher: Rebus Community

    License: CC BY

    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.

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