Psychology
How minds work, how we know, and which famous findings held up.
For: anyone starting the degree, anyone who has wondered why they remember, feel or decide as they do, anyone reading pop psychology who wants to tell the solid from the shaky.
Shaped by the APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major (version 3.0, 2023), the British Psychological Society's accreditation core (biological, cognitive, developmental, social, individual differences, research methods) and experimental psychology at Oxford and Stanford.
Year 1 · Brain and method
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01ReadInteractiveQuiz12 min
Biological Psychology: The Wet Machine Behind the Mind
Neurons, the brain and the body that thinks.
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02ReadInteractiveQuiz12 min
Learning & Behavior: Surprise Is the Teacher
Conditioning, reward and how behaviour is learned.
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03ReadInteractiveQuiz12 min
Probability & Statistics: Reasoning with Uncertainty
Statistics: the language of every psychology paper.
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04ReadInteractiveQuiz11 min
Research Methods in Psychology: How to Not Fool Yourself
Experiments, measurement, and the replication crisis.
Year 2 · The mind's machinery
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05ReadInteractiveQuiz11 min
Sensation & Perception: The Brain's Best Guess
How the brain builds a world from senses.
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06ReadInteractiveQuiz14 min
Cognitive Psychology: A Narrow Beam and a Rebuilding Crew
Memory, attention and thinking.
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07ReadInteractiveQuiz14 min
Developmental Psychology: How Minds Are Built, and What Later Research Revised
How minds grow from infancy to old age.
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08Deep diveInteractiveQuiz15 min
Social Psychology: How Other People Change What We Do
How other people change what we do.
Year 3 · People and their differences
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09ReadInteractiveQuiz14 min
Personality & Individual Differences: What Varies Between People
Personality, intelligence and how much is inherited.
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10ReadInteractiveQuiz14 min
Clinical Psychology: Where Normal Ends and Care Begins
Mental disorders and the therapies that work.
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11ReadInteractiveQuiz12 min
Behavioral Economics: How People Actually Choose
Biases and decisions, in money.
Year 4 · Where it leads
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12ReadInteractiveQuiz13 min
Organizational Behavior & Leadership: People Are the System
Psychology at work.
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13ReadInteractiveQuiz10 min
Consumer Behavior: How People Notice, Want, Choose and Regret
Psychology in the market.
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14ReadInteractiveQuiz11 min
Machine Learning: Programs That Write Their Own Rules
Machines that learn, and what they say about minds.
the free Noba psychology textbooks; the textbooks named at the end of each subject. See also the library's 01 Nervous System & Body, 02 Developmental Psychology and 17 Thinking & Learning for gentler first reads.
Literature
How words make worlds: reading closely, the forms stories and poems take, and the literatures of every continent.