Course: Foundations of Psychological Science

Now free on Udemy

Hi Lab,

During the pandemic, we all moved our lectures online. I teach introductory psychology - Foundations of Psychological Science - which covers all the typical material you’d get in PSYCH101, but rather than teach disconnected ideas, the course places psychology within a theoretical framework showing all the connections. The program is now the #1 in the country and since we’re back in person, I’ve thought I’d make the course available on Udemy.

If anyone is interested (or knows someone who is), it’s free with one of these links (they expire, but I can make more):

https://www.udemy.com/course/foundations-of-psychological-science/?couponCode=C7DB9213E52490FC2BFF

Another link if the one above doesn’t work: https://www.udemy.com/course/foundations-of-psychological-science/?couponCode=834F8ACF8E6A929ACB71

Course content

This course provides an introduction to human cognition and behaviour, addressing foundational topics in psychological science. These foundational topics include key concepts such as evolution, genetics, neuroscience, human evolutionary biology and anthropology, and specific topics, such as perception, memory, heuristics and biases, decision-making, child development, psychopathology, personality and individual differences, emotion, attraction and sexuality, cross-cultural differences, social relations, stereotypes and prejudice, norms and attitudes, social learning, social influence and persuasion, and group processes.

The course will offer an integrated perspective on these topics, investigating the evolution and variation in human psychology over time, across cultures, and over the lifespan. The course will introduce the history of the study of humans and human psychology, offering students the historical context to trends in research. By the end of the course, students will have a broad knowledge of key topics in psychology and related disciplines. Students will be prepared for more in-depth investigations of more advanced topics in later courses.

Students will also understand how psychology relates to and informs other disciplines concerned with humans and human behaviour. The course is therefore suitable to students enrolled in other programmes who wish to enrich their understanding by drawing on the psychological sciences.

Best wishes,

Michael