Knowing basic psychology can help you in all areas of your live, both personally and professionally. The ability to understand how and why others think, behave, and even feel is clearly useful, but the the ability to understand ourselves is even more useful. Although the human mind does not come with a manual, this course may be the next best thing!

Take a Major Step In Understanding Human Behavior By Taking This Course

• Learn about the field of neuroscience and what it can tell us about ourselves
• Learn about perception and how the world is very different from what we think it is
• Learn how to learn
• Learn about thinking and understand intelligence
• Understand how humans develop in all stages of life
• Understand personality
• Learn what is abnormal when it comes to psychology
• Learn the basics of social psychology
• Get a crash course on cognitive biases
• Understand stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
• Debunk 50 psychology myths

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Psychology!

This course comprises the topics found to be most important based on a survey of 761 introductory psychology teachers at 490 schools (Miller & Gentile, 1998). These topics include introduction/methods, neuroscience, sensation/perception, learning, memory, thinking/intelligence, developmental psychology, personality, social psychology, and abnormal psychology. In addition, I have worked in sections on cognitive biases, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, along with the debunking of popular psychology myths that just don't seem to die.

By the end of this course, you should have a strong understanding of psychology and be able to put this knowledge to work in your life.