Work with the main kinds of psychological evidence: observation, interviews, surveys, tests, experiments, and case records. You will practice spotting variables, claims, bias, and limits in simple studies.

Use correlation, experiments, sampling, reliability, validity, effect size, and uncertainty without getting buried in math. This chapter gives you the statistical judgment needed to read research and avoid common traps.

See how informed consent, privacy, deception, risk, duty of care, and vulnerable populations shape psychological work. You will read research and practice examples the way an ethics board or supervisor would.

Connect neurons, hormones, genes, and brain networks to behavior without reducing people to biology alone. You will build the vocabulary needed for neuroscience, medication, stress, development, and mental health chapters.

Follow how eyes, ears, skin, nose, tongue, and balance systems turn physical energy into experience. This chapter shows why perception is active, selective, and sometimes wrong in predictable ways.

Study attention, awareness, sleep, dreams, hypnosis, meditation, and psychoactive substances as changing states of mind. You will connect daily habits and biological rhythms to performance, mood, and safety.

Learn how experience changes behavior through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, reinforcement, punishment, extinction, and observational learning. You will design small behavior-change plans and judge why some fail.

See how memory is encoded, stored, changed, forgotten, and sometimes confidently distorted. You will practice using memory research to improve studying, interviewing, eyewitness judgment, and habit formation.

Work with problem solving, reasoning, decision making, language, mental shortcuts, and common biases. You will analyze real choices where people mix logic, emotion, habit, and social pressure.

Compare psychometric views of intelligence with newer work on expertise, creativity, achievement, and context. This chapter also covers test fairness, stereotype threat, and responsible use of scores.

Study hunger, sex, achievement, curiosity, goals, reward, fear, anger, joy, and sadness as systems that guide action. You will connect motivation and emotion to learning, relationships, work, and health.

Follow human development from prenatal life through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging. This chapter connects brain growth, attachment, language, identity, moral reasoning, and life transitions.

See how families, peers, neighborhoods, schools, poverty, discrimination, and culture shape development. You will practice separating individual traits from the environments that support or limit them.

Study how people explain others, conform, obey, persuade, cooperate, compete, stereotype, and form groups. You will use social psychology to read real situations like classrooms, workplaces, crowds, and online communities.

Work with major personality theories, trait models, identity, temperament, and self-concept. You will practice reading personality claims carefully and separating stable patterns from temporary states.

See how culture shapes emotion, identity, morality, family roles, communication, diagnosis, and research results. This chapter builds culturally careful judgment instead of treating one group’s experience as the default.

Connect stress, coping, trauma, resilience, social support, behavior change, and chronic illness. You will practice applying psychology to sleep, pain, adherence, burnout, and prevention.

Study the main ways psychologists define distress, impairment, diagnosis, and disorder. This chapter covers categorical and dimensional thinking, stigma, comorbidity, and why diagnosis is useful but imperfect.

Cover anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive problems, trauma-related conditions, and dissociation. You will connect symptoms to learning, threat systems, memory, avoidance, and treatment planning.

Study major depression, bipolar disorders, suicide risk, grief, and mood regulation. This chapter links mood problems to biology, cognition, relationships, culture, assessment, and safety planning.

Cover psychosis, schizophrenia spectrum conditions, delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and recovery. You will learn how clinicians balance diagnosis, medication, family support, stigma reduction, and risk.

Study substance use, behavioral addictions, withdrawal, relapse, harm reduction, and recovery supports. This chapter connects reward learning, environment, trauma, policy, and treatment choices.

Cover personality disorders, impulse control problems, eating disorders, somatic symptom concerns, and neurodevelopmental conditions. You will practice thinking in patterns, development, function, and safety rather than labels alone.

Use interviews, observation, rating scales, cognitive tests, personality measures, and risk tools responsibly. This chapter covers reliability, validity, norms, feedback, malingering, and the limits of testing.

Turn client history, symptoms, strengths, culture, risks, and goals into a clear case formulation. You will practice moving from scattered information to a practical plan for support or treatment.

Study the shared ingredients of effective therapy: alliance, goals, feedback, boundaries, skills practice, and change tracking. This chapter shows what makes helping conversations different from ordinary advice.

Work with cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure, behavioral activation, skills training, and relapse prevention. You will see how structured treatments turn theory into sessions, homework, and measurable change.

Cover psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, family systems, and group approaches. This chapter shows how different therapies use relationships, meaning, patterns, and systems to support change.

Study psychiatric medication from a psychology perspective: what common drug classes target, what clients report, and how care teams coordinate. You will learn the boundaries between psychological practice and prescribing roles.

Follow a realistic mental health care path from referral and consent through assessment, formulation, treatment, crisis planning, documentation, outcome review, and discharge. This chapter ties together clinical judgment, ethics, evidence, and communication.

See how psychologists support learning, motivation, classroom behavior, special education decisions, and school mental health. You will connect assessment and intervention to teachers, families, and school systems.

Apply psychology to hiring, teams, leadership, motivation, job design, performance, safety, and workplace well-being. This chapter covers practical decisions and the ethics of testing and people analytics at work.

Study psychological work in courts, corrections, custody disputes, competency, risk assessment, and eyewitness evidence. You will learn where clinical judgment, legal standards, and public safety meet.

Use psychology to design clearer messages, safer systems, better products, and healthier behavior-change programs. This chapter connects attention, motivation, habit, usability, persuasion, and ethics.

Read the replication crisis as a turning point in how psychologists do science. This chapter covers preregistration, registered reports, open data, transparent statistics, meta-analysis, and better research habits.

Work with large datasets, digital traces, intensive daily surveys, network models, and computational simulations. You will see how modern psychologists study behavior across time while protecting privacy and avoiding overclaiming.

Study online therapy, mental health apps, text-based support, digital assessments, remote measurement, and stepped care. This chapter covers access, evidence, privacy, crisis response, and when digital care is not enough.

Examine how machine learning, chatbots, automated scoring, and AI-assisted documentation are entering psychological research and services. You will focus on bias, transparency, safety, consent, and keeping human responsibility clear.

Study trauma-informed care, community psychology, prevention, peer support, and public mental health models. This chapter shows how psychologists work beyond one-on-one services to reduce harm and strengthen communities.

Practice reading articles, checking methods, judging claims, and turning evidence into cautious recommendations. You will build the habits needed to keep learning without being fooled by hype or weak evidence.

Map the major paths in psychology: research, clinical practice, counseling, school psychology, industrial-organizational work, forensic work, health psychology, user research, and community roles. This chapter covers degrees, supervised hours, licensing, certifications, portfolios, research experience, and ways to stay current.