Introduction to Psychology
Course Content from McGraw-Hill
Course Number: PSY101
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This course provides a general survey of psychology including the relationship between biology and behavior, such as how stress impacts personal health. Other topics introduced in the course include intelligence and reasoning, personality, gender and sex, memory, ethics, and research methods.
This Course Includes:
- Proctored Exams
- 48 hours grading turn-around
- Live technical and student support
- Free transcription to your destination school
- 150+ partner college and universities with direct articulation
- Self Paced
- Psychology
- Content by McGraw-Hill
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define psychology and describe the four goals of psychology.
- Identify the origins of the field of psychology and analyze how various methods, people and theories have impacted early psychology to evolve into contemporary psychology.
- Propose ways in which psychologists can apply their expertise in society.
- Analyze how race, culture, and ethnicity influence behavior.
- Describe the discipline and practice of sociocultural psychology.
- Define the concept hypothesis and theory, analyze the requirements for using the scientific method in psychology, and identify the importance of objectivity in psychological research.
- Analyze research methods in psychology and explain the descriptive research designs.
- Identify experiments using correlational and experimental research methods.
- Define the nervous system and analyze how the body works with the nervous system to generate behavior.
- Compare and contrast the central, peripheral nervous systems, somatic, and autonomic nervous systems.
- Distinguish between the Gestalt principles and identify the process of sensory perception.
- Summarize the effects of drug addiction and dependence and produce real life scenarios resulting from drug abuse.
- Explain cognitive-social approaches to learning. Compare and contrast the characteristics of observational and latent learning.
- Create an original diagram showing the regions of the brain that influence memory.
- Identify Carl Jung's influence on the study of psychosexual development.
- Compare and contrast methods and theories for measuring and assessing personality.
- Identify the relationship between prejudice and stereotypes and describe how these constructions affect our attributions about other people's behavior.
- Distinguish among the explanations for prejudice and identify some effective techniques for combating prejudice.
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| 1 | The History of Science In Psychology |
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| 2 | Scientific Method In Psychology |
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| 3 | Biology and Behavior |
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| 4 | Sensation and Perception |
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| 5 | States of Consciousness |
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| 6 | Cognitive Development |
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| 7 | Memory |
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| 8 | Intelligence and Reason |
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| 9 | Motivation and Emotion |
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| 10 | Developmental Psychology |
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| 11 | Gender and Sex |
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| 12 | Personality |
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| 13 | Stress and Health |
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| 14 | Psychological Disorder |
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| 15 | Social Psychology |
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There are no prerequisites to take Introduction to Psychology.
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Your final exam is proctored live online and requires a webcam. For additional questions, please refer to the FAQ on Online Proctoring or contact your student advisors at 877-787-8375. StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
If you have chosen a to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.
There are a total of 1000 points in the course:
| Topic | Assessment | Points Available |
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| 4 | Graded Exam #1 | 175 |
| 8 | Graded Exam #2 |
175 |
| 12 | Graded Exam #3 | 175 |
| 15 | Graded Exam #4 | 175 |
| Review | Final Graded Exam |
300 |
| Total | 1000 |
Final Proctored Exam
The final exam is developed to assess the knowledge you learned taking this course. All students are required to take an online proctored final exam in order complete the course and be eligible for transfer credit.
Good
It's a good course. The key to passing the course is getting to know the principles from the book.
It's a good course. The key to passing the course is getting to know the principles from the book.
A lot of work, but worth it.
A lot of work, but worth it.
You must retain a lot of information. The questions on the final exam are very tricky.
As long as you read the book and pay attention to what you read you will do fine in this class.
This course is about general psychology.
Very good course for a general introduction to psychology.
Very good course for a general introduction to psychology.
This is a good but difficult course. I learned a lot about every aspect of psychology and it gave me many opportunities to seek help if I needed it.
This is a good but difficult course. I learned a lot about every aspect of psychology and it gave me many opportunities to seek help if I needed it.
Good
You must retain a lot of information. The questions on the final exam are very tricky.
This is a basic and simple overview of psychology.
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As long as you read the book and pay attention to what you read you will do fine in this class.
This course is about general psychology.
This is a basic and simple overview of psychology.
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lengthy but interesting
It's mostly based on book information. The online model seemed obsolete when it comes to the tests.
It was very helpful to know how to find things in the book associated with this class.
This course was very interesting. This was my first time learning this, and straighterline's textbook was very clear and I understood everything. I would forsure recommend it to anyone!
You must read the text because the tests are based upon the text and not the slides that are posted online
Basic psychology, mind and body
The course was fun, and the textbook and information are well chosen. however, the answers tend to be incorrect on the exams and I always need to double check with the course people. It is a little tedious.
I felt I learned more from this course rather than a traditional one. Plus, I was able to do the course on my own schedule.
Enjoyed it overall as psychology is a topic that has always interested me.
I like it that i could take it online and learn about the mind people go through
I like the fact that I can do these courses on my own time, with affordable costs.
I liked the class presentations and reading assigments.
I liked the flexibility of when and how I would complete the course.
I liked the review games!
I really like the additional resources throughout the lessons, like the videos and interviews.
The assignments we fine and easy
The computer lessons were interesting and fun.
The course was direct to the point, read, study, do review activities, and test. Perfect.
The lesson presentations were very helpful and went along with the chapter/chapters that it was covering. The review activities were also very helpful.
The review activities are very helpful, it helps break up the monotony of reading my textbook.