Introduction to Psychology

Try this: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

On a basic level, the Youtube series "Crash Course" has a good (if fast-paced) overview of many first-year psychology concepts. If you have access to audible.com, then the Great Courses also have a few good lecture series on psychology. Some universities also make their lectures available online for free, like Yale. Or you could look online for the PDFs for a first-year introduction to psych/AP Psychology textbook.

I recommend Coursera(not sponsored). Just audit the course instead of buying it. A general psychology course should do the trick. This one here should do the trick.

Nowadays there's many uni courses you can take online for free! Here are some intro to psych courses for free: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology / https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

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If you have an hour of time to spare you can learn from these courses

Have you considered taking an introductory psychology course online? They usually cover all topics of psychology short and broadly, so you can get an idea of what each field is like.
Eg coursera offers one for free I haven't tried it out myself but usually teaching sessions are bite sized and concise. Seems good for when you only have 10 - 20 minutes of free time at once!

Also, if you are interested more on course material you can easily enroll at eg studydrive (just pick a random uni and pick bachelors psychology programme) and you can look at study notes other students are sharing (they likely are not ideal, but give a good overview of what is expected from you in the course). This maybe gives you a better idea of what is thaught in Psychology rather than reading pop-science books, that are likely biased and feed you wrong info!

I forgot to mention this before but Yale university actually offers an Introduction to Psychology program free online if you're interested:

Introduction to Psychology: Yale University

I prefer this one:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

If you want a broad overview of psychology, I'd suggest something like a Coursera course. It looks like this Yale Intro Psych course is still free if you don't need the certificate, and it just started today. I can vouch from personal experience that Paul Bloom is an excellent lecturer - funny and charismatic.

Prof just described RimWorld in two words!

You can take this class from the following link, if you'd like:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

Maybe we can understand better why we become psychopaths.

Imma quote one of my professors when someone got interested in Psychology "Another one has seen the light!". I personally dislike books that can be labeled as "pop-psychology", this means books that try to sell you on "How to get others on your side" or "How to read human expressions" or my personally detested "Dark Psychology: a book on how to use Psychology to manipulate others". I'm a nerd, i like textbooks. If you're not a textbook fan that's normal and I'm fairly certain there are less dense ways to learn a subject

First off, if you're brand new to the field and haven't taken a course on Psychology then i recommend the "Psychology for dummies" book, it's very simple with none of the jargon. If you took a high school level class you can sorta skip this recommendation, but a refresher goes a long way.

There's also a Coursera course for introduction to Psychology which is pretty good (https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology). Highly recommend it if you have the time.

For textbook recommendations, honestly you can go to Amazon and write "Psychology Textbooks" and you'll get a lot of options which are mostly the same, especially college level introductory textbooks. Here you can find a downloadable textbook (https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e). If not you can do a pirate impression and get other books online.

And if you don't have money or are skeptical of links from a stranger online you can use wikipedias Psychology entry. That's literally where I learned about this field 9 years ago during 9th grade and am currently coursing a clinical psych doctoral program

You can also check out youtube with searches like "Intro to Psychology", there are a couple that do a great job explaining basics and even more advanced concepts.

Hope this helps!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology

I may be able to recommend some books if I know what type of psychology you’re interested in or why you want to learn.

I have heard great things from this project!

https://nobaproject.com/

Make also try this Intro Course from Yale on Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology?

Psychology is such a broad topic…

If you're into podcasts, I suggest a listening to the Very Bad Wizards podcast! They discuss extremely interesting topics and you will learn a lot about psychology and philosophy. I would start with the episodes that feature Dr. Paul Bloom, a distinguished professor of psychology at Yale. There is also Two Psychologists Four Beers and The Black Goat podcasts.

Alternatively, you could start with few books to get a taste of some psychological principles. Stuff by Malcolm Gladwell like Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, touches on some topics in psychology that are fun, but have (arguably) been sensationalized. There’s also Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and A Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel (one of my personal favorites). You can also watch multiple psychology lectures on YouTube and actually participate in some courses on Coursera.com for free (https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology).

I majored in psychology so let me know if you have any other questions!

Try some free online courses first and see which peaks your interest more. Don't worry about what career quizzes say, or things of that nature, find something that speaks to you and that you find enjoyable.

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Example courses:

(1) Psych

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology?

(2)

https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-science

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Programming itself can be looked at as an art. People will write programs in a myriad of different ways, and some are more 'aesthetic' than others. Sometimes people come up with some really creative solutions to solve problems.

However, programming is still a very logical process. Computers will only perform the instructions they are given, so attention to the detail of the logical outcomes of a given code is important. I don't want to speak much towards Psych, because I have little experience with it, but I would imagine there is more interpretation involved when working with patients.

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Good luck!

I don't know about books, but I do strongly recommend her(?) to try out some recorded lectures or MOOCs on Psychology 101, just to get used to the flavour of what a university lecture might be like (you can audit all of them for free). Some that I can find right now:

• Introduction to Developmental Psychology from the University of Queensland-->this one's a live MOOC so it's released in real time but you can audit it for free
• Paul Bloom from Yale University has a couple of psych courses. The Open Yale Course version is a bit older and cruder-filmed but it's more of a classroom environment. He also has a Coursera version of the same course
• If your relative wants to look at implications for ethics from psychology, try Bloom's Moralities of Everyday Life
• Introduction to Psychology by Steve Joordens of the University of Toronto

I suck at C/P and kaplan books are NOT helping

I am a nontrad and it's been 5-6 years since I've taken C/P courses... i've been trying to read through the kaplan books and the P/S khan academy documents, but I haven't been able to retain ANYTHING. Recently, I've been seeing posts about these free online courses on coursera and I brushed it off at first, but I am on the verge of shooting myself so I checked it out. Decided to enroll into these courses and for the first time since quarantine, I'm actually kind of excited to learn! You can get through a whole module in 1-3 days. I think I saw a biochem course as well :) I hope this might be of some help to anyone that's having trouble studying right now\~

Intro to Psych: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology?

Intro to Chem:

• Reaction/ratios: https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-chemistry
• Structures/solutions: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-chemistry

Intro to Physics: https://www.coursera.org/learn/how-things-work?