49 Psychology
Psychology (PSY)
Always Developing: An Open Educational Resource on the Psychology of Adult Development∗ 
Anne Dull Baird (University of Windsor)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
We will look at how we change physically over time from emerging and early adulthood through aging and death. We will examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over time. We will consider how our concerns and psychological state are influenced by age and finally, how our social relationships change throughout life.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
PSY 2114 Lifespan Psychology
PSY 5114 Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
The Balance of Personality∗
Chris Allen (Portland State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This open-access textbook was developed as an upper-division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open-access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested in teaching about theory and research on personality.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 3303 Personality
PSY 5111 Theories of Personality
The Brain from Top to Bottom∗
Bruno Dubuc, Patrick Robert, Denis Paquet and Al Daigen (McGill University)
2012
Licence: Copyleft
Interactive website about the human brain and behaviour. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. With up-to-date blog.
Format: Website
Suggested for:
PSY 3301 Behavioural Neuroscience
PSY 4180 Human Neuropsychology
PSY 5125 Principles of Neuropsychology
Culture and Psychology: How People Shape and are Shaped by Culture∗
L. D. Worthy, Trisha Lavigne, and Fernando Romero (Maricopa Community Colleges)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
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PSY 3126 Cross-Cultural Psychology
Developmental Psychology∗
Bill Pelz (Herkimer College)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This course is designed to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Developmental Psychology. In this course you will examine the cultural, social, psychological, and physiological influences which impact human development from conception to death. You – the student – will provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence in this course.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
PSY 2114 Lifespan Psychology
PSY 5114 Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
Human Development∗
Human Development Teaching and Learning Group (Portland State University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This open textbook is designed for Human Development, a core Psychology course. This course provides a bird’s eye view of major milestones and developmental tasks during each age period, starting at conception and ending with old age.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 2114 Lifespan Psychology
PSY 5114 Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
Introduction to Applied Statistics for Psychology Students∗
Gordon E. Sarty (University of Saskatchewan)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Introduction to Applied Statistics for Psychology Students, by Gordon E. Sarty (Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan) began as a textbook published in PDF format, in various editions between 2014-2017. The book was written to meet the needs of University of Saskatchewan psychology students at the undergraduate (PSY 233, PSY 234) level.
Formats: Pressbooks webbooks, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 2106 Quantitative Methods in Psychology I
PSY 2116 Quantitative Methods in Psychology II
Introduction to Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change∗
Edited by Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O’Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian (DePaul University)
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Quizzes and lecture slides
Suggested for:
PSY 4134 Community Psychology
PSY 6116 Community Psychology
UPEI Introduction to Psychology 1
Philip Smith (University of Prince Edward Island)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This Introduction to Psychology is an adaptation of OpenStax’s Psychology and Noba’s Introduction to Psychology: The Full Noba Collection.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Includes: Learning objectives, discussion questions, and vocabulary
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Introduction to Psychology∗
Jorden A. Cummings and Lee Sanders (University of Saskatchewan)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This introductory text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from a number of open text publications, including Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition (Stangor & Wallinga, 2014), the Noba Project, and Research Methods in Psychology – 3rd American Edition (Price, Jhangiani, Chiang, Leighton, & Cuttler, 2017). This version of the text includes a Key Terms list for each chapter, an expanded glossary, and H5P chapter self-tests.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Interactive self-tests and key takeaways
Reviews: BCcampus
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PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Introduction to Psychology∗
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to intro students. This book help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. Psychology matters because it helps us understand behavior and that our knowledge of psychology is based on empirical study.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI and, more
Includes: Learning objectives, key takeaways, exercises, and chapter summaries
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Introduction to Psychology & Neuroscience∗
Introduction to Psychology and Neuroscience Team (Dalhousie University)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
An introductory psychology textbook with a heavy focus on neuroscience. It is an adaptation by a team at Dalhousie University, based on Psychology 2e from OpenStax and a few other related open textbooks. Some Canadian content has been incorporated.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Includes: Videos, key terms, review questions.
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
PSY 1102 Introduction to Psychology: Applications
Introduction to Psychology: The Full Noba Collection∗
Robert Biswas-Diener (Noba) and Edward Diener (University of Utah)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This textbook represents the entire catalog of Noba topics. It contains over 100 learning modules covering every area of psychology commonly taught in introductory courses. This book can be modified: feel free to rearrange or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Please note that the publisher requires you to log in to download the textbooks.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: Review questions and links to external resources such as websites, videos, and podcasts
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition∗
Jennifer Walinga (Royal Roads University) and Charles Stangor (University of Maryland)
2014
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI and more
Includes: Index, glossary, and exercises, instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, case studies, and exercises and critical thinking problems.
Reviews: eCampusOntario Open Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Introduction to Sensation and Perception∗
Edited by Cheryl Olman (University of Minnesota)
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This book was created by the students of PSY 3031: Sensation and Perception, as a class project, because there is no existing open-source textbook for S&P. Content is, for the most part, re-used and re-mixed from existing open-source materials from Psychology and Anatomy textbooks. We needed to do this project because we need a resource that goes into greater depth than the Sensation and Perception sections of introductory psychology textbooks. We also wanted to create a resource with a stronger neuroscience foundation than your average psychology textbook, with strong links between physiology and perception. The final product will always be a work in progress, but hopefully a useful collection of materials to support college-level courses that want to understand how human physiology supports human perceptual experiences.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested for:
PSY 3108 Perception [as supplemental resource]
Introduction to Substance Use Disorders∗
Patricia A. Stoddard Dare (Cleveland State University) and Audrey Begun (Ohio State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Introduction to Substance Use Disorders (2020) is an Open Educational Resource book designed for use in an introductory substance misuse course. These materials were developed using a variety of published sources and online materials, including resources produced by U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behavior (2020), edited by A.L. Begun and M.M. Murray, and most notably Theories and Biological Basis of Substance Misuse, Part I and Part 2 by A.L. Begun.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
PSY 3142 Drugs and Behaviour
Lifespan Development∗
Lumen Learning
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.
Format: Online
Suggested for:
PSY 2114 Lifespan Psychology
PSY 5114 Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
Lifespan Development – A Psychological Perspective∗
Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French (College of Lake County), adapted by Erin Barker (Concordia University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Based on the original version from LibreTexts, this textbook reviews the major theoretical approaches that shape our understanding of development from conception to death. In each chapter, up-to-date research findings describe and explain biological, psychological, and social development across the life course. Supplementary materials have been added to this edition including Canadian resources and comprehension exercises.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 2114 Lifespan Psychology
PSY 5114 Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
Neuroscience: Canadian 3rd Edition∗
William Ju, Maksym Shcherbina, Adel Halawa, Justin Jarovo,and Maryna Pilkiw (University of Toronto)
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Neuroscience: Canadian 3rd Edition is a comprehensive source that examines the nervous system, neurodegeneration, techniques in studying neuroscience and emerging topics in the field.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: Interactive questions, flowcharts, figures.
Suggested for:
PSY 3301 Behavioural Neuroscience
PSY 5103 Fundamentals of Behavioural Neuroscience
Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspective∗
Mark D. Kelland (Lansing Community College)
2015
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This text covers general personality theory, with an emphasis on cultural aspects affecting personality development. There is also a section focusing on making positive choices in the development of one’s personality from a number of different cultural/philosophical perspectives.
Formats: Online, PDF, and Word
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 3303 Personality
PSY 5111 Theories of Personality
Principles of Social Psychology: 1st International Edition∗
Charles Stangor (University of Maryland), Rajiv Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), and Hammond Tarry (Capilano University)
2017
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The first International edition of this textbook provides students with an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of social psychology from an interactionist perspective. The presentation of classic studies and theories are balanced with insights from cutting-edge, contemporary research. An emphasis on real world examples and applications is intended to guide students to critically analyze their situations and social interactions in order to put their knowledge to effective use.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Question bank, PPT slides
Suggested for:
PSY 2110 Social Psychology
PSY 5113 Fundamentals of Social Psychology
The Psychology Commons
Queen’s University
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
A dynamic and growing library of open, online, learning resources in Psychology.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Suggested as a general resource for Psychology courses
Psychology – H5P Edition∗
Rose M. Spielman (Quinnipiac University), Kathryn Dumper (Bainbridge State College), William Jenkins (Mercer University), Arlene Lacombe (Saint Joseph’s University), Marilyn Lovett (Spelman College), and Marion Perlmutter (University of Michigan)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Psychology – H5P Edition is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: Interactive activities
Suggested for:
PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
PSY 1102 Introduction to Psychology: Applications
The Psychology of Human Thought: An Introduction∗
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg (Cornell University) and Joachim Funke (Heidelberg University)
2019
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
The Psychology of Human Thought is an open access collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metacognition, language, expertise, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, development of thought, affect and thought, and sections about history and about methods. The chapters are written by distinguished scholarly experts in their respective fields, coming from such diverse regions as North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Australia. The level of the chapters is addressed to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.
Format: PDF
Suggested for:
PSY 3377 Cognition
Psychology: OpenStax∗
Rose M. Spielman (Quinnipiac University), William Jenkins (Mercer University), Kathryn Dumper (Bainbridge State College), Marilyn Lovett (Livingstone College), and Marion Perlmutter (University of Michigan) (OpenStax)
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Psychology is designed to meet the scope and sequence for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. For many students, this may be their only college-level psychology course. As such, this textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of psychology and understand how those concepts apply to their lives. The authors strive to make psychology, as a discipline, interesting and accessible to students. Comprehensive coverage of core concepts is grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research, including coverage of the DSM-5 in discussions of psychological disorders. The text incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Summaries, glossary, exercises, and review questions
Reviews: eCampusOntario Open Library – Open Textbook Library
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PSY 1101 Introduction to Psychology: Foundations
Research Methods in Psychology, 3rd Canadian Edition∗
Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada), Carrie Cuttler (Washington State University), Dana C. Leighton (Texas A&M University), and Molly A. Metz
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This adaptation constitutes the fourth edition of this textbook, and builds upon the second Canadian edition, the second American edition, and the third American edition and feedback from several peer reviewers coordinated by the Rebus Community. This peer-reviewed open textbook introduces students to the fundamental principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher. Psychology, like most other sciences, has its own set of tools to investigate the important research questions of its field. Unlike other sciences, psychology is a relatively new field with methods and practices that are evolving at a rapid rate. With this textbook, we introduce students to the fundamental principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher. A comprehensive textbook for research methods classes. A peer-reviewed inter-institutional project.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, EPUB, and MOBI
Suggested for:
PSY 2174 Research Methods and Ethics
Together: The Science of Social Psychology∗
Robert Biswas-Diener (Noba)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The science of social psychology investigates the ways other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is an exciting field of study because it is so familiar and relevant to our day-to-day lives. Social psychologists study a wide range of topics that can roughly be grouped into 5 categories: attraction, attitudes, peace & conflict, social influence, and social cognition. This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships.
Formats: Online and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PSY 2110 Social Psychology
The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years
Doris Buckley and Deirdre Budzyna (Northern Essex Community College)
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This text gives an overview of development, beginning in the mother’s womb through about the age of eight. It starts with a look at perspectives of early childhood, including how children have been viewed historically as well as cross-culturally. Following this chapter, there is a complete overview of the important theorists that have helped to deepen and bring clarity to how children develop.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: glossary
Suggested for:
PSY 2105 Child Development
