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Math for Economists (saylor.org)

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Math for Economists (saylor.org)
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Math for Economists will help you assemble a toolkit of skills and techniques to solve fundamental problems in both macroeconomics and microeconomics. The material covers both precalculus and calculus concepts and should help you identify the best approach to solving problems.

Gender and Sexuality (saylor.org)

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Gender and Sexuality (saylor.org)
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This course will introduce you to the psychology behind gender and sexuality, or the study of the different ways our gender roles and sexual identities impact our lives. Although the terms “gender” and “sex” are often used synonymously in everyday speech, this course will assign the terms two different [...]

Theories of Personality (saylor.org)

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Theories of Personality (saylor.org)
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Personality psychology is the study of the development of personality, the effects of personality on important outcomes, and attempts to make beneficial changes to maladaptive personality characteristics. Personality theories, therefore, differ in how much they focus on development of personality, change in personality, characterizing components of personality, and [...]

Psychotherapy (saylor.org)

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Psychotherapy (saylor.org)
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Psychotherapy refers to the practices clinical psychologists use to treat mental disorders. While “therapy” can denote any intervention undertaken with the goal of healing someone (including medicinal treatments for physical problems), psychotherapy is specific in that it uses certain cognitive, behavioral, and emotional regulation techniques. Based on pop culture [...]

Cultural Psychology (saylor.org)

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Cultural Psychology (saylor.org)
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Cultural Psychology reviews the cultural, community, and ecological factors that play a role in how people perceive their environment. It is the integration of the nature and nurture phenomenas, whereby an individual’s psyche is determined, or at least influenced, by both that individual’s culture and those other cultures [...]

Neuropsychology (saylor.org)

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Neuropsychology (saylor.org)
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How does the brain function? How does it interact with the body in order to control and mediate behaviors and actions? Though psychologists have long studied these questions, the workings of the brain remain, in large part, a mystery. In this course, we will explore the field of psychology [...]

Abnormal Behavior (saylor.org)

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Abnormal Behavior (saylor.org)
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Abnormal psychology is perhaps one of the most recognizable and intriguing subfields of study in psychology. Part of what makes this field so intriguing is that it challenges us to define what is normal and abnormal. Most experts in the field have settled on several criteria to [...]

Sensation and Perception (saylor.org)

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Sensation and Perception (saylor.org)
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Sensation and perception are the processes by which we absorb information from environmental stimuli and convert it into data that our brains and bodies use to modify behavior. This course will introduce you to these two closely related, though distinct, processes.

The Psychology of Learning and Behavior (saylor.org)

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The Psychology of Learning and Behavior (saylor.org)
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This course introduces learners to the principles of learning and behavior by surveying relevant theoretical and empirical approaches within psychology. The overall emphasis is on the theoretical foundations of psychology as they relate to human learning and behavior.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology (saylor.org)

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology (saylor.org)
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This course will introduce you to the major concepts of and debates surrounding industrial and organizational psychology. Industrial and organizational psychology is the application of psychological research and theory to human interaction (both with other humans and with human factors, or machines and computers) in the workplace. [...]