Textbook Study Guides

These study guides are intended to guide your study of the textbook only.  They do not completely cover the content included in exams.   Exams can include content from the textbook, lecture slides, videos shown in class, and other course materials.

All files are in the Microsoft Document format, so that you can edit the files.

Click on the links below to download the textbook study guides.

• Why Science?

• Research Designs

• Neurons

• The Nervous System

• The Brain

• Vision

• Hearing

• Conditioning & Learning

• Memory (Encoding, Storage, Retrieval)

• The Nature-Nurture Question

• Functions of Emotions

• Cognitive Development in Childhood

• Social & Personality Development in Children

• The Psychodynamic Perspective

• Personality Traits

• Anxiety & Related Disorders

• Mood Disorders

• Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

• Therapeutic Orientations