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Bachelor of Community Services: CSPSY201A Foundations of Psychology

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Psychology : from inquiry to understanding (2019) - eBook and book by Scott Lilienfeld; Steven Lynn; Laura Namy
Various editions available

Recommended Websites

Readings

Bouchard, T. J. Jr., & McGue, M. (2003). Genetic and environmental influences on human psychological differences.
Journal of Neurobiology, 54(1), 4-45. https://doi.org/10.1002/neu.10160
CrashCourse. (2014, February 4). Intro to psychology - Crash Course psychology #1 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/vo4pMVb0R6M
Genetic Science Learning Center. (n.d.). Insights from identical twins.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/twins/
KhanAcademy. (n. d.). Genes, environment and behavior.
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/behavior/behavior-and-genetics/a/genes-environment-and-behavior
Khanacademymedicine. (2015, April 18). Twin studies and adoption studies - Behavior - MCAT - Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/usnv1_xRCvs
Kings College London. (2015, April 27). TEDS - The journey so far [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/-LaGbuQnBnQ
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 1 Science and pseudoscience in psychology

American Psychological Association. (2013, May 8). The importance of research methods in introductory psychology [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/JGtn-FQh9wA
Australian Psychological Society. (2007). APS Code of Ethics.
https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/d873e0db-7490-46de-bb57-c31bb1553025/18APS-Code-of-Ethics.pdf
CrashCourse. (2014, February 11). Psychological research - Crash Course psychology #2 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/hFV71QPvX2I
Critical Voices. (2013, February 12). How racist are you? Jane Elliot's blue eyes/brown eyes exercise [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/Nqv9k3jbtYU
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 2 Research methods

CrashCourse. (2014, March 4).Sensation & perception: Crash Course psychology #5 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/unWnZvXJH2o
CrashCourse. (2015, May 5). Hearing & balance: Crash Course anatomy & physiology #17 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/Ie2j7GpC4JU
CrashCourse. (2015, May 12).Vision: Crash Course anatomy & physiology #18 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/o0DYP-u1rNM
Henriques, G. (2013, May 1). Perception and perceptual illusions.
Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201305/perception-and-perceptual-illusions
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 4 Sensation and perception
Simons, D. (2010, March 11). Selective attention test [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo
TED-Ed. (2018, June 20). The science of hearing - Douglas L. Oliver [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/LkGOGzpbrCk
TEDx Talks. (2011, March 20). Seeing the world as it isn't - Daniel Simons - TEDxUIUC [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/9Il_D3Xt9W0
Udacity. (2015, February 24). Inattentional blindness: Intro to psychology [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/nzkdE3j5Bhg

CrashCourse. (2014, April 22). How to train a brain: Crash Course psychology #11 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/qG2SwE_6uVM
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 6 Learning
Thompson, C. (2009, September 13). Is happiness catching?
New York Times Magazine, pp. 28-35,42,57.
Wang, S. (2006, February 1). Contagious behavior.
Association for Psychological Science. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/contagious-behavior#.WUoIIGiGOUl

Arkowitz, H., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2010, January 1). Why science tells us not to rely on eyewitness accounts.
Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/
Bordia, P., & Difonzo, N. (2004). Problem solving in social interactions on the internet: Rumor as social cognition.
Social Psychology Quarterly, 67(1), 33-49.
Center for Inquiry. (2020, February 6). The fiction of memory: Elizabeth Loftus [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/8-zj0czji-A
CrashCourse. (2014, May 6). How we make memories: Crash Course psychology #13 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/bSycdIx-C48
CrashCourse. (2014, May 13). Remembering and forgetting: Crash Course psychology #14 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/HVWbrNls-Kw
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 7 Memory
Loftus, E. F. (2013). Eyewitness testimony in the Lockerbie bombing case.
Memory, 21(5), 584-590. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2013.774417
TED-Ed. (2014, August 27). What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/KkaXNvzE4pk
TED-Ed. (2015, September 25). How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/yOgAbKJGrTA
TED. (2012, September 11). Scott Fraser: The problem with eyewitness testimony [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/buhMdC7MO0U

CrashCourse. (2014, May 20). Cognition - How your mind can amaze and betray you: Crash Course psychology #15 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/R-sVnmmw6WY
Dean, J. (2023, March 15). Cognitive psychology: Experiments & examples.
PsyBlog. https://www.spring.org.uk/2023/03/cognitive-psychology.php
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 8 Thinking, reasoning and language
Your Entertainment. (2014, October 21). Peter Kay misheard lyrics [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/0ukn2YT5jeM

Alanis Business Academy. (2012, August 11). Maslow's hierarchy of needs [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/wx3qR3gLh60
Bozeman Science. (2012, January 10). Fight or flight response [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/m2GywoS77qc
CrashCourse. (2014, August 5). Feeling all the feels: Crash Course psychology #25 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/gAMbkJk6gnE
CrashCourse. (2014, June 3). The power of motivation: Crash Course psychology #17 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/9hdSLiHaJz8
CrashCourse. (2015, April 14). Sympathetic nervous system: Crash Course anatomy & physiology #14 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/0IDgBlCHVsA
Headspace. (2009). The effectiveness of motivational interviewing for young people with substance use and mental health disorders (Evidence summary).
National Youth Mental Health Foundation. https://headspace.org.au/assets/Uploads/Motivational-Interviewing-Young-People-with-Substance-Use-and-Mental-Health-Disorders.pdf
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 11 Emotion and motivation
TED-Ed. (2016, November 30). Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/QFk3e5PcK7s
TED. (2011, May 3). Beware online "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

Khanacademymedicine. (2013, September 18). Behavioral theory - Behavior - MCAT - Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/x7wZCtFWblE
Khanacademymedicine. (2013, September 18). Psychoanalytic theory - Behavior - MCAT - Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/jdawTFsCNtc
Khanacademymedicine. (2013, September 18). Trait theory - Behavior - MCAT - Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/Hxk6GCKUiZI
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 16 Psychological disorders
Psychology Wizard. (n.d.). Twin studies and adoption studies.
https://www.psychologywizard.net/adoption--twin-studies-ao1-ao2-ao3.html
TED. (2016, July 20). Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality: Brian Little: TED [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/qYvXk_bqlBk
Winerman, L. (2004, April). A second look at twin studies.
Monitor on Psychology, 35(4).
https://www.apa.org/monitor/apr04/second

CrashCourse. (2014, August 12). Emotion, stress, and health: Crash Course psychology #26 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/4KbSRXP0wik
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 12 Stress, coping and health
TED. (2013, September 5). How to make stress your friend: Kelly McGonigal: TED [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/RcGyVTAoXEU
TEDx Talks. (2012, April 18). Stress and the brain: Jaime Tartar at TEDxNSU [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/XQeDYBS63lY
TEDx Talks. (2015, June 17). Be the warrior not the worrier - Fighting anxiety & fear: Angela Ceberano [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/-FyVetL1MEw

Barker, E. (2014, June 25). How to make someone fall in love with you.
Time.
https://time.com/2918758/how-to-make-someone-fall-in-love-with-you/
Britt, M. A. (Host). (2017, March 22). Ep 277: How to remember names [Audio podcast].
The Psych Files. http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2017/03/ep-277-how-to-remember-names-and-the-psychology-of-that-bbc-interrupted-interview/
CrashCourse. (2014, April 29). The Bobo beatdown. Crash Course psychology #12 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/128Ts5r9NRE
CrashCourse. (2014, November 4). Social thinking: Crash Course psychology #37 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/h6HLDV0T5Q8
CrashCourse. (2014, November 12). Social influence: Crash Course psychology #38 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/UGxGDdQnC1Y
CrashCourse. (2014, November 18). Prejudice and discrimination: Crash Course psychology #39 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/7P0iP2Zm6a4
Khanacademymedicine. (2013, September 18). Observational learning: Bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory: MCAT: Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/wf3-tRpmGmY
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 13 Social psychology

Australian Human Rights Commission. (1997). Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/social_justice/bringing_them_home_report.pdf
Australian Human Rights Commission. (2014, June 12). Bringing them home: Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/Sl82VMuuKI0
Chapter 14 Cross-cultural psychology
CrashCourse. (2014, July 29). Brains vs. bias: Crash Course psychology #24 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/75g4d5sF3xI
CrashCourse. (2017, May 23). Cultures, subcultures and countercultures: Crash Course sociology #11[Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/RV50AV7-Iwc
Dudgeon, P., Milroy, H., & Walker, R. (Eds.). (2014). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice (2nd ed.).
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research/Kulunga Research Network and University of Western Australia. https://www.telethonkids.org.au/globalassets/media/documents/aboriginal-health/working-together-second-edition/working-together-aboriginal-and-wellbeing-2014.pdf
Khanacademymedicine (2014, October 24). Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group: MCAT: Khan Academy [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/HlXAeOnU520
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
TEDx Talks. (2015, July 11). How culture drives behaviours: Julien S. Bourrelle: TEDxTrondheim [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/l-Yy6poJ2zs

Britt, M. A. (Host). (2015, July 22). Ep 243: Did your therapy really work? [Audio podcast].
The Psych Files. http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2015/07/ep-243-did-your-therapy-really-work/
Chrustowski, P. (2015, October 29). Early treatment mental disorders [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/uD4rGglvmkQ
CrashCourse. (2014, August 26). Psychological disorder: Crash Course psychology #28 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/wuhJ-GkRRQc
Duncan S. (2013, May 14). Fritz Perls and Gloria - Counselling (1965) full session [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/it0j6FIxIog
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. L., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Marks, A., & Slaughter, V. (2019). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding (3rd ed.).
Pearson Australia.
Chapter 16 Psychological disorders
Smith, J. (2022, May 31). List of mental health conditions (psychological disorders).
PsychCentral. https://psychcentral.com/disorders/disorders
T Time. (2012, February 25). Lobotomy - PBS documentary, on Walter Freeman.mp4 [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/ftDGcCbkeH4