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Hocbigg - Psychology	Path to a free self-taught education in Psychology!

Contents

• Summary
• Communities
• Curriculum
• Code of conduct

Summary

The Psychology curriculum is a complete education in Psychology using online materials.

Organization

This repository is organized into three main components:

• Core Curriculum (this page): the foundational knowledge of the field;
• Advanced Topics: focused study in specific areas;
• Projects: support learning through practical application throughout the curriculum.

Process: Learners may work through the curriculum independently or collaboratively, and either sequentially or selectively.

• For simplicity, courses in the Core Curriculum are ordered according to their prerequisites.
• The Core Curriculum provides a shared foundation and is intended to be completed in full.
• Advanced Topics are optional; learners are encouraged to select one area of focus and complete all courses within that topic.

Practical work is integrated through the Projects section and may be undertaken alongside coursework.

Note: When there are courses or books that don't fit into the curriculum but are otherwise of high quality, they belong in extras/courses, extras/readings.

How to contribute

Communities

• Forums:

  • Psych Forums
  • Student Doctor Network - Psychology
  • The Grad Cafe - Psychology Forum
  • Psychology Forum
  • Social Psychology Network Forums

• Subreddits:

  • r/psychology
  • r/psychologystudents
  • r/AcademicPsychology
  • r/psychologyresearch
  • r/socialpsychology

• Discord servers:

  • Psychology Den
  • Psychology Nerds
  • Noetica (Psychometrics & Psychology)

• Other:

  • Psychologists on Mastodon
  • sciences.social (Mastodon Instance)
  • APA Online Communities

• You can also interact through GitHub issues. If there is a problem with a course, or a change needs to be made to the curriculum, this is the place to start the conversation. Read more here.

• Join our Discord server (for discussions around this and other curricula):

  

Curriculum

• Foundations of Psychology
• Scientific Tools of Psychology
• Biological & Perceptual Systems
• Core Cognitive & Learning Systems
• Development & Motivation
• Personality & Measurement
• Social & Cultural Systems
• Mental Health & Applied Psychology

Note: Personality & Measurement is not required for a solid general understanding of the field.

Foundations of Psychology

What psychology is, where it came from, and how it thinks.

Subject	Book	Course
Introduction to Psychology	OpenStax – Psychology 2e (free web/PDF)	Yale PSYC 110 (full lectures/videos)
History & Systems	Benjafield – A History of Psychology (free borrowable scan on Internet Archive)	Yale PSYC 110 (historical lectures)
Ethics in Psychology	APA Ethics Code + OpenStax Research Ethics	Noba Ethics Modules (includes ethics in research/science)

Scientific Tools of Psychology

How psychologists generate and evaluate knowledge.

Subject	Book	Course
Statistics for Psychology	Gravetter & Wallnau – Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (free borrowable scan)	Khan Academy Statistics (full free course)
Research Methods	Shaughnessy et al. – Research Methods in Psychology (free borrowable scan)	edX Introduction to Psychological Research Methods (free to audit)

Biological & Perceptual Systems

How brains produce experience.

Subject	Book	Course
Biological Psychology	OpenStax Psychology 2e (Neuroscience chapters)	Stanford Human Behavioral Biology (full Sapolsky lectures on YouTube)
Sensation & Perception	OpenStax Psychology 2e	MIT OCW Sensation & Perception (full course materials)

Core Cognitive & Learning Systems

How minds process information and change.

Subject	Book	Course
Cognitive Psychology	Noba – Cognitive Psychology Collection (browse modules)	Yale Cognition lectures (PSYC 110 subset)
Learning & Conditioning	Noba – Learning	MIT OCW Neural Basis of Learning and Memory (related full course)
Memory & Attention	Noba – Memory & Attention (related modules)	MIT OCW Cognitive Science

Development & Motivation

How humans grow and what drives them.

Subject	Book	Course
Developmental Psychology	OpenStax Psychology 2e (Lifespan)	Open University Introduction to Child Psychology (free course; extends to lifespan concepts)
Motivation & Emotion	Noba – Motivation & Emotion (related modules)	Yale PSYC 110 Emotion Lectures (e.g., Emotions Parts I/II)

Personality & Measurement

How people differ and how we measure it.

Subject	Book	Course
Personality Psychology	Noba – Personality	YouTube: Personality Theory (APA-aligned)
Psychological Testing	Noba – Psychological Measurement	Open University Psychometrics

Social & Cultural Systems

How humans influence each other.

Subject	Book	Course
Social Psychology	Noba – Social Psychology	Yale SOM Social Psychology
Cultural Psychology	Noba – Cultural Psychology	MIT OCW Culture & Cognition

Mental Health & Applied Psychology

When systems break—and how we intervene.

Subject	Book	Course
Abnormal Psychology	OpenStax Psychology 2e + Noba Abnormal	Yale Psychopathology
Health Psychology	OpenStax Psychology 2e	Stanford Health Psychology

Code of conduct

Hocbigg's code of conduct.