TITLE Try These Brain Foods to Improve Your Mood DESCRIPTION Can food affect our mood in the sense of improving it when we feel stressed? Can food affect our feelings of depression? Are there such things as comfort foods? “For years research on healthy eating has focused primarily on physical health and the link… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Introduction To Psychology
Psychology Update — Pandemic Anxiety Is Fueling a Rise in OCD Symptoms
TITLE Pandemic Anxiety Is Fueling a Rise in OCD Symptoms DESCRIPTION This is a very long and extremely comprehensive article that not only discusses Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the causes and treatments, but also, more importantly, how the pandemic has increased the incidence of the disorder. The article begins with an anecdotal case about Roasalyn. … Read more »
PSYCHOLOGY WEBSITE OF THE WEEK — American Psychological Association
PSYCHOLOGY WEBSITE OF THE WEEK TITLE American Psychological Association URL https://www.apa.org/topics DESCRIPTION This is the official website of the American Psychological Association. It is listed here for teaching purposes to fulfill the APA guidelines for teaching Introductory Psychology. Students should be directed to the site for an understanding of… Read more »
Welcome to Wiley Introductory Psychology Weekly Updates
WELCOME STATEMENT Welcome to Wiley Introductory Psychology Weekly Updates Every Monday through June you will find wonderful resources to enhance your learning, teaching and to engage in discussions. With each “published” edition, you will discover two or three interesting provocative articles to use as “triggers” to discuss important issues that relate to your learning… Read more »
Psychology Update — Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental Health
TITLE Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental Health DESCRIPTION Most of us think of “virtual reality” as a headset with games. However, over the past few decades VR has been used a an important tool in treating a variety of Psychological Disorders. “The term “virtual reality” had been coined less… Read more »
Psychology Update — ANXIETY
TITLE ANXIETY DESCRIPTION WOW! This is quite a comprehensive article about the topic of ANXIETY!!! The article covers the entire spectrum of the disorder, symptoms, types, causes, and treatments. “Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation. Mentally it is characterized by increased arousal and apprehension tortured into distressing worry, and… Read more »
Psychology Update — How Does Hypnosis Work? Here’s What the Science Says
TITLE How Does Hypnosis Work? Here’s What the Science Says DESCRIPTION Many think of hypnosis as a form of entertainment seen on stage or in the movies. Also, hypnosis has gotten a bad reputation from early charlatans who tried to employ the process of nefarious purposes. “But hypnosis has a surprisingly robust scientific framework…. Read more »
Psychology Update — The superpowers of the psychology major
TITLE The superpowers of the psychology major Some thoughts on the unique strengths of a psychology major DESCRIPTION Thinking about majoring in the field of psychology but feel that you might have been deterred by others or by “negative stereotypes” related to majoring in the field. Dr. Stephen L. Chew provides a wonderful and… Read more »
Psychology Update — Why You Forget Names Immediately—And How to Remember Them
TITLE Why You Forget Names Immediately—And How to Remember Them DESCRIPTION A fascinating article that explains how and why we forget some names very quickly after introductions and why we remember others. “A common name may be forgettable because it doesn’t strike your mind as interesting, or because you know multiple people with… Read more »
Psychology Update — 3 Recent Articles Related To the topic of ANXIETY
3 Recent Articles Related To the topic of ANXIETY ARTICLE #1 TITLE 4 Types of Anxiety On situational, biological, psychological, and existential anxiety. DESCRIPTION Students of Psychology should consider this a very important article from Psychology Today postings. The author discusses anxiety and categorizes the various causal agents as well as corresponding therapies. Many… Read more »
Psychological Science: The Curious Mind
Abnormal Psychology, 15th Edition DSM-5-TR Update
Behavioral Neuroscience
Personality, 15th Edition
Cognition, 11th Edition
