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Leadership in Organizations by Gary Yukl. About Noba and the Diener Education Fund. The Diener Education Fund (DEF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded with the mission of re-imagining higher education to better serve the changing needs of students and professors.

About Noba and the Diener Education Fund

The focus of the DEF is on making information -- especially of the type found in textbooks -- widely available to people of all backgrounds. This mission is embodied in the Noba Project. Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs. The goals of Noba are three-fold: The Diener Education Fund is co-founded by Drs. Acknowledgements The Diener Education Fund would especially like to acknowledge the generous financial contributions of the Frank C. Ian Goodfellow - After 2.5 years, my co-authors and I have...

OpenStax CNX. Introduction to Psychology Textbook. Open Textbook Library. About the Book When you teach Introduction to Psychology, do you find it difficult — much harder than teaching classes in statistics or research methods?

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Do you easily give a lecture on the sympathetic nervous system, a lecture on Piaget, and a lecture on social cognition, but struggle with linking these topics together for the student? Do you feel like you are presenting a laundry list of research findings rather than an integrated set of principles and knowledge? Have you wondered how to ensure your course is relevant to your students? If so, then you have something in common with Charles Stangor. This book is designed to facilitate these learning outcomes, and he has used three techniques to help focus students on behavior: Chapter Openers: Each chapter opens showcasing an interesting real world example of people who dealing with behavioral questions and who can use psychology to help them answer them. Table of Contents About the Authors Reviews See the review rubric. Open Textbooks.

An Introduction to Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt. Foundations Of Cognitive Psychology - (Malestrom) Introduction to Psychology. College Open Textbooks - Search. Psychology. Open Textbook Library. About the Book While Research Methods in Psychology is fairly traditional— making it easy for you to use with your existing courses — it also emphasizes a fundamental idea that is often lost on undergraduates: research methods are not a peripheral concern in our discipline; they are central.

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The overarching goal of this textbook is to present the basics of psychological research methods — focusing on the concepts and skills that are most widely shared within the discipline — emphasizing both their centrality to our field and their contribution to our understanding of human behavior. The book will include several features that will help accomplish this overarching goal. The Core Concepts: Dr. Online texts. Professor Jim Herod and I have written Multivariable Calculus ,a book which we and a few others have used here at Georgia Tech for two years.

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We have also proposed that this be the first calculus course in the curriculum here, but that is another story.... Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative. Here is one that has also been used here at Georgia Tech. Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics, by Evans Harrell and James Herod. Yet another one produced at Georgia Tech is Linear Algebra, Infinite Dimensions, and Maple, by James Herod. TITLE - Libgen Project - Free Internet Library. Online texts. TextbookRevolution.

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(Over 50,000 are in our "curated collection", representing entries we've personally edited. The rest are in our "extended shelves", entries that are provided by other organizations and imported in bulk.) All of the books we list should be free at least for personal, noncommercial use. You can: See also Books in progress or requested. Search Results. Vtstutorials.co. Supporting the development of Internet research skills We provide a small selection of materials for you to download, copy and adapt for use in your own teaching or training.

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Leaflet We are currently unable to offer any printed promotional materials for the Virtual Training Suite. Posters. Introduction to Psychology. History of Psychology. It is always a difficult question to ask, where to begin to tell the story of the history of psychology.

History of Psychology

Some would start with ancient Greece; others would look to a demarcation in the late 19th century when the science of psychology was formally proposed and instituted. These two perspectives, and all that is in between, are appropriate for describing a history of psychology. The interested student will have no trouble finding an abundance of resources on all of these time frames and perspectives (Goodwin, 2011; Leahey, 2012; Schultz & Schultz, 2007). For the purposes of this module, we will examine the development of psychology in America and use the mid-19th century as our starting point. Knowledge Evolved. Classics in Psychology. MIT9_00SCF11_text. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.

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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

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