In this chapter we look at just how the brain and nervous system are able to control nearly everything we do by starting with the smallest piece, a nerve cell or neuron, and then looking at the structure of the entire nervous system and its subsystems, the central and peripheral nervous systems. Along with the nervous system we will consider the endocrine glandular system, the body’s other major communication system. We will also look in-depth at the brain and its major parts, focusing especi This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

Rather than focusing on what we traditionally think of as psychology, therapy, this text seeks to highlight psychology as a science and begins by exploring the four major research perspectives: biological and cognitive, which focus on internal factors, and behavioral and sociocultural, which focus on external factors. We then move onto descriptive, correlational, and experimental research methods, all used by psychologists to study human behavior and mental processing. Finally we look at how This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

In this lesson, we will go over an introduction to the course. I will give an introduction to psychology, and a summary of the content. There are two textbooks for this course, both are optional:

Griggs, R. (2014). Psychology: A Concise Introduction (Fourth Edition). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
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