Open Educational Resources for Psychology: OER Psychology Textbooks

Written by Rose M. Spielman,PhD and published by OpenStax College, October 2017, "Psychology is designed to meet the scope and sequence for the single-semester introduction to psychology course."

Authored by Charles Stangor and distributed by FlatWorld. This text has a cost to access. Pub Date: July 2014 eISBN: 978-1-4533-6576-2 Pages: 498

This textbook's 15 units "cover the traditional areas of intro-to-psychology; ranging from biological aspects of psychology to psychological disorders to social psychology." Edward Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener, editors for the NOBA project, Feb, 2017.

This link shares open educational resources from the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Lumen Learning text covers developmental theories and life stages.

This book presents an overview of the contemporary approaches in the departments of child education and psychology, with the hope of them growing up as happy, peaceful, balanced, thoughtful confident and successful individuals.

A comprehensive textbook for research methods classes. A peer-reviewed inter-institutional project.

Overview: A comprehensive textbook for research methods classes. A peer-reviewed inter-institutional project.

Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.

Authored by Charles Stangor and distributed by FlatWorld. This text has a cost to access. Pub Date: July 2017. eISBN: 978-1-4533-8496-1 Pages: 520

"The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships." Authored by R. Biswas-Diener, Portland State University, and E. Diener (Eds), for the Noba Textbook Series.

"The first International edition of this textbook provides students with an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of social psychology from an interactionist perspective. " Author(s): Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Dr. Hammond Tarry, Capilano University, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Charles Stangor, University of Maryland, Feb 3, 2017