Welcome to Psychology

Psychology is the study of all aspects of human behavior and mental processes. It is the study of how people think, act, and feel in their everyday lives. Psychology helps explain why people do the things that they do, but it will also shed light on your own action, reactions and motivations. It is a scientific approach to the study of behavior and mental processes.

Each year, thousands of students across the United States study psychology in courses just like this. To help you examine some of the different concepts in this course, you will be joined by a group of students enrolled in a Psychology course at a school called Woodlawn Heights High School. Learn more about this "cast" of characters by viewing this introductory interactivity. Click the player button to begin.

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Along with the students in Mr. Baker's class, you will study:

• Psychology as a field of study;
• The early pioneers of psychology;
• The relationship between the nervous system and hormones;
• The brain;
• States of consciousness;
• The impacts of drug use;
• How humans and animals learn;
• Human development;
• Memory;
• Components of thought;
• Intelligence;
• Motives and actions;
• Emotion;
• Stress and its impacts;
• Personality;
• Psychological disorders; and
• Group behavior.