Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text
This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory courses. The 15 units cover the traditional areas of intro-to-psychology; ranging from biological aspects of psychology to psychological disorders to social psychology. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Each module in this book is accompanied by instructor’s manual, PowerPoint presentation, test items, adaptive student quiz, and reading anticipation guide.
Includes: Instructor resources, discussion questions, summaries
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Human Development
This open textbook is designed for Human Development, providing a bird’s eye view of major milestones and developmental tasks during each age period, starting at conception and ending with old age.
Includes: Learning objectives, optional reading
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Introduction to Applied Statistics for Psychology Students
The book was written to meet the needs of University of Saskatchewan psychology students at the undergraduate level, and features SPSS lessons.
Includes: Definitions, datasets used in SPSS lessons
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Introduction to Psychology [New]
This introductory text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from a number of open text publications [Description from resource].
Includes: summaries, key terms, and self-tests
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Introduction to Psychology, 1st Canadian Edition
This textbook is an adaptation of the open Introduction to Psychology book. A psychology professor from Royal Roads University adapted it as part of the B.C. Open Textbook Project and added several case studies, examples, and sections. This textbook, and its original version, have both been successfully adopted.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, case studies, exercises and critical thinking problems, test bank
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the BCcampus Open Textbook Collection
Introduction to Psychology Study Guide [New]
This study guide is designed to accompany the Introduction to Psychology – Ist Canadian Edition open text by Jennifer Walinga and Charles Stangor. For each chapter it summarizes the learning objectives and presents multiple-choice, true-false and fill-in-the-blank tests of the material covered. It provides links to resources to enable students to deepen their understanding of key topics and to explore related issues. Finally, it offers suggestions for hands-on activities relevant to each chapter [Description from resource].
Includes: self-testing activities, additional resources, instructor activity suggestions
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Introduction to Psychology: The Full Noba Collection
This textbook represents the entire catalog of Noba topics. It contains over 100 learning modules covering every area of psychology commonly taught in introductory courses. This book can be modified: feel free to rearrange or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Please note that the publisher requires you to log in to download the textbooks. Reviews are available.
Includes: Review questions, ancillary materials
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Lifespan Development (OpenStax) [New]
Lifespan Development aligns to the topics and objectives of most introductory developmental psychology courses taught across departments. Grounded in foundational theories and scientific research, the text teaches students about core aspects of human development—physical, cognitive, social, emotional—across the lifespan. A primary goal of the book is to incorporate content, scholarship, and activities that explore a variety of perspectives that encourage all students to feel seen and included.
Includes: key terms, review questions, essay questions, test bank (coming soon), instructor lecture materials (coming soon)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science
Intended to introduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to the foundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences?
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Principles of Social Psychology: 1st International Edition
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.
Includes: Index, glossary, and exercises
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Psychological Adjustment
This textbook for Psychological Development was created by Dr. Tori Kearns and Dr. Deborah Lee. Topics covered include: Theories of Humanistic and Personality Psychology; Coping and Mental Illness; Interpersonal Communication; Sexuality; Understanding Gender; Work and Choosing a Career; Coping with Death and Loss; and Finding Meaning.
Includes: Learning objectives, reflection questions
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Psychology, 2nd Edition (OpenStax)
This textbook covers all of the standard first-year psychology concepts. As an OpenStax textbook it includes many student and instructor resources.
Includes: Applications, instructor resources, student resources, animations and simulations, critical thinking and reflection exercises, test bank
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Psychology of Language [New]
This course will provide students with the fundamentals of linguistic and psycholinguistic theory. Students will explore the nature of language and learn about the basic components studied by psycholinguists. They will also gain an understanding of language development as well as the biological basis of language. Language processes such as comprehension, reading, and speaking will also be explored, along with the current models of comprehension and production [Description from resource].
Includes: Facilitation plan, lecture slides, discussion topics, student assignments.
Licence: CC BY
Research Methods in Psychology, 4th Edition [New]
A comprehensive textbook for research methods classes. A peer-reviewed inter-institutional project.
This adaptation constitutes the fourth edition of this textbook, and builds upon the second Canadian edition by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada), the second American edition by Dana C. Leighton (Texas A&M University-Texarkana), and the third American edition by Carrie Cuttler (Washington State University) and feedback from several peer reviewers coordinated by the Rebus Community [Description from resource].
Includes: Exercises, key takeaways, glossary
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Research Methods in Psychology: 2nd Canadian Edition
This open textbook introduces students to the fundamental principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher. It connects research being generated in Canada as well as provide an accurate picture of the Canadian context for ethical human research. This textbook is an adaptation of one written by Paul C. Price (California State University, Fresno).
Includes: Exercises, key takeaways, glossary
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the ecampusOntario Open Library
Together: The Science of Social Psychology
This sociology text has been positively-reviewed by peers. It covers introductory concepts in sociology, from the science of social phycology to organizational behaviour.
Includes: Instructor resources, vocabulary, discussion questions
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Beginning with the basics of information processing, Dawson explores what experimental psychologists infer about these processes, and considers what scientific explanations are required when we assume cognition is rule-governed symbol manipulation. From these foundations, psychologists can identify the architecture of cognition and better understand its role in debates about its true nature.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
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