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Introduction to Psychology: 1,356 Free Flashcards

A complete introductory psychology course, built from the 16 chapters of OpenStax Psychology 2e plus standard introductory terminology. It opens with what psychology is and how researchers test ideas (experiments, correlation, statistics), then covers biopsychology, states of consciousness, sensation and perception, learning, thinking and intelligence, and memory. The second half moves through lifespan development, emotion and motivation, personality, social psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, stress and health, psychological disorders, and therapy and treatment. Each chapter starts with a short notes card and then mixes recall, multiple choice, cloze, true or false, and a few sequence and explain cards. Classic studies are dated and described as they were run, and contested findings such as replication problems are flagged rather than taught as settled. The cards are text only, with no diagrams.

1,356cards
16units
95chapters
17sources cited

What's inside

Unit 1 What Psychology Is

4 chapters · 61 cards

Unit 2 Psychological Research

5 chapters · 80 cards

Unit 3 Biopsychology

7 chapters · 108 cards

Unit 4 States of Consciousness

6 chapters · 64 cards

Unit 5 Sensation and Perception

7 chapters · 97 cards

Unit 6 Learning

5 chapters · 84 cards

Unit 7 Thinking and Intelligence

6 chapters · 82 cards

Unit 8 Memory

5 chapters · 87 cards

Unit 9 Lifespan Development

6 chapters · 113 cards

Unit 10 Emotion and Motivation

5 chapters · 83 cards

Unit 11 Personality

6 chapters · 81 cards

Unit 12 Social Psychology

7 chapters · 101 cards

Unit 13 Industrial-Organizational Psychology

4 chapters · 41 cards

Unit 14 Stress, Lifestyle and Health

5 chapters · 61 cards

Unit 15 Psychological Disorders

11 chapters · 127 cards

Unit 16 Therapy and Treatment

6 chapters · 86 cards

Try a few real cards

Copied straight from the course. In the app, each wrong option also gets its own explanation.

Card 1In operant conditioning, what does the word "positive" mean?

  1. A stimulus is added
  2. The outcome is good
  3. A stimulus is removed
  4. The behavior increases
Show answer

A stimulus is added. Positive and negative describe adding or removing a stimulus, not whether the result is pleasant.

Card 2In the 1975 study by Craik and Tulving, which kind of processing of words led to the best recall?

  1. Judging the font (visual)
  2. Judging the rhyme (acoustic)
  3. Counting the letters in each word
  4. Judging the meaning (semantic)
Show answer

Judging the meaning (semantic). Processing meaning is deepest, which supports the levels of processing idea that deeper processing yields better memory.

Card 3Which of these correlations shows the strongest relationship?

  1. -0.80
  2. +0.30
  3. +0.50
  4. 0.00
Show answer

-0.80. Strength is the size of r ignoring its sign. The negative sign only shows that the variables move in opposite directions.

Questions

Is the Introduction to Psychology course really free?

Yes. Create a free Encodr account and all 16 units and 1,356 cards are yours to study, with spaced repetition scheduling your reviews.

Which textbook is it based on?

OpenStax Psychology 2e (all 16 chapters, CC BY-NC-SA) plus standard introductory terminology. The cards are rewritten, not copied.

What does the course cover?

What psychology is, research methods, biopsychology, consciousness, sensation and perception, learning, thinking and intelligence, memory, lifespan development, emotion and motivation, personality, social psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, stress and health, psychological disorders, and therapy.

Does it teach findings that have not replicated?

Contested classics are handled with care: where a finding or its diagnostic status has changed, the card follows the current evidence and the DSM-5-TR rather than the dated textbook version.

Does it include images or diagrams?

No. Cards are text only, so brain regions, the eye and ear, and experiment set-ups are described in words.

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