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The nice thing about personality is that everyone has one. You don’t have to buy it, earn it or learn it. You are already you.

Personality is also called personality theories or principles of personality. It is the study of what makes us human. It describes what we do, what we think and how we view ourselves. Some say there are over 50 definitions of personality but I think that’s a major underestimate. Near as I can tell, everyone in psychology has at least one idea about what should be excluded in a definition of personality. And nobody agrees on what should be included. About all everyone agrees on is that there are too many definitions of personality.

BasicPersonality.com is a website with posts about the theories of personality and the people who developed them. There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level course.

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Borobudur is the world’s largest Buddhist temple, and a architectural wonder. It is nestled between two mountains and two rivers.

Built in the 9th century, the temple is a collection of nine platforms stacked on each other, covered by a giant dome. It looks like a pyramid from the side and like a mandala geometric pattern from above. It has 2672 relief panels, and over 500 statues.

Any great structure takes years to make, and many dedicated people. This is true of temples and sciences.  Borobudur stood 75 years to construct (best guess). Psychology has been under construction for 150 years and is still unfinished.

The people who created psychology are “nuts” about psychology. They worked hard at discovering small portions of the truth which lead others to their discoveries. Eventually, a mountain of knowledge about human behavior has been created and a new science emerged.

History & Systems of Psychology is also called the history of psychology. It is the study of how psychology came to be, and of the people who contributed to its development. All areas of psychology are included: abnormal, personality, developmental, learning, perception and neuropsychology.

It is a good summary of everything psychology covers. It includes ideas from every philosophy in the world, every science and every culture. Great ideas come from all over the world. Maybe the world is round to remind us that no one has a corner of wisdom.

PsychNut.com is a website with posts about the people who created psychology . There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level course.

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As long as there have been people, there has been a need to plan, calculate and evaluate our progress. We build the Wall and later we built the Pyramids. But both required a practical application of math.

Statistics is an area of mathematics, a collection of tools for analyzing data, and a way of thinking. As a subset of mathematics, statistics can be the study of multidimensional space, models of chance, or representational structure and change But at its best, statistics is a way of thinking. Statistical thinking is applying logic to life

StatNut.com is a website with posts about central tendency, dispersion, t-tests, ANOVAs and correlations.  There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level course.

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Lifespan Development is also called developmental psychology. As the names suggest, it is trying to understand how people change over time. The course covers the entire human lifespan from fertilization to death. It include questions of when life begins and when life ends. And it looks at every stage in-between.

I created a fictional character called Dave. We track his progress throughout life. I think of Dave as one of Fredrick Remington’s paintings of an adventurer of the Old West. It is the Sage of Dave, a sort of Once Upon A Time approach to lifespan development

DevelopmentalDave.com is a website with posts about genetics, prenatal factors, infants, toddlers and all the rest of us. There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level lifespan course.

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The psychology of learning is also called theories of learning or principles of learning. As the names suggest, it is trying to understand how people learn and remember.

If biological psych is about the hardware, learning is about software. We don’t start out with very much built-in knowledge but we are quick to acquire language and thinking skills

PsychLearning.com is a website with posts about skills, habits, concept development, and behavior control. There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level course in learning theories.

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Biological psychology is also called physiological psychology, neuro-psychology, psychobiology and psychophysiology. As the names suggest, it is trying to understand the biological underpinnings of human behavior.

If people are like computers, biological psych is about the hardware. There are lots of software fixes you can add but this class deals with basic hardware you’re given.

What could be a better icon for biological psych than a woman unaware that she is slowly killing herself in hopes of being fashionable. This is Russell Patterson’s 1920s rendition of Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire. Biological Psych covers many of the stupid things we do to ourselves while trying to be cool.

BiologicalPsych.com is a website with posts about genetics, neurons, drugs, the brain and everything else in the head There is a blog for the general public and more detailed lessons for students taking a university level course.

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