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NSCC Open Textbooks

A list of Open Textbooks being used at NSCC. Textbook content boxes are created for NSCC Open Textbook and hosted in this guide. The embed code for Textbook Content Boxes is shared so boxes can be added to Brightspace courses.

Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition

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Study Guide

Introduction to Psychology
By Jennifer Walinga & Charles Stangor
CC BY-SA-NC

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Digital copies are free.
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Introduction to Psychology Study Guide
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.

Introduction to Psychology

Introduction to Psychology
Lumen Learning /OpenStax
Digital versions of this textbook are FREE.
Comprehensive coverage of core concepts grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research, including coverage of the DSM-5 in discussions of psychological disorders. Incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

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Principles of Behaviour Analysis and Modification (DSSP 1022)

Principles of Behavior Analysis and Modification
This textbook covers the principles and procedures used in behaviour modification and through them, you can change a behaviour in yourself thanks to a carefully designed self-modification project.

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Psychology 2e OpenStax

Psychology OpenStax
2nd Edition
Psychology 2nd Edition (2e) is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

Digital copies are free.
A print copy can be ordered through the Print on Demand (POD) service.
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Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology
This open textbook is designed to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Developmental Psychology.
This book examine the cultural, social, psychological, and physiological influences which imp[act human development from conception to death.

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Lifespan Development

Lifespan Development
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood.

Digital copies are free.
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