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Lecture Supplements for Psychology 1

"General Psychology"

John F. Kihlstrom, Professor

University of California, Berkeley


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These supplements include material derived from the lectures, as well as additional material that might be included in an expanded version of the course.  Taken together, they constitute a somewhat selective introduction to psychology, an alternative textbook written from my (perhaps somewhat idiosyncratic) point of view.


Notes:

This website is a work-in-progress, updated continually.  Comments toward improvement are, of course, always welcome. In particular, please report any broken links to jfkihlstrom@berkeley.edu.

For anyone who might want to reference this material in a publication, the proper citation is:

Kihlstrom, J. F. (2017). General Psychology (Course Website)  Retrieved June 16, 2022, from https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/IntroductionWeb/index.htm.

The date, 2017, refers to the last year I actually taught the course before I retired.  The dates on which individual pages ("Introduction", "Sensation", etc.) were revised are indicated at the end of each page.

When I first taught this course, the required text was Psychology (Norton, 1980) by Henry Gleitman, who had been one of my teachers in graduate school.  Gleitman's text, which was universally acknowledged as the best introductory text since Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology (1953), if not James's Principles of Psychology (1890).  Gleitman's text went through many editions, and when Gleitman died and Norton discontinued publication, I switched to Psychology by James Kalat, who had also been a student of Gleitman's. 

Link to the Instructor's Manual created for the online version of this course, prepared for use by campuses throughout the UC system.

Link to videos of the lectures (and slides) from the Fall 2007 offering of the course. 



This page last revised 08/08/2023.