Textbook map
Start from OpenStax Psychology 2e (Spielman, Jenkins and Lovett, 2020), then follow a question beyond its introductory treatment.
How to read the connections
Direct means the section discusses the central question or named example. Contextual means it provides background vocabulary. A contextual connection does not claim that the textbook reviews the cited research. The book predates the 2025 consciousness study and is not used as evidence of today’s diagnostic guidance.
- Categories and dimensions
ContextualSection 15.2: Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
- Construct validity
ContextualSection 2.2: Approaches to Research
- Delay of gratification and opportunity
ContextualSection 9.3: Stages of Development
- Ego depletion and self-control
ContextualSection 10.1: Motivation
- Emotion categories
ContextualSection 10.4: Emotion
- Evolutionary explanation
ContextualSection 3.1: Human Genetics
- Free will and neural preparation
ContextualSection 1.2: History of Psychology
- Generalizability beyond the experiment
ContextualSection 2.2: Approaches to Research
- Memory systems and task differences
ContextualSection 8.1: How Memory Functions
- Nature and nurture
- Person and situation
ContextualSection 11.7: Trait Theorists
- Preregistration and exploration
ContextualSection 2.3: Analyzing Findings
- Remembering and reconstructing
- Replication and scientific credibility
ContextualSection 2.2: Approaches to Research
- Sensitive periods in language learning
ContextualSection 7.2: Language
- Stages and continuous development
- Testing consciousness theories
ContextualSection 4.1: What Is Consciousness?
- Universality and culture
ContextualSection 1.3: Contemporary Psychology