LibGuides: Free Online Textbooks: Psychology

How to use this guide

Below are Touro Library’s recommended free resources for Psychology courses.

This is just a sampling of the available OER. Contact OER Librarian Kirk Snyder for personalized recommendations.

For other subjects, refer to the menu on the left.

OER for Psychology

NYSCAS Psychology

GPSN 110 General Survey of Psychology	Psychology 2e (OpenStax)

GPSN 201 Developmental Psychology	Lifespan Development (OpenStax)
	Lifespan Development (Lumen)
	Psychology Through the Lifespan (Maricopa)
	Navigating Milestones: A Comprehensive Guide to Developmental Psychology (Steidinger)
	Developmental Psychology (Herkimer)
	Human Growth and Development (Newton)
	Retracing the Steps of Human Ontogeny: Exploring Development from the End to the Beginning (Seitz)
	Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Fourth Edition (Lally)

GPSN 202 Psychological Foundations of Education	Educational Psychology (Seifert and Sutton)

GPSN 204 Child Psychology (formerly GPS 203, Child Growth and Development)	Infant and Child Development: From Conception Through Late Childhood (CUNY)
	The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years (Budzyna and Buckley)
	Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology (Boise)
	Care and Development of Infants and Toddlers (MacKenzie)
	Child and Adolescent Development: A Topical Approach (2e)(Jakobsen)

GPSN 213 Social Psychology	Together: The Science of Social Psychology (noba)
	Principles of Social Psychology (U of MN)

GPSN 216 Adolescent Development	Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology (Boise)

GPSN 221 Industrial Psychology	Workplace Psychology (Powers)
	Psychology of Work (Pelz)

GPSN 225 Psychology of Aging	Always Developing (Baird)
	Successful Aging (Bishop)

GPSN 230 Psychological and Social Aspects of Developmental Disabilities	Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness : What Caregivers Need to Know (Melrose, et al)


GPSN 301 Experimental Psychology with Lab	Research Methods in Psychology (4 ed. Jhangiani)

GPSN 312 Cognition and Memory	Cognitive Psychology
	Essentials of Cognitive Psychology ()

GPSN 315 Motivation and Personality	Theories of Personality
	The Balance of Personality (Allen)

GPSN 317 Human Sexuality	Introduction to Human Sexuality

GPSN 321 Perception	Introduction to Sensation and Perception (U of M)
	Sensation and Perception (CUNY)

GPSN 332 History and Systems of Psychology	Open History of Psychology: The Lives and Contributions of Marginalized Psychology Pioneers
	History of Psychology (Heritage University)

GPSN 335 Abnormal Psychology	Abnormal Psychology
	Understanding Psychological Disorders (Palm)
	Introduction to Psychological Disorders

GPSN 345 Health Psychology	The Psychology of Health and Illness (Ogden)
	The Healthy Life (Noba)
	Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications (Riley, et al)
	Health Psychology (Lumen)

GPSN 351 Biological Psychology	Psychology as a Biological Science (noba)
	Biological Psychology (Hove & Martinez)