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- Creative Development in Young Child (HD131)
- Creative Development in Young Children (HD131) is an early childhood education course exploring how children's creative and artistic abilities grow. It teaches educators how to nurture divergent thinking, support symbolic representation in art, and design environments that encourage imaginative play and sensory exploration.
- Front Matter
- 1: Creativity and Creative Thinking
- 2: General Development in Children
- 3: Artistic Development
- 4: Providing Creative Experiences
- 5: Music and Movement, Gathering and Singing
- 6: The Art of Play
- 7: Sensory Experiences
- 8: Integrating Art Across the Curriculum
- 9: Talking With Children About Artistic Media
- 10: Fostering Aesthetic Appreciation
- 11: Teaching Styles That Support Lateral Thinking
- 12: The Therapeutic Value of Art
- 13: Research and Citations
- 14: Image Credits
- Back Matter
- Developmental Psychology Childhood-Adolescence (IVC Psyc/HD 7)
- This course presents a study of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial processes of human development from conception through adolescence. It introduces the theories, research, and applications that constitute the field of child development both typical and atypical, examining both traditional approaches and recent innovations. Topics address the physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social areas of development.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Child Development
- 2: Conception, Heredity, and Prenatal Development
- 3: Birth and the Newborn
- 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
- 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
- 6: Social and Emotional Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
- 7: Physical Development in Early Childhood
- 8: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
- 9: Social Emotional Development in Early Childhood
- 10: Middle Childhood - Physical Development
- 11: Middle Childhood - Cognitive Development
- 12: Middle Childhood - Social Emotional Development
- 13: Adolescence - Physical Development
- 14: Adolescence - Cognitive Development
- 15: Adolescence - Social Emotional Development
- 16: Ancillary Materials
- Back Matter
- Hd 150 Health, Safety, and Nutrition of Children
- This is a picture of young students gathered around a table engaged in developmentally appropriate activities for early learners
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Interrelationships Between Health, Safety, and Nutrition for Children Birth Through Middle Childhood
- 3: Laws, Codes, Regulations, and Policies
- 4: Safety Management
- 5: Health Management
- 6: Teacher and Caregivers Roles
- 7: Meals and Snacks
- 8: Planning Learning Experiences in Health, Safety, and Nutrition
- Back Matter
- Introduction to Psychology (Cassens)
- Introduction to Psychology textbook for a 3 unit CalGETC Psychology class (PSYC C1000). This remix reorganizes the OpenStax Psychology textbook into a sequence that more closely follows the historical development of psychological thought.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Psychology
- 2: Psychological Research
- 3: Freud and Psychodynamic Perspective
- 4: Learning
- 5: Emotion and Motivation
- 6: Memory
- 7: Thinking and Intelligence
- 8: Personality
- 9: Social Psychology
- 10: Biopsychology
- 11: Sensation and Perception
- 12: States of Consciousness
- 13: Lifespan Development
- 14: Psychological Disorders
- 15: Therapy and Treatment
- 16: Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- 17: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
- Back Matter
- Physiological Psychology Lab Manual
- This Biopsychology Laboratory Manual explores the biological foundations of behavior through simulations and hands-on activities. Students investigate neural communication, sensation, attention, emotion, and physiological regulation while practicing EEG, EMG, biofeedback, data analysis, and experimental design. Designed for online learning, this open educational resource develops skills in observation, measurement, and interpretation while connecting psychology to nervous system function.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Laboratory Psychology and Sensory Systems
- 2: Microscopy and Nervous Tissue
- 3: Neurons and Neural Communication
- 4: Neuroanatomy and the Cranial Nerves
- 5: Sensory Processing and Reaction Time
- 6: Attention and Cognitive Interference
- 7: Spatial Attention and Attentional Cueing
- 8: Working Memory and Executive Functioning
- 9: Emotion and Physiological Arousal
- 10: Skin Temperature & Autonomic Regulation
- 11: Facial Expressions and Electromyography
- 12: EEG and Brain States
- 13: Biofeedback and Physiological Self-Regulation
- 14: Designing a Biopsychology Experiment
- Back Matter
- Psych 3: Physiological Psychology (Uchida)
- Physiological Psychology (PSYC 3) at Irvine Valley College (IVC) is a 3-unit transferable course exploring the biological foundations of human behavior, neuroanatomy, and cognition. This text covers the structure and function of the nervous system, sensory/motor systems, motivation, biological rhythms, emotion, cognition, and the impact of drugs or disorders on brain health.
- Front Matter
- 1: Foundations and History of Physiological Psychology
- 2: Anatomy of the Nervous System
- 3: Neural Conduction, Synapses, and Neurotransmitters
- 4: Research Methods in Physiological Psychology
- 5: Psychopharmacology
- 6: Sensation and Perception
- 7: Sensorimotor Systems
- 8: Development of the Nervous System
- 9: Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
- 10: Brain Damage and Neurological Disorders
- 11: Learning and Memory
- 12: Hunger, Eating, and Homeostasis
- 13: The Neuroendocrine System, Sex, and Sexual Behavior
- 14: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
- 15: Lateralization, Language, and the Brain
- 16: Emotion and Stress
- 17: Psychiatric Disorders
- Back Matter
- Research Methods at IVC (Psychology 2)
- This book was created for IVC's Psychology Department for Research Methods 6 units taught in 16 weeks, 8 weeks in the summer and is in alignment with IVC Course Outline of Record and meets curriculum standards.
- Front Matter
- 1: The Science of Psychology
- 2: Overview of the Scientific Method
- 3: Research Ethics
- 4: Psychological Measurement
- 5: Experimental Research
- 6: Non-Experimental Research
- 7: Survey Research
- 8: Quasi-Experimental Research
- 9: Factorial Designs
- 10: Single-Subject Research
- 11: Descriptive Statistics
- 12: Inferential Statistics
- 13: Presenting Your Research
- Back Matter
- Socialization of the Child: Child, Family, and Community
- Front Matter
- 1: Theories That Help Us Understand Families
- 2: What Is A Family?
- 3: A Closer Look at Parenting
- 4: Theories that Inform Practice
- 5: What is Culture
- 6: Community as a Socializing Agent
- 7: School as a Socializing Agent
- 8: Welcoming and Supporting Families
- 9: Contemporary Issues for Children and Families
- Back Matter
- Statistical Methods in the Behavioral Sciences with JASP (Psych 10 at IVC)
- Designed for a 16-week introductory statistics course in psychology and the behavioral sciences, this textbook integrates JASP, free and open-source statistical software, for hands-on data analysis, statistical testing, and interpretation of results. Developed for Irvine Valley College's PSYC 10: Statistical Methods in the Behavioral Sciences (C-ID SOCI 125), this resource supports students in applying descriptive and inferential statistics to behavioral science research.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Statistics
- 2: Research Design and Measurement
- 3: Getting Started with JASP
- 4: Descriptive Statistics
- 5: Visualizing Data
- 6: Probability and Distributions
- 7: Sampling and Estimation
- 8: Hypothesis Testing
- 9: Chi-Square Tests
- 10: Comparing Means - z-Tests and t-Tests
- 11: Correlation and Linear Regression
- 12: One-Way ANOVA
- 13: Factorial ANOVA - Main Effects and Interactions
- Back Matter
- Study Skills for College Students (IVC COUN 10)
- Study skills for Irvine Valley College students, remixed from LibreTexts books and curated by Vanessa Marquez
- The Psychology of Learning
- This textbook is for a 3 unit psychology of learning for credit class at IVC. It is part of a Psychology ADT.
- Front Matter
- 1: Towards a Theory of Learning
- 2: Research Methods in Learning and Behavior
- 3: Elicited Behaviors and More
- 4: Respondent Conditioning
- 5: Applications of Respondent Conditioning
- 6: Operant Conditioning
- 7: Applications of Operant Conditioning
- 8: Observational Learning
- 9: Complementary, Not Competing
- 10: Complementary Cognitive Processes - Sensation (and Perception)
- 11: Complementary Cognitive Processes - Memory
- 12: Complementary Cognitive Processes – Language
- 13: Complementary Cognitive Processes – Learning Concepts
- 14: Learning How to Learn - Evidence-Backed Study Strategies
- Back Matter

