Three good things journal
Keep the three good things exercise for three weeks and measure its effect with a validated scale.
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Humanities, social sciences & education · 70Beginner
Discovering Psychology
Curious minds or future psychology students.
Positive psychology and well-being, cognitive psychology, emotions and decision-making, then mental disorders and behaviour change.
150hours of coursework
15weeks at 10 h
3steps
12courses
3universities
Target skills
Mental Health Diseases and DisordersExperimentationGoal SettingPsychologyCreativityMindfulnessMeditation & BreathworkComposureResearch and DesignAdaptabilityStress ManagementResilience
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Psychology student
- Research assistant
- Prevention officer
Progression
- 1University of PennsylvaniaBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science Beginner 17 h 4.9 (6,426) Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions Beginner 13 h 4.8 (2,267) Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods Beginner 12 h 4.4 (1,245) Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills Beginner 14 h 4.9 (2,369) Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being — 6 h 4.8 (939) - 2University of CambridgeBeginner
Stated prerequisites: Interest in psychology
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Introduction to Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology — 9 h 4.5 (118) The neuropsychology of decision making Beginner 7 h 4.3 (43) The Psychology of Emotions: an introduction to embodied cognition Beginner 11 h 4.6 (32) Learning and memory in the brain: a guide for teachers Beginner 22 h 4.9 (42) - 3Wesleyan UniversityBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Introduction to Abnormal Psychology Beginner 14 h 4.9 (515) History of Mental Illness Beginner 15 h 4.6 (155) Creating Behavioral Change Beginner 10 h 4.8 (205)
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Projects to build
Decision biases
Design a short questionnaire that reveals a cognitive bias and test it on ten people.
Disorder fact sheet
Write a public fact sheet on a mental disorder: symptoms, prevalence and validated treatments.
Free textbooks
Psychology 2eOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
Research Methods in Psychology, 4th ed.R. S. Jhangiani, I. A. Chiang, C. Cuttler, D. C. LeightonFree, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0