This first learning pathway asks learners to create a learning journal blog and introduce themselves to other learners. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Review the Learning journal blog section to learn how to create your learning journal
2. Create and customize your course learning journal
3. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
4. Review the content and activities in the multimedia Orientation Course Presentation
5. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity #IPSY102 #AllowMetoIntroduceMyself
6. Don’t forget to assign your blog URL for the feed scanner (this is needed so that your posts tagged with the course code will be “fetched” and linked from the course feed).
7. Complete the practice Quiz
8. Complete the Learning Challenge: Create and post an organizational graphic that illustrates the different learning pathway components in relation to each other #IPSY102 #MappingPathways

This pathway reviews how genetics and experience both play a role in shaping our mental processes and behaviors. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia Nature, Nurture & (Epi)genetics Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity #IPSY102 #AnalyzingIntelligence
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: Find an peer-reviewed journal article about behavioral genetics and its role in some specific mental process #IPSY102 #BehaviorialGeneticsAnd

This pathway will review how psychologists have applied the theory of evolution to help explain patterns of human and animal behavior. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia Evolutionary Psychology Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity #IPSY102 #SexualSelection
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: Find a popular media article about Ev Psych and propose an alternative based on culture #IPSY102 #EvPsychAlternatives

We will start to explore the exciting world of behaviorism, which attempts to predict, change and control behavior. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia Behaviorism Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity (worksheet)
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: Identifying and analyzing classical conditioning from your own life #IPSY102 #ClassicConnections

This pathway continues to explore behaviorism from the perspective of operant conditioning and observational learning. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia Behaviorism Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect and Engage Activity #IPSY102 #OperatingOthers
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: Evaluate your own opinion about violent media and its role, if any, in violent behavior #IPSY102 #ViolentMedia

In this learning pathway we will examine the basic concepts around sensation and perception, as well as an exploration of the methods used to study them. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia the Sensation, Perception & Psychophysics Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity #IPSY102 #Sensations
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: Create a mind map that illustrates the different schools of thought #IPSY102 #MullerLyer

In this learning pathway we will examine how vision fits into a general model for perception that can be applied to any modality. Please work through the following activities in order:

1. Read through the In this Learning Pathway page
2. Review the content and activities in the multimedia the Perceptual Process for Vision Learning Pathway Presentation
3. Complete the Reflect & Engage Activity #IPSY102 #PerceptionIsLike
4. Review your learning by completing the formative Quiz
5. Complete the Learning Challenge: This is a worksheet that can be shared via #IPSY102 #PerceptualProcessFramework