Contemporary psychology has evolved to study how people think, act and feel. This course will provide an introduction to major areas and topics in psychology, such as learning, memory, intelligence and motivation. The course will present an overview of major theoretical perspectives and research findings in psychology, and give evidence of how psychology works as a scientific process. The course will start with an introduction to the history of psychology and explore how it has developed as a scientific discipline over time. It will continue with an overview of the research methods used by psychologists and describe how scientific psychological studies are designed. It will focus on a set of topics related to various research areas in psychology, including cognitive, developmental, social and health psychology. Some of the topics that will be covered in the course are interactions between genetic and environmental factors in our development, processes of learning and remembering, intelligence and problem solving, theories of personality and motivation, and stress and well-being.