Introduction to Psychology
MIT's John Gabrieli built this OCW Scholar edition specifically for independent learners, covering how the brain supports perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, and psychopathology. Each of the roughly twenty sessions, from Brain I and Vision through Intelligence, Stress, and Social Psychology, pairs a lecture video with a free companion textbook chapter, short check-yourself quizzes, discussion notes, and further-study links, and the course includes three full exams with solution keys for self-testing. It frames the material around debates over nature versus nurture, free will, and consciousness rather than treating them as settled. Every material MIT normally reserves for enrolled students, lecture videos, exams, and the open textbook, is posted free with no registration. It is designed to be worked through solo, at whatever pace fits your schedule.