Basic Psychology University Approved Certificate Course

Explore how fear and anxiety differ, their infancy causes, and separation-related phobias, then learn conscious and unconscious coping strategies, including defense mechanisms, self-hypnosis, breathing, and progressive relaxation.

Apply the contraction and relaxation technique with focused breathing to tense and release facial, neck, shoulder, and limb muscles, practicing 15–20 minutes daily for deeper rest and reduced fear.

Explore how fear affects focus, concentration, and daily behavior, with strategies to analyze triggers, apply short- and long-term solutions, and manage social anxiety.

Explore cognitive distortions in social anxiety, identify anxious thoughts, challenge them, reduce safety behaviors, and practice deep muscle relaxation to ease physical symptoms in social settings.

Explore relaxation and breathing techniques to ease muscle tension and anxiety, learn to face feared situations gradually, and analyze thoughts to reduce avoidance behaviors.

Explore how smiling boosts mood and social connection, while walking and mental exercises support health. Adopt practical habits: fitness, stretching, hydrating, calcium intake, and volunteering to enhance well-being and longevity.

Explore stress management, sleep optimization, and seeking support from doctors and support groups, while prioritizing exercise, nutrition, hydration, and regular medical screenings.

Identify exhaustion symptoms like headaches, tiredness, and decreased libido, and seek support from professionals or the EAP to balance work, health, and personal life.

Explore how physical touch and affection strengthen relationships, recognize signs of alcohol and drug problems, manage anger, and build life through family meals, physical activity, spirituality, and turning off phone.

Explore practical strategies to support mental well-being through stress relief, physical activity, sleep hygiene, anger management, and seeking help when needed.

Step out of your comfort zone to pursue healthy goals with a life coach who guides personal and business growth, while memories with loved ones beat money any day.

Explore lifespan development in children and adolescents, including Erickson’s stages, social scaffolding, and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological influences on health care, education, and culturally informed pain assessment.

Explore lifespan development from birth to adolescence, comparing reductionist, mediation, and contextual theories, and tracing Piaget's stages alongside social-cultural theory and the zone of proximal development.

Explore the main milestones of adulthood, including partnership, family, parenting, and retirement, and examine diverse kinship patterns, marriage forms, parenting styles, divorce, adoption, and the health implications across cultures.

Explore how psychology integrates biomedical, psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic paradigms to explain human behavior, with an eclectic approach guiding theory and practice.

Explore strategies for health and well-being, including smoking cessation tips, talking with children about tobacco risks, mindfulness and breathing exercises, nurturing relationships, and positive self-talk.

Explore handwriting analysis to read emotional control, energy, and concentration through slope, baseline, and zone patterns, using a two-step method for personal and professional profiles.

The lecture analyzes handwriting features—letter spacing, spacing between words, letter size, and overall writing style—to infer emotional stress, self-confidence, and social tendencies, and connects these cues to behavior.

Explore psychology's branches, from educational and developmental psychology to learning and maturation across life. Examine major approaches—introspection, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanism—and factors like inheritance, environment, parenting style, and readiness.

Explore how physical growth, puberty, and cognitive development shape behavior from infancy through adolescence, including memory models, language, personality, and moral development.

Explore the working memory model, including attention, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and central executive, and examine how short-term and long-term memory interact in learning and memory disorders.

Examine the diverse memory systems, including short-term, semantic, and long-term explicit memory, and analyze how encoding, attention, and recall shape memory performance across stages.

Explore how memory strategies and cognitive monitoring shape learning, highlighting cognitive strategies, memory processes, attention, self-control, commitment, attitude, planning, evaluation, organizing, and metacognition.

Explore how psychology informs daily happiness, how to communicate scientific findings clearly, and how applying psychological insights can improve personal well-being and community life.

Plant evolution unfolds from early vascular plants to the rise of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, linking crop diversity and cultivation to human nutrition, psychology, and economic life.

Explore how plant diversity, vascular plants, and agriculture influenced nutrition, economy, and human psychology, highlighting the links between crops, food production, and welfare.

Trace the history of medical herbs and their use for psychological healing from ancient civilizations through the ottoman era, exploring herbal preparations, hospitals, and notable physicians.

Explore how plants and healing stones are used in traditional psychology and Asian healing practices, examining minerals, chakras, energy transfer, and their role in wellness.

Explore how environmental psychology shapes the cultivation and pharmacological study of medicinal herbs, highlighting sustainable farming, plant growth under natural conditions, and land policy considerations.

Explore how environmental psychology and environmental physiology shape plant growth and germination under factors like temperature, light, water, and climate change, informing agricultural science.

Examine how humidity, temperature, light, and environmental stress shape plant growth and crop productivity, and how growth regulators and hormones modulate these responses.

Explore how soil type and mineral nutrients shape growth of medicinal plants, and study traditional Indian crops, their pharmacological uses, antibacterial effects, and pain-relief properties.

Explore medicinal and ornamental plants, focusing on alkaloids, roots, fruits, and leaves, and traditional Indian uses for digestion, worms, tuberculosis, and other health applications.

Explore Himalayan medicinal plants from the described family, used as calming medicines to treat heart palpitations, menstrual fluctuations, digestive issues, and inflammatory diseases.

Explore tropical plants with diverse descriptions, habitats, and traditional uses, highlighting antimicrobial and antiviral properties, decorative cultivation, and ecological roles across coastal forests and islands.

Explore traditional medicinal plants, their leaves and roots, and their anti inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, and muscle relaxant effects, along with historic uses for fever, pain, brain swelling, and fertility.

Explore anxiety-related disorders—from generalized anxiety, panic, and phobias to OCD, PTSD, and somatic symptom disorders—along with cognitive behavioral techniques and pharmacologic treatments.

Explore amnesia, fugue, depersonalization, and dissociative identity disorder, including memory loss from trauma, identity disturbances, and related cognitive disorders.

Explore Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, its risk factors (age, education, sex), progression through early to severe stages, and hallmark plaques causing memory loss and visual disturbances.

Explore schizoid personality disorder and related disorders, detailing detachment from social relations, restricted emotional exploration, and patterns such as antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic traits.

Examine anxious, dependent and perfectionist traits, including fear of rejection, clingy behavior, and self-criticism, and apply cognitive restructuring techniques such as reframing to improve coping.

Explore the rise of positive psychology, its link to humanistic psychology, and how science measures well-being, happiness, and meaning.