Your reading will consist of contemporary research studies. In this course, psychology will be treated as an empirical science. In contrast to the usual textbook-based course, this course will include considerable coverage of the way in which new information is discovered. In this way you will develop an understanding of research methods and their outcomes. Such textbooks do not give you the tools that you need in order to evaluate information about behavior.
Textbooks often focus on examples of outcomes of psychological studies.
In doing so, the excitement and adventure of psychological investigation is lost.