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JCU Online Psychology Textbook List

This page contains textbook information for the Graduate Certificate & Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Bridging).

Code Subject Name Textbook
PY4203 The Psychology of Health Wellbeing and Resilience Morrison, M., Bennett, P., Butow, P., Mullan, B. & Sharpe, L. (2019), Introduction to health psychology in Australia (3rd ed.), Pearson Australia.
PY4204 Human Development Across the Lifespan

Sigelman, C. K., de George, L., Cunial, K., Kohler, M., Ballam, H., & Rider, E. A. (2022). Life span human
development (4th ed). Cengage Learning Australia. ISBN: 9780170293938 

Online copy available here

CodeSubject NameTextbook
PY4201Social Psychology

Kassin, S., Fein, S., Markus, H. R., McBain, K. A., & Williams, L.

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(2019). Social Psychology Australian & New Zealand Edition

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(2nd ed.). Cengage AU.

PY4207Neuroscience and the Biological Basis of BehaviourFreberg, L. (2023). Discovering behavioral neuroscience: An introduction to biological psychology (5th ed.). Cengage Learning.
CodeSubject NameTextbook
PY4208Environmental Psychology and Sustainable FuturesSteg, L. & De Groot, J. I. (2018). Environmental psychology: An introduction. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. DOI:10.1002/9781119241072
PY4202Individual Differences in PersonalityBurger, J.M. (2020) Personality. (10th ed.) Cengage Learning.
CodeSubject NameTextbook
PY4205Psychological Disorders and Interventions

Kring, A.M., Kyrios, M., Fassnacht, D., Lambros, A., Mihaljcic, T., & Teesson, M.

(2018). Abnormal psychology (First Australasian edition.). John Wiley & Sons.

PY4209Principles of CounsellingIvey, A. E., Ivey, M. B., & Zalaquett, C. P. (2018). Intentional interviewing and counselling: Facilitating client development in a multicultural society (9th edn). Cengage Learning.
CodeSubject NameTextbook
PY4210Research and Statistics for PsychologyJhangiani, R. S., Chiang, I-C, A., Cuttler, C., & Leighton, D. C. (2019). Research methods in psychology (4thed.). Kwantlen Polytechnic University. https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/psychmethods4e/ 
PY4206Learning Memory Cognition and LanguageGluck, M. A., Mercado, E., & Myers, C. E. (2020). Learning and memory (4th Ed). New York: Macmillan Learning.

If you do not know which subjects you should be enrolled in, please reach out to your Student Success Advisor.
P: 1300 535 423
E: studentsuccess@online.jcu.edu.au

How to access your readings list:

  1. Visit JCU Online Library (you will need to login with your JCU credentials).
  2. Select the ‘Readings’ tab and then type in the subject code for your next subject.
  3. If there is more than one instance of your subject listed, please look at the ‘Last Updated’ tab and click the most recently updated subject.

Please note that Readings List may not be updated before O-Week of the current Study Period.

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