Laura Freberg is Professor of Psychology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Freberg received her bachelors, masters, and PhD from UCLA and conducted her dissertation research with Robert Rescorla of Yale University.

At Cal Poly SLO, Freberg teaches courses in Introductory Psychology and Biopsychology. For Argosy University Online (2011-2019), she taught courses in Research Methods, Writing in Psychology, Sensation/Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Psychological Statistics, Advanced General Psychology, Exceptional Children, and Child and Adolescent Development.

With the late John Cacioppo of the University of Chicago, Freberg co-authored Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind (3rd ed.) for Cengage. She authors Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience: An Introduction to Biological Psychology (4th ed.) for Cengage and Research Methods for Psychological Science (1st ed.; released in Fall 2017) for Top Hat.

Freberg serves on the Council of Representatives of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) and as the 2018-2019 WPA President. She is a member of the TopHat Customer Advisory Board.

"I'm Laura Freberg, psychology professor, textbook writer, dog lover, and technophiliac. 

My goal is to make complex topics in psychological science accessible to anyone who wants to learn. Through my teaching and writing, I hope to share my love for psychological science with others.

On a personal note, I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 47 years. We have three daughters and an absolutely perfect grandson. We share our home with a menagerie that includes one very busy Australian shepherd, two kitties, and two parakeets."

 

 

“Just so, in teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.”