In the first volume of the textbook "Modern Psychology. Theory and methodology: an author's textbook for a master's degree" outlines the most general questions of the science and methodology of psychology, the problems of the subject and methods of psychology, the classification of models, theories and laws of psychology. Due to the fact that more than half of the students studying in the magistracy today do not have basic psychological education, each chapter of the textbook is equipped with a large number of illustrative psychological examples (from 10 to 40) and information notes. At the end of the chapters, in addition to traditional training questions, there are test tasks and exercises.