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Introduction to Psychology
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Lecture 1: Introduction
“Lecture 1: Introduction” is listed in Introduction to Psychology. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 2: Science and Research
“Lecture 2: Science and Research” is listed in Introduction to Psychology. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 3: Brain I
Introduces neurons and the organisation of the brain through neurological cases, functional specialisation and the relationship between brain activity and mental life.
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Lecture 4: Brain II
Compares lesion, stimulation and recording approaches to studying the human brain, with attention to what each kind of evidence can and cannot show.
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Lecture 5: Vision I
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Lecture 6: Vision II
“Lecture 6: Vision II” is listed in Introduction to Psychology. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 7: Attention
Introduces visual attention, distraction and classic experimental demonstrations including visual search, object tracking and attentional limits.
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Lecture 8: Consciousness
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Lecture 9: Learning
Surveys classical and operant conditioning, their limits, learned helplessness and delayed gratification in MIT’s 2011 introductory psychology course.
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Lecture 10: Memory I
Introduces memory categories, retention and interference through the first memory session in MIT’s introductory psychology course.
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Lecture 11: Memory II: Amnesia and Memory Systems
Uses amnesia and the case of H. M. to introduce distinctions among memory systems and the role of brain evidence in studying them.
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Lecture 12: Language
Connects speech perception and meaning with the brain basis of language, language difficulties and acquisition, including infant and bilingual examples.
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Lecture 13: Thinking
Uses problems and puzzles to examine functional fixedness, heuristics, anchoring and framing, with a brief discussion of frontal-lobe contributions.
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Lecture 14: Intelligence
Examines intelligence tests and models, including test validity, biological and environmental interpretations, and debates about educational interventions.
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Lecture 15: Emotion & Motivation
Introduces ways of defining emotion, including subjective feeling, bodily response, expression, valence and arousal, before considering models and brain mechanisms.
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Lecture 16: Personality
Introduces ways of measuring personality and discusses trait dimensions, temperament, biological contributions and learning in MIT’s 2011 course.
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Lecture 17: Child Development
Introduces infancy and cognitive development through historical stage theories, learning and questions about other minds.
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Lecture 18: Adult Development
Extends developmental psychology into adolescence, adulthood and ageing, including cognitive, emotional and physical change.
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Lecture 19: Stress
Distinguishes acute and chronic stressors and discusses psychological anticipation using an experimental example of waiting for an unpleasant stimulus.
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Lecture 20: Psychopathology I
Introduces the history of psychiatric explanations and treatment, the purposes and consequences of diagnostic labels, and the difficulties of classifying distress.
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Lecture 21: Psychopathology II
Discusses psychological and medication approaches to treatment, the testing of psychotherapy, and the lecture's examples of depression and ADHD.
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Lecture 22: Social Psychology I
“Lecture 22: Social Psychology I” is listed in Introduction to Psychology. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 23: Social Psychology II
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Lecture 24: Conclusions
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