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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 - Foundations: This Is Your Brain
Introduces dualism and materialism as contrasting accounts of mind and body, followed by basic brain neurophysiology.
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Lecture 3 - Foundations: Freud
Paul Bloom introduces Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas, their limitations and the historical role of unconscious mental processes in psychology.
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Lecture 4 - Foundations: Skinner
Introduces Skinner and behaviourism, compares forms of learning and discusses why behaviourism alone is insufficient for the course’s account of mental life.
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Lecture 5 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
Introduces Piaget’s approach and the study of infant cognition, then asks how different kinds of development relate.
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Lecture 6 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
Introduces language through sounds, word structure, sentence structure and recursion, alongside arguments about acquisition and specialisation.
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Lecture 7 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Paul Bloom moves from animal communication and language–thought questions into perception, attention and different kinds of memory.
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Lecture 8 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)
Reviews memory types, limitations, strategies and disorders, then discusses suggestibility and the social interpretation of memory research.
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Lecture 9 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)
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Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
Introduces an evolutionary perspective on psychology and discusses how evolutionary arguments are used to constrain explanations of behaviour and choice.
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Lecture 11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
Presents an evolutionary approach to emotion through examples of smiling, fear, family relationships and infants' responses to caregivers.
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Lecture 12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
Continues an evolutionary interpretation of social emotions, discussing parental love, gratitude, responses to cheating and cultural differences in revenge.
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Lecture 13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences
Surveys personality and intelligence measurement and the course’s discussion of genetic and environmental explanations for differences between people.
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Lecture 14 - What Motivates Us: Sex
Presents a 2007 course discussion of evolutionary explanations and psychological studies concerning attraction, sex, gender differences and sexual orientation.
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Lecture 15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality
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Lecture 16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
Introduces social psychology through connectedness and biases in thinking about oneself and other people.
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Lecture 17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter
Combines a discussion of social impressions and stereotypes with an introduction to sleep, dreams and theories about laughter.
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Lecture 18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema introduces clinical identification and treatment with particular attention to mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder.
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Lecture 19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
Discusses definitions of mental illness and several diagnostic groupings before introducing therapy.
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Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness
Asks how treatment efficacy can be assessed, then turns to happiness, cultural variation and people's predictions about future satisfaction.