Topic guide · Development across life / Learning, memory and education / Personality and individual differences
What changes in cognition as we age?
Distinguish kinds of performance and separate age differences from evidence of change.
Topic guide · Personality and individual differences / Development across life / Methods, evidence and reproducibility / Evolution and other minds
How do genes and environment influence behaviour?
Interpret family and twin comparisons, population heritability and developmental experiments without turning them into percentages of a person or claims of inevitable outcomes. This route explains foundational inference, not personal genetic risk or modern genome-wide prediction.
Topic guide · Personality and individual differences / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
How can personality be described without turning traits into types?
Describe traits as dimensions supported by observations, with context and change still visible.
Topic guide · Methods, evidence and reproducibility / Personality and individual differences
How can you tell whether a measure is reliable and valid?
Separate what a score records, how consistently it behaves and which interpretation the evidence supports.
Topic guide · Personality and individual differences / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
What do intelligence test scores measure?
Distinguish a performance, a score, a construct and a causal explanation when reading intelligence claims.
Lectures and explanations
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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.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Source-checked annotation
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 10 - Virtue and Habit II
Continues Aristotle’s account of virtue, discusses pleasure and flow, and introduces a situationist challenge to stable character.
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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.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Source-checked annotation
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 19 : EQ Map (Contd.)
“Lecture 19 : EQ Map (Contd.)” is listed in Emotional Intelligence. 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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Perception - II
“Perception - II” is listed in Human Behaviour. 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 14
“Lecture 14” is listed in Brief 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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Introduction to the Science of Human Behavior - I
“Introduction to the Science of Human Behavior - I” is listed in Human Behaviour. 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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Guidelines and Timelines
“Guidelines and Timelines” is listed in Brief 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-20 What a surprise: My results are nonsignificant
“Lecture-20 What a surprise: My results are nonsignificant” is listed in Selected Topics in 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 36: Neo Freudian and Behaviourist Perspective
“Lecture 36: Neo Freudian and Behaviourist Perspective” 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 | Psychology: Its Etymology
“Lecture 2 | Psychology: Its Etymology” is listed in Introduction to Indian 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 4: Introduction to EI and Related Concepts (Contd.)
“Lecture 4: Introduction to EI and Related Concepts (Contd.)” is listed in Emotional Intelligence. 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 37: Culture and Emotion
“Lecture 37: Culture and Emotion” is listed in Emotional Intelligence. 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-27 The neuroscience of addictive behaviour
“Lecture-27 The neuroscience of addictive behaviour” is listed in Selected Topics in Psychology. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.