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Introduction to Psychology

Prof. Jeremy Wolfe · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, evolutionary, cognitive, and psychoanalytic. One of the best aspects of Psychology is that you are the subject matter. This makes it possible to do many demonstrations in lecture that allow you to experience the topic under study. Lectures work in tandem with the textbook. The course breaks into small recitations sections to allow discussion, oral presentations, and individual contact with instructors.

Lectures

Audio Lectures and Notes

  1. 1. The Brain: Between the Ears, Behind the Eyes (audio only) Video
  2. 2. Motivation and Emotion: "Reason Alone Cannot Move Us To Do Anything" (audio only) Video
  3. 3. Learning: The Power of Association (audio only) Video
  4. 4. Sensing: Gathering the Information (audio only) Video
  5. 5. Attending: Limiting the Information (audio only) Video
  6. 6. Perceiving: Interpreting the Information (audio only) Video
  7. 7. Memory: What Do You Remember? (audio only) Video
  8. 8. Cognition: How Do You Think? (audio only) Video
  9. 9. Cognitive Development: How Do Children Think? (audio only) Video
  10. 11. Language Development: What Do Children Say? (audio only) Video
  11. Midterm Review (audio only) Video
  12. 12. Intelligence: How Do We Know You Are Smart? (audio only) Video
  13. 13. The Battle of the Sexes: Love and Evolution (audio only) Video
  14. 14. Social Exchange: Romantic Economics (audio only) Video
  15. 15. Attitudes and Behaviors: How Can We Be Controlled? (audio only) Video
  16. 16. Who Are you? The Psychology of the Self (audio only) Video
  17. 17. From Dissociation To Repression (audio only) Video
  18. 18. Freud and Fairy Tales (audio only) Video
  19. 19. Sleep and Dreams (audio only) Video
  20. 20. Defining Mental Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane? (audio only) Video
  21. 21. Causing Mental Illness: What Can Make You "Lose" Your Mind? (audio only) Video
  22. 22. Successful Disasters: Eating Disorders (audio only) Video
  23. 23. Successful Disasters: Date Rape (audio only) Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Jeremy Wolfe
Term
Fall 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Society and politics
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Jeremy Wolfe. Introduction to Psychology. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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