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Lecture 100 of 160Emotion & Motivation1 h 1 min
Brain Basis of Emotions
Prof. John D. E. Gabrieli · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Prof. John D. E. Gabrieli. Introduction to Psychology. Fall 2011. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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All the lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Goals of the Course
- How Our Minds Make Our Worlds: Vision, Memory, Attention
- How Our Minds Make our Worlds: Hearing, Learning, Memory
- The Power and Peril of Automaticity
- How We Feel vs. How We Act
- Lecture 2: Science and Research
- Psychology and Science
- What Makes Something an Experiment?
- Psychology Experiments and the Real World
- Little Things Can Influence Behavior
- Folk Psychology and Scientific Psychology
- Lecture 3: Brain I
- The Mind is What the Brain Does
- Brain Overview: Historical Viewpoints, Neurons, Gross Anatomy
- Localization of Mental Functions
- Hemispheric Specialization
- Lecture 4: Brain II
- Methods of Studying the Human Brain
- Lesion (Injury) and Stimulation Studies
- Recording Studies of Structure: CT, MR, DTI
- Recording Studies of Function: Electrical (EEG, MEG) & Metabolic (PET, fMRI)
- Sample Studies: Social Cognition (Empathy) & Vegetative States
- Lecture 5: Vision I
- Introduction to Vision and the Brain
- Vision as Interpretation
- Brightness Constancy and Other Illusions
- The Mechanics of Vision: Pre-Visual Cortex
- The Mechanics of Vision: Visual Cortex
- What and Where Systems
- Brain Lesions and the Visual System
- Lecture 6: Vision II
- Introduction to Recognition
- Problems With Object Recognition
- Recognizing Faces and Prosopagnosia
- The Development of Facial Recognition
- Word Recognition and Alexia
- Predisposition to Facial Recognition
- Race and Facial Recognition
- Recognizing Fear
- Lecture 8: Consciousness
- Causes and Description of Blindsight
- Perception in Blindsight Patients
- Attention and Neglect; Measures of Neglect
- Causes and Extent of Neglect
- Attention and Extinction to Certain Stimulation
- What Information From the Neglected Field can be Processed?
- Lecture 7: Attention
- What Do We Mean by "Attention"?
- Demonstrations of the Limits of Attention
- Hypnosis and the Stroop Effect
- Visual Search and Attentional Blink
- Object Tracking and Improving Attention
- Subliminal Perception
- Object Tracking 1
- Object Tracking 2
- Object Tracking 3
- Inside NOVA: Change Blindness
- Lecture 10: Memory I
- Short Term Memory
- Long Term or Secondary Memory
- Proactive and Retroactive Interference
- A Mnemonist's Memory
- Flashbulb and Repressed Memories
- Lecture 9: Learning
- Pavlov and Learning Through Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning, Thorndike's cat, and Little Albert
- Reinforcement and Learned Helplessness
- Limits of Conditioning
- Reward Value and Delayed Gratification
- Is Language Learning a Conditioned Skill?
- Lecture 11: Memory II: Amnesia and Memory Systems
- The Importance of Memory
- Anterograde Amnesia: Patient H.M. and the Role of the Hippocampus in Memory Formation
- Types of Memory and Q&A about Patient H.M.
- Retrograde Amnesia
- Neural Memory Systems and the Effect of Huntington's and Alzheimer's Diseases on Memory
- Lecture 12: Language
- Language Basics: Sounds We Hear and Distinguish
- From Sound to Meaning: Syntax, Semantics, and Comprehension
- Problems with Language: Aphasia and the Neural Basis of Speech
- Language Acquisition: Infants, Bilingualism, and the Case of Genie
- The McGurk effect
- Lecture 13: Thinking
- Thinking Traps: Functional Fixedness, Problem Solving, and Creativity
- Judgement and Decision Making: Heuristics
- Influencing Decisions: Anchoring, Adjustment, and Framing
- Frontal Lobes and Thinking
- Lecture 14: Intelligence
- What is Intelligence?
- IQ Tests: Validity and Value
- Models of Intelligence and Underlying Neural Mechanisms
- Contributions from Nature and Nurture
- Racism, Acheivement Gaps, and the Stereotype Threat
- Interventions, Effort and Practice: Does Head Start Help?
- Lecture 15: Emotion & Motivation
- Studying Emotion: History and Overview
- Peripheral Bodily Events Influencing Emotion
- Universality of Emotions
- Brain Basis of Emotions
- Brain Imaging, Gender Differences, and Emotion
- Lecture 16: Personality
- Personality and How It's Tested
- Measures of Personality
- Origins of Personality
- Brain Correlates of Personality
- Lecture 17: Child Development
- Introduction and Neotony
- How Babies Learn
- Piaget and the Sensorimotor Stage
- Piaget and the Preoperational Stage
- Theory of Mind
- Babies and Mathematicians
- Lecture 18: Adult Development
- Stages of Development
- Neurogenesis
- Brain Development: Cell Migration, Synaptic Formation, and Myelination
- "Good Memories of Bad Events in Infancy"
- How Development is Studied
- Cognitive Loss
- Attitudes, Emotions, and Aging
- Dopamine and Reward Systems
- The Creation of (False) Memories
- Risk Assessment and Loss Aversion
- Lecture 19: Stress
- Concepts of Stress
- Physical Stress Mechanism and Its Effects
- Psychological Modifiers of the Stress Response
- Embodied Cognition
- Stereotypes and Stress
- Lecture 20: Psychopathology I
- Modern and Historical Viewpoints on Psychopathology
- What is a Mental Disorder?
- How are Mental Disorders Diagnosed?
- Description of Schizophrenia and Genetic Factors
- Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Lecture 21: Psychopathology II
- Treatment Approaches: Behavioral and Medical
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Depression: Diagnosis and Neural Basis
- Depression: Treatments and Studies
- ADHD: Diagnosis
- ADHD: Treatments and Studies
- Lecture 22: Social Psychology I
- What is Social Psychology?
- Fundamental Attribution Error and Cognitive Busyness
- Pfc. England
- Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
- Milgram Obedience Study and Stanford Prison Experiment
- Bystanders and Helping: The Bystander Effect
- Lecture 23: Social Psychology II
- Self-serving Attributional Bias
- False Consensus and the Influence of Social Norms on Behavior
- Cognitive Dissonance
- First Impressions: How Powerful, How Accurate?
- Cultural Psychology
- Lecture 24: Conclusions
- Evolutionary Psychology: Views on Sexuality and Race
- Happiness: Can It Be Measured and Studied?
- Predicting Happiness: Affective Forecasting, the Paradox of Choice