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Great Experiments in Psychology
Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha · IIT Kharagpur
About
Psychology as a subject interests many but what is popularly known are the common views that humans hold about their race. Over the century, the subject’s endevour to establish itself as a science through various experiments remains unknown to many.The present course attempts to share the most important experiments in the history of Psychology that has helped shape its identity. It aims to aid students’ understanding of how to design experiments with human subjects and assist the student to understand Psychology with a scientific eye.
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Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1: History & Origin of Psychology
- Lecture 2: Establishing Psychology as a Science
- Lecture 3: Establishing Psychology as a Science (Contd.)
- Lecture 4: A New Psychology
- Lecture 5: Structuralism & Beyond
Week 2
- Lecture 6: Herman Ebbinghaus on Memory
- Lecture 7: Reconstruction of an Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interacting between Language and Memory
- Lecture 8: Emotionality and Perceptual Defence
- Lecture 9: Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- Lecture 10: Milgram's Study on Obedience
Week 3
- Lecture 11: Case Studies and Experiments in Clinical and Health Psychology
- Lecture 12: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Lecture 13 : A Case of Multiple Personality
- Lecture 14: The Story of Dibs
- Lecture 15 : On Being Sane in Insane Places
Week 4
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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