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Introduction to Psychology

Paul Bloom · Yale University

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About

What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.

Lectures

  1. Introduction Lecture 1 · Audio
  2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain Lecture 2 · Audio
  3. Foundations: Freud Lecture 3 · Audio
  4. Foundations: Skinner Lecture 4 · Audio
  5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought Lecture 5 · Audio
  6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands Lecture 6 · Audio
  7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory Lecture 7 · Audio
  8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.) Lecture 8 · Audio
  9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey) Lecture 9 · Audio
  10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality Lecture 10 · Audio
  11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I Lecture 11 · Audio
  12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II Lecture 12 · Audio
  13. Why Are People Different?: Differences Lecture 13 · Audio
  14. What Motivates Us: Sex Lecture 14 · Audio
  15. A Person in the World of People: Morality Lecture 15 · Audio
  16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I Lecture 16 · Audio
  17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter Lecture 17 · Audio
  18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema) Lecture 18 · Audio
  19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II Lecture 19 · Audio
  20. The Good Life: Happiness Lecture 20 · Audio

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Credits and licence

Institution
Yale University
Department
Psychology
Teacher
Paul Bloom
Term
Spring 2007
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain
Source
Open Yale Courses
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, as Open Yale Courses states it. Non-commercial use only. Open Yale Courses's terms
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