# Introduction to Psychology

- Institution: Yale University
- Department: Psychology
- Teacher: Paul Bloom
- Term: Spring 2007
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/introduction-psychology/psyc-110)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://oyc.yale.edu/introduction-psychology/psyc-110#syllabus)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/946a6e0c2f18) (Audio)
2. [Foundations: This Is Your Brain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/acc925e78f0e) (Audio)
3. [Foundations: Freud](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/04a6dd72fd46) (Audio)
4. [Foundations: Skinner](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/0efdc91f9576) (Audio)
5. [What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/17757eba3850) (Audio)
6. [How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/fcaedcd88d32) (Audio)
7. [Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/7da43263a0fa) (Audio)
8. [Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/7cc1f76f1a81) (Audio)
9. [Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/7e0cbc3378dd) (Audio)
10. [Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/caf419030f64) (Audio)
11. [Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/0b70e9986bcd) (Audio)
12. [Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/87556bf7be21) (Audio)
13. [Why Are People Different?: Differences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/f9c235949024) (Audio)
14. [What Motivates Us: Sex](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/4154ca1ef411) (Audio)
15. [A Person in the World of People: Morality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/1396c6e2892c) (Audio)
16. [A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/799820d9050f) (Audio)
17. [A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/687623e29dd0) (Audio)
18. [What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/9686f20355ac) (Audio)
19. [What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/0665f70b40b7) (Audio)
20. [The Good Life: Happiness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/psyc-110/e9d70c64e290) (Audio)