Introduction to Psychology [Repost]

A comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of the human mind. Brains, children, language, sex, memory, madness, disgust, racism, love, etc.

Class Sessions

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