This free course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by asking and answering everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using different research tools and approaches.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Why don’t we like one another?
- 1 Why don’t we like one another?
- 1.1 Explicit and implicit prejudice
- 1.2 Potential limitations of self-report measures of prejudice
- 1.3 Tackling social desirability
- 1.4 The activation of racial attitudes
- 1.5 Interpreting the findings
- 2 Why would I hang around with you?
- 2 Why would I hang around with you?
- 2.1 Enduring love?
- 3 Do you see what I see?
- 3 Do you see what I see?
- 3.1 What do visual illusions tell us about how we process information?
- 3.2 Adelson’s checkerboard illusion
- 3.3 Rotating snakes illusion
- 3.4 Spiral after-effect illusion
- 3.5 What does this tell us about perception?
- 4 What’s the point of childhood?
- 4 What’s the point of childhood?
- 4.1 Becoming social: how children learn to read others’ minds
- 4.2 Studying ToM in young children
- 4.3 Alternative ToM tasks
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
