Get a complete overview of the exciting field of psychology in this comprehensive course that explains the fascinating debates over the continuing mysteries of the mind.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Defining the Subject
- 02: Ancient Foundations-Greek Philosophers and Physicians
- 03: Minds Possessed-Witchery and the Search for Explanations
- 04: The Emergence of Modern Science-Locke's "Newtonian" Theory of Mind
- 05: Three Enduring "Isms"-Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism
- 06: Sensation and Perception
- 07: The Visual Process
- 08: Hearing
- 09: Signal-Detection Theory
- 10: Perceptual Constancies and Illusions
- 11: Learning and Memory: Associationism-Aristotle to Ebbinghaus
- 12: Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex
- 13: Watson and American Behaviorism
- 14: B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism
- 15: B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society
- 16: Language
- 17: The Integration of Experience
- 18: Perception and Attention
- 19: Cognitive "Maps," "Insight," and Animal Minds
- 20: Memory Revisited-Mnemonics and Context
- 21: Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development
- 22: The Development of Moral Reasoning
- 23: Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding
- 24: Comprehanding the World of Experience-Cognition Summarized
- 25: Psychobiology-Nineteenth-Century Foundations
- 26: Language and the Brain
- 27: Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function
- 28: The "Emotional" Brain-The Limbic System
- 29: Violence and the Brain
- 30: Psychopathology-The Medical Model
- 31: Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution
- 32: Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"?
- 33: What Makes an Event "Social"?
- 34: Socialization-Darwin and the "Natural History" Method
- 35: Freud's Debt to Darwin
- 36: Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression
- 37: Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development
- 38: Critiques of Freudian Theory
- 39: What Is "Personality"?
- 40: Obedience and Conformity
- 41: Altruism
- 42: Prejudice and Self-Deception
- 43: On Being Sane in Insane Places
- 44: Intelligence
- 45: Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment
- 46: Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve"
- 47: Psychological and Biological Determinism
- 48: Civic Development-Psychology, the Person, and the Polis
Taught by
Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.
