Introduction to Psychology

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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 canâ

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Introduction to Psychology

Professor Paul Bloom
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Video Lectures & Study Materials

# Lecture Play Lecture
1 Introduction (29:37) Play Video
2 Foundations: This Is Your Brain (53:19) Play Video
3 Foundations: Freud (53:31) Play Video
4 Foundations: Skinner (58:47) Play Video
5 What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought (48:58) Play Video
6 How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands (56:31) Play Video
7 Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory (59:43) Play Video
8 Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.) (53:43) Play Video
9 Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey) (1:09:33) Play Video
10 Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality (59:49) Play Video
11 Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I (53:15) Play Video
12 Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II (56:07) Play Video
13 Why Are People Different?: Differences (1:05:50) Play Video
14 What Motivates Us: Sex (52:48) Play Video
15 A Person in the World of People: Morality (1:01:17) Play Video
16 A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I (58:15) Play Video
17 A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughte (1:04:53) Play Video
18 What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Ho (54:27) Play Video
19 What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II (56:48) Play Video
20 The Good Life: Happiness (47:36) Play Video

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