
Lecture Description
In this lecture, I bring the 2017 Introduction to Personality and its Transformations to its close, talking about the psychology of belief, describing the reality and potential of the individual. Human beings are information foragers, evolved to live on the border between explored and unexplored territory, order and chaos and, symbolically, ying and yang. That's where information flow is maximized, and the meaning that helps buttress us against tragedy is to be found.
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Course Index
- 01. Introduction: Personality from Multiple Angles
- 02/03. Historical & Mythological Context
- 04/05. Heroic and Shamanic Initiations
- 06. Jean Piaget & Constructivism
- 07. Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 1)
- 08. Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 2)
- 09. Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious
- 10. Humanism & Phenomenology: Carl Rogers
- 11. Existentialism: Nietzsche Dostoevsky & Kierkegaard
- 12. Phenomenology: Heidegger, Binswanger, Boss
- 13. Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
- 14. Introduction to Traits/Psychometrics/The Big 5
- 15. Biology/Traits: The Limbic System
- 16. Biology/Traits: Incentive Reward/Neuroticism
- 17. Biology and Traits: Agreeableness
- 18. Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
- 19. Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity II
- 20. Biology & Traits: Orderliness/Disgust/Conscientiousness
- 21. Biology & Traits: Performance Prediction
- 22. Conclusion: Psychology and Belief
Course Description
Psychology 230H is a course that concentrates to a large degree on philosophical and neuroscientific issues, related to personality. It is divided into five primary topics, following an introduction and overview. The first half of the course deals with classic, clinical issues of personality; the second, with biological and psychometric issues. Students who are interested in clinical psychology, moral development, functional neurobiology and psychometric theory should adapt well to the class. An intrinsic interest in philosophical issues is a necessity.