psychology lecture index

These lectures review and expand on the material in the textbook. They are organized into fifteen topical areas that correspond closely though not exactly with the topical organization of the textbook.

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Lectures

#1 What is Psychology	#5 Development	#9 Intelligence	#13 Personality
#2 Research Methods	#6 Learning	#10 Consciousness	#14 Social
#3 Biology	#7 Memory	#11 Motivation	#15 Abnormal
#4 Sensation and Perception	#8 Cognition & Language	#12 Emotions

#1 What is Psychology

Free Will versus Determinism

3.	The Mind-Body Problem	6'
4.	Basic Assumptions of Science	8'
5.	The Binding Problem	6'

# 2 Scientific Methods in Psychology
2.1	Critical Thinking Skills	19'
2.2	Research Methodology	24'
2.3	Descriptive Statistics	26'
2.4	Inferential Statistics	15'

# 3 Biological Psychology
1.	Neurons and Glia	23'
2.	Action Potential	9'
3.	Synapse	3'
4.
5.	Divisions of the Nervous System	9'
6.	Brain Anatomy	13'
7.	Effects of Experience on the Brain	10'
8.	Epilepsy	24'
9.	Hemispheric Lateralization	18'
10.	Male-Female Brains and Handedness	13'

# 4 Sensation and Perception
1	Psychophysics, Signal Detection, andSubliminal Perception	13'
2	Touch, Pain, Taste, Smell	14'
2a	Phantom Limb	12'
2b	Synesthesia	9'
3	Pattern Recognition	14'
4	Gestalt Principles and Depth Perception	6'
5	Optical Illusions	3'

# 5 Human Development
1.	Tannen - Male and Felmale Talk	15'
2	Attachment	15'
3	Evolutionary Psychology	42'
4	Dimensions of Gender	24'

# 6 Learning

1.	Introduction to Learning	6'
2.	Pavlov and Classical Condtioning	18'

3.	Operant Conditioning Part 1	19'
4.	Operant Conditioning Part 2	7'

Observational Learning

18'

# 7 Memory
1.	Types of Memory	16'
2.	Retrieval	10'
3.	Forgetting	10'
4.	Imperfect Memory	29'
5.	Biology of Memory and Amnesia	27'
6.	Infant Amnesia and Alzheimer's Disease	19'

# 8 Cognition and Language
1.	Attention	27'
2.	Mental Representation and Categorization	12'
3.	Expertise and Creativity	8'
4.	Cognitive Errors and Behavioral Economics	28'
5.	Psycholinguistics	21'
6.	Language Development	26'

# 9 Inelligence
1.	Types of Tests, Their Reliability, Validity, and Utility	25'
2.	Intelligence Testing	10'
3.	Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Intelligence	18'
4.	Theories of Intelligence	8'

6.	Mental Retardation and the Flynn Effect	5'
7.	Predictive Validity of IQ Tests	9'
8.	Race and IQ Test Bias	16'

# 10 States of Consciousness
1.	Circadian and Biorhythms	12'
2.	Sleep	33'
3.	Sleep Problems	22'
4.	Dreams	11'
5.	Hypnosis	28'
6.	9 Misconceptions	4'

# 11 Motivation
1.1	Views of Motivation	12'
11.2	Physiology of Hunger and Satiety	13'
11.3	Obesity	14'
11.4	Dieting	15'
11.5	Eating Disorders	20'

11.6	Sexual Behavior of Americans	19'

11.8	Prenatal Sexual Development	21'

11.9	Procrastination	5'
11.10	Job Design, Satisfaction, and Leadership	6'

# 12 Emotions, Stress, and Health


1.	Emotions	27'

# 13 Personality
1.	Personality Introduction	6'
2.	The Big Five Traits	4'
3.
4.	Personality Assessment	15'
5.	Psychoanalytic Theory	18'
6.	Neo-Freudians	5'
7.	Defense Mechanisms	6'

# 14 Social Psychology
14.1	First Impressions and Physical Attractiveness	22'
14.2	Attitudes and Cognitive Dissonance	14'
14.3	Attributions	10'
14.4	Stereotypes and Prejudices and Implicit Attitudes	17'
14.6	Obedience to Authority	18'
14.7	Zimbardo: Power of the Situation	25'
14.8	Bystander Effect	26'

# 15 Abnormality Behavior
15.1	Defining Abnormal Behavior	12'
15.2	DSM-IV-TR	12'
15.3	DSM Critics	20'

15.6	Mood Disorders	20'
15.7	Schizophrenia	14'

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