Introduction to Psychology

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 can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury

Introduction to Sensation and Perception

Psychology

Research and Data Analysis in Psychology

The course will concentrate on hypothesis formulation and testing, tests of significance, analysis of variance (one-way analysis), simple correlation, simple regression, and nonparametric statistics such as chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests.

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Introduction to Psychology (MITOCW)

The Brain; Motivation and Emotion; Learning; Sensing; Attending; Perceiving; Memory; Cognition; Language; Intelligence; Social Exchange; Attitudes and Behavior; Sleep and Dreams; Mental Illness etc....

General Psychology

Biological Bases of Mind and Behavior; Learning; Sensation and Perception; Attention and Memory; Thought and Language; Personality and Social Interaction etc....

Social Psychology

Social Cognition; Effects of Schemas; Automatic and Controlled Processing; Attribution; The Self; Cognitive Dissonance; Multiply Motivated Self; Attitudes and Persuasion; Conformity; Compliance; Obedience; Group Processes; Attraction; Close Relationships etc....

Clinical Psychology

History; Paradigms;Diagnosis and Assessments;Anxiety disorders; Stress and Health; Eating disorders;Mood Disorders; Disassociate disorders; Substance related Disorderhrenia etc...

Human Emotion

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