The Great Ideas of Psychology

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.

Topics Covered:

• 1: Defining the Subject
• 2: Ancient Foundations-Greek Philosophers and Physicians
• 3: Minds Possessed-Witchery and the Search for Explanations
• 4: The Emergence of Modern Science-Locke's "Newtonian" Theory of Mind
• 5: Three Enduring "Isms"-Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism
• 6: Sensation and Perception
• 7: The Visual Process
• 8: Hearing
• 9: 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