Introductory Psychology in Modules - Pelham, Brett

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Résumé :

I. History of and Methods in Psychology:

1) Psychology and the Four Ways of Knowing

2) Seven Windows on the History of Psychology

3) Doing Good Science: Internal Validity in Psychological Research

4) Doing Relevant Science: External Validity and Archival Research

II. The Brain:

5) Six Important Features of the Human Brain

6) The Structure and Function of Key Brain Regions

III. Genetics & Evolution:

7) Genetics - Our Biological Origins

8) Evolutionary Psychology: How the Past Informs the Present

IV. Sensation & Perception:

9) How the World Gets Inside You: Sensation and Perception

10) Four Windows on Human Perception

V. Learning:

11) Classical Conditioning: Learning by Association

12) Operant Conditioning: Learning the Consequences of Our Behavior

VI. Motivation, Emotion, and More:

13) Motivation: The Psychology of Wants and Needs

14) Emotions: Are You Feeling It?

15) Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

VII. Memory and Cognition:

16) Memory: Making the Past the Present

17) Consciousness (or the Lack Thereof)

18) Exploring the Snap in Snap Judgment: Judgment and Decision Making

19) Look Who's Talking: Language and Reasoning

20) Intelligence and the Insularity of Genius

VIII. Lifespan Human Development:

21) Human Prenatal Development and Birth

22) Critical and Sensitive Periods in Human Development

23) Cognitive Development: Going from the Concrete to the Abstract

24) Psychosocial Development: Navigating Challenges Across the Lifespan

25) Adult Development: Getting There - and then Hanging in There

IX. Social, Personality, and Cultural Psychology:

26) Social Psychology: The Power of the Situation

27) Stereotypes and Social Perception

28) Six Lenses on Human Aggression

29) Is there an I in Altruism? Human Prosocial Behavior

30) Personality: Our Uniqueness and Why it Matters

31) Culture: How Psychology Varies with Geography

X. Clinical Psychology:

32) Everybody Hurts: Understanding Psychological Disorders

33) Getting Well: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

XI. Applied Psychology:

34) Health Psychology: How the Psychological Becomes the Physical

35) Mind Games, in a Good Way: Sport Psychology

36) Saving the Planet: Psychology and Climate Change