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The Great Ideas of Psychology

Course Number 660 48 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)

Taught by: Professor Daniel N. Robinson -- Oxford University and Columbia University

http://www.teach12.com/ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/660.asphttp://www.teach12.com Lectures

Part I: Foundations and Psychology in the Empiricist Tradition

Lecture 1: Defining the SubjectLecture 2: Ancient Foundations Greek Philosophers and PhysiciansLecture 3: Minds Possessed -- Witchery and the Search for Explan

ationsLecture 4: The Emergence of Modern Science -- Locke's "Newtonian

" Theory of MindLecture 5: Three Enduring "isms" -- Empiricism, Rationalism, Mat

erialismLecture 6: Sensation and PerceptionLecture 7: The Visual Process

Lecture 8: HearingLecture 9: Signal-Detection TheoryLecture 10: Perceptual Constancies and IllusionsLecture 11: Learning and Memory: Associationism -- Aristotle to

EgginbhausLecture 12: Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex

Part II: Psychology and the Empiricist Tradition (cont'd) and Psychology and

the Rationalist Tradition

Lecture 13: Watson and American Behaviorism

Lecture 14: B.F. Skinner and Modern BehaviorismLecture 15: B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of SocietyLecture 16: LanguageLecture 17: The Integration of ExperienceLecture 18: Perception and AttentionLecture 19: Cognitive "Maps," "Insight," and Animal MindsLecture 20: Memory Revisited -- Mnemonics and ContextLecture 21: Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentLecture 22: The Development of Moral ReasoningLecture 23: Knowledge, Thinking, and UnderstandingLecture 24: Comprehending the World of Experience -- Cognition S

ummarized

Part III: Psychology and the Rationalist Tradition (cont'd) and Psychology in the Materialist Tradition

Lecture 25: Psychobiology -- Nineteenth-Century FoundationsLecture 26: Language and the BrainLecture 27: Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain FunctionLecture 28: The "Emotional" Brain -- The Limbic SystemLecture 29: Violence and the BrainLecture 30: Psychopathology - The Medical Model

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Lecture 31: Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution

Lecture 32: Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"?Lecture 33: What Makes an Event "Social"?Lecture 34: Socialization: Darwin and the "Natural History" Meth

odLecture 35: Freud's Debt to DarwinLecture 36: Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression

Part IV: Psychology and the Social Context (cont'd) and Enduring Issues

Lecture 37: Freud's Theory of Psychosexual DevelopmentLecture 38: Critiques of Freudian TheoryLecture 39: What Is Personality?Lecture 40: Obedience and ConformityLecture 41: AltruismLecture 42: Prejudice and Self-DeceptionLecture 43: On Being Sane in Insane PlacesLecture 44: IntelligenceLecture 45: Personality Traits and the Problem of AssessmentLecture 46: Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve"Lecture 47: Psychological and Biological DeterminismLecture 48: Civic Development -- Psychology, the Person, and the

PolisThe Great Ideas of Psychology

This course is for the "seeker" in you: your need to know, your willingness

to self-examine, your restless curiosity about the world around you.

If you ve ever wanted to understand more about your emotions, your cognitive

thinking skills, and other traits that make you uniquely human, thenexperience The Great Ideas of Psychology.

This is a fascinating and provocative course -- a joyride of ideas,speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantleand

rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology -- not just what

psychology is, but even if it is!

To listen to these lectures is to hear the entire history of psychologyunfold and to know that the subject most of us today associate with name

slike Sigmund Freud and B. F. Skinner really began thousands of yearsearlier.

You ll meet Freud, Skinner, Jung, Watson, Piaget, Erikson, and other figuresof the modern history of psychology. But you ll also encounter Plato andAristotle. Locke and Hume. Bacon, Newton, Galileo, and Descartes. You llsail to the Galapagos Islands with Darwin. Share an intimate corresponde

ncebetween Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Psychologists all.

Indeed the lectures embrace so diverse a spectrum of thinkers and subjects

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that you might find it hard to believe you re taking just a "psychology"course.