Great Ideas of Psychology | Date: 12 April 2011, 09:21
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If you've ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, this course offers a superb place to start.
As you hear these lectures, you hear the entire history of psychology unfold. And you learn that the subject most of us today associate with names like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and B. F. Skinner really began thousands of years earlier.
In the hands of Professor Daniel N. Robinson, this course roams far and wide, encompassing ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology.
[b]Witness the Debate over Psychology's Very Existence[/b]
In fact, you not only learn what psychology is, but even if it is, as Professor Robinson discusses the constantly shifting debate over the nature of psychology itself.
You see one school of thought after another enter the fray, trying to determine how this strange thing called the human "mind" is to be understood, studied, and treated:
[list][*]Are we an entity that simply perceives an external world and piles one experience upon another in order to learn?
[*]Could such a process even happen without an intervening rationality to make sense of it all?
[*]Or is "mind" itself merely an unobservable illusion, leaving the science of psychology with little more to study than the actual physical realities of body and brain?
[/list]It's a debate that has raged for centuries, and to take this course is to see the question and its implications with a new clarity.
[b]A Multidisciplinary Teacher of Exceptional Skills[/b]
Originally trained as a neuropsychologist, Professor Robinson's decades of lecturing and distinguished scholarship have also established him as an authority in the fields of philosophical psychology, the history of psychology, and the junction of psychology and law.
So it is no surprise that he brings clarity, coherence, and comprehensiveness to this stimulating treatment of psychological speculation, debate, and investigation through the ages.
We think you'll agree that he has crafted a fascinating and immensely thought-provoking course—one that is philosophically well-grounded, scientifically informative, and engagingly presented by a true master of the teaching art.
It is a course, in short, for the "seeker" in you, designed to satisfy your need to know, your willingness to self-examine, and your restless curiosity about the world around you.
In fact, the array of ideas, cases, and issues you encounter is so remarkable, embracing so diverse a spectrum of thinkers and subjects, that you might find it hard to believe you're taking just a "psychology" course.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]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
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