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1. Request Access
2. About This Course
3. I Need Help
4. What Is Psychology?
5. History of Psychology
6. Contemporary Psychology
7. Video: Intro to Psychology
8. Careers in Psychology
9. Psychological Perspectives
10. Introduction to Psychological Research
11. Why Is Research Important?
12. Approaches to Research
13. Video: Psychological Research
14. Analyzing Findings
15. Ethics
16. Statistical Thinking
17. Introduction to Biospychology
18. Human Genetics
19. Cells of the Nervous System
20. Video: The Chemical Mind
21. Parts of the Nervous System
22. The Brain and Spinal Cord
23. Video: Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain
24. The Endocrine System
25. Introduction to Sensation and Perception
26. Sensation versus Perception
27. Video: Sensation & Perception
28. Waves and Wavelengths
29. Vision
30. The Other Senses
31. Hearing
32. Video: Homunculus
33. Pain
34. Gestalt Principles of Perception
35. Video: Perceiving is Believing
36. Introduction to States of Consciousness
37. What Is Consciousness?
38. Video: Consciousness
39. Sleep and Why We Sleep
40. Stages of Sleep
41. Video: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
42. Sleep Problems and Disorders
43. Substance Use and Abuse
44. Other States of Consciousness
45. Video: Altered States
46. Introduction to Learning
47. What Is Learning?
48. Classical Conditioning
49. Operant Conditioning
50. Video: Reinforcement vs. Punishment
51. Video: How to Train a Brain
52. Video: The Bobo Beatdown
53. Observational Learning (Modeling)
54. Introduction to Memory
55. How Memory Functions
56. Video: How We Make Memories
57. Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
58. Problems with Memory
59. Video: Remembering and Forgetting
60. Ways to Enhance Memory
61. Introduction
62. What Is Cognition?
63. Video: Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You
64. Language
65. Video: Language
66. Problem Solving
67. What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
68. Video: Controversy of Intelligence
69. Measures of Intelligence
70. The Source of Intelligence
71. Video: Brains vs. Bias
72. Introduction to Lifespan Development
73. What Is Lifespan Development?
74. Lifespan Theories: Psychosexual and Psychosocial Theories
75. Lifespan Theories: Cognitive Development
76. Video: The Growth of Knowledge
77. Lifespan Theories: Moral Development
78. Stages of Development
79. Video: What Do Babies Think?
80. Video: Monkeys and Morality
81. Video: Adolescence
82. Death and Dying
83. Introduction to Motivation and Emotion
84. Motivation
85. Video: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
86. Video: The Power of Motivation
87. Hunger and Eating
88. Video: Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
89. Sexual Behavior
90. Video: Let's Talk About Sex
91. Video: Body Language
92. Emotion
93. Video: Feeling All the Feels
94. Introduction to Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
95. What Is Stress?
96. Stressors
97. Stress and Illness
98. Regulation of Stress
99. The Pursuit of Happiness
100. More on Happiness: The Science of Subjective Well-Being
101. Video: Emotion, Stress and Health
102. Video: How to Make Stress Your Friend
103. Introduction to Personality
104. What Is Personality?
105. Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
106. Video: Rorschach & Freudians
107. Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
108. Learning Approaches
109. Humanistic Approaches
110. Biological Approaches
111. Trait Theorists
112. Cultural Understandings of Personality
113. Personality Assessment
114. Video: Measuring Personality
115. Introduction to Psychological Disorders
116. What Are Psychological Disorders?
117. Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
118. Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
119. Video: Psychological Disorders
120. Anxiety Disorders
121. Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
122. Video: Debunking Myths of OCD
123. Video: OCD & Anxiety Disorders
124. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
125. Video: Trauma & Addiction
126. Mood Disorders
127. Video: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
128. Schizophrenia
129. Dissociative Disorders
130. Video: Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders
131. Personality Disorders
132. Video: Personality Disorders
133. Disorders in Childhood
134. Introduction to Therapy and Treatment
135. Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
136. Types of Treatment
137. Video: Getting Help - Psychotherapy
138. Video: Biomedical Treatments
139. Treatment Modalities
140. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
141. The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
142. Introduction to Social Psychology
143. What Is Social Psychology?
144. Video: Social Thinking
145. Self-presentation
146. Attitudes and Persuasion
147. Video: First Impressions
148. Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
149. Video: Social Influence
150. Prejudice and Discrimination
151. Resources: Prejudices and Stereotypes
152. Video: Prejudice & Discrimination
153. Aggression
154. Video: Aggression v. Altruism
155. Prosocial Behavior
156. Helping and Prosocial Behavior
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