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