01 - Introduction

Update: 2009-10-07

Description

Professor Paul Bloom welcomes students and presents the course as a comprehensive introduction to the study of the human mind. Course readings and requirements are discussed. The five main branches of psychology are presented: neuroscience, which is a study of the mind by looking at the brain; developmental, which focuses on how people grow and learn; cognitive, which refers to the computational approach to studying the mind; social, which studies how people interact; and clinical, which examines mental health and mental illnesses.

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20 - The Good Life: Happiness

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19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

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18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)

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17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter

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15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality

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16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

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14 - What Motivates Us: Sex

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12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

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10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

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09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)

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08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)

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07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory

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06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

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04 - Foundations: Skinner

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03 - Foundations: Freud

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02 - Foundations: This Is Your Brain

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01 - Introduction

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01 - Introduction

Paul Bloom

01 - Introduction