PSYC 110: Introduction to Psychology
Class Sessions
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| 1. Introduction |
| 2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain |
| 3. Foundations: Freud |
| 4. Foundations: Skinner |
| 5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought |
| 6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands |
| 7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory |
| 8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.) |
| 9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey) |
| 10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality |
| 11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I |
| 12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II |
| Midterm Exam |
| Brain and Perception (Guest Lecture by Professor Marvin Chun) |
| 13. Why Are People Different?: Differences |
| 14. What Motivates Us: Sex |
| The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food (Guest Lecture by Professor Kelly Brownell) |
| 15. A Person in the World of People: Morality |
| 16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I |
| 17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter |
| 18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema) |
| 19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II |
| 20. The Good Life: Happiness |
| Final Exam |
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