Pt. 1. lecture 1. Defining the subject -- lecture 2. Ancient foundations : Greek philosophers and physicians -- lecture 3. Minds possessed : witchery and the search for explanations -- lecture 4. The emergence of modern science : Locke's "Newtonian" theory of mind -- lecture 5. Three enduring "isms" : empiricism, rationalism, materialism -- lecture 6. Sensation and perception -- lecture 7. The visual process -- lecture 8. Hearing -- lecture 9. Signal-detection theory -- lecture 10. Perceptual constancies and illusions -- lecture 11. Learning and memory : Associationism, Aristotle to Ebbinghaus -- lecture 12. Pavlov and the conditioned reflex.
Pt. 2. lecture 13. Watson and American behaviorism -- lecture 14. B.F. Skinner and modern behaviorism -- lecture 15. B.F. Skinner and the engineering of society -- lecture 16. Language -- lecture 17. The integration of experience -- lecture 18. Perception and attention -- lecture 19. Cognitive "maps", "insight" and animal minds -- lecture 20. Memory revisitied : mnemonics and context -- lecture 21. Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development -- lecture 22. The development of moral reasoning -- lecture 23. Knowledge, thinking and understanding -- lecture 24. Comprehending the world of experience : cognition summarized.
Pt. 3. lecture 25. Psychobiology : nineteenth-century foundations -- lecture 26. Language and the brain -- lecture 27. Rationality, problem-solving and brain function -- lecture 28. The "emotional brain" : the limbic system -- lecture 29. Violence and the brain -- lecture 30. Psychopathology : the medical model -- lecture 31. Artificial intelligence and the neurocognitive revolution -- lecture 32. Is artificial intelligence "intelligent?" -- lecture 33. What makes an event "social"? -- lecture 34. Socialization : Darwin and the "natural history" method -- lecture 35. Freud's debts to Darwin -- lecture 36. Freud, Breuer and the theory of repression.
Pt. 4. lecture 37. Freud's theory of psychosexual development -- lecture 38. Critiques of Freudian theory -- lecture 39. What is personality? -- lecture 40. Obedience and conformity -- lecture 41. Altruism -- lecture 42. Prejudice and self-deception -- lecture 43. On being sane in insane places -- lecture 44. Intelligence -- lecture 45. Personality traits and the problem of assessment -- lecture 46. Genetic psychology and "the bell curve" -- lecture 47. Psychological and biological determinism -- lecture 48. Civic development : psychology, the person and the Polis.
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