Modern psychology in historical context -- Experimentation as a research method -- Nonexperimental research methods -- Evolutionary theory and modern psychology -- Freud's thinking -- Details of psychoanalytic theory -- Classification of mental illnesses -- Anxiety and mood disorders -- Disorders of brain, body, self, drugs, sex -- Schizophrenic disorders -- Childhood, retardation, personality disorders -- Physical therapies: drugs -- Physical therapies: ECT, surgery, genes -- Talking therapies: psychoanalysis -- Therapies: humanistic, cognitive, group -- Behavior therapies: classical conditioning -- Behavior therapies: operant conditioning -- Models of motivation -- Emotion: what do we measure? -- Emotion: theories -- Psychoactive drugs: processes, stimulants -- Drugs: depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens -- Social psychology: influence and reciprocity -- Social psychology: additional mechanism -- Simple learning: classical conditioning -- Simple learning: operant conditioning -- Complex learning -- Memory: characteristics -- Memory aids and forgetting theories -- Perception: forming internal models -- Perception: finding and organizing cues -- Evolutionary psychology: basic concepts -- Evolutionary psychology: altruism and mating -- Evolutionary psychology: war, family, food -- Engineering psychology -- Recap, omissions, and into the future.
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