Course no. 10060. Program contains 36 lectures; the length of each lecture is: approx. 30 min. Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-375) in course guidebook. Lecturer: Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College.
Contents:
disc 6: Mindset, health, and general well-being. How and why psychology matters -- Positive psychology: a science of happiness -- Your brain: a user's guide -- Your nervous system, hormones, and behavior -- Understanding and managing stress -- disc 2: Sensation: how you gather information -- Perception: illusions and interpretations -- Pain and placebos -- Attention, sleep, and dreaming -- Consciousness modified: drugs to mindfulness -- Performance psychology in sport and life -- disc 3: Cognitive development across the lifespan -- How language develops and why it matters -- Attachment bonds from infancy to adulthood -- Moral development and situational ethics -- Learning: conditioned, reinforced, observed -- Memory and forgetting -- disc 4: Problem-solving and errors of thinking -- Psychology of eyewitnesses and confessions -- Intelligence and creativity -- Emotional intelligence and success -- Adversity and resillience -- Motivation: eating, sex, and achievement -- disc 5: Emotions: why you feel -- Attraction, love, and lasting relationships -- Strategies of persuasion -- Conformity, social loafing, and obedience -- Stereotypes and agression -- Altruism: origins and opportunities -- disc 6: Explaining personality -- Demystifying psychological disorders -- The epidemic of mood and anxiety disorders -- Understanding and overcoming addiction -- Ways therapy works -- Mindset, health, and general well-being.
Summary:
A grand introduction to one of the most captivating, and human, fields of inquiry. Taught by Professor Catherine A. Sanderson of Amherst College, these 36 insightful lessons not only give a solid grounding in the history of psychology, but they also introduce viewers to the most up-to-date 21st-century research and discoveries, including strategies to increase their happiness and to improve how to live their lives.
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