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For each lecture, students are given a brief handout containing an outline, key questions, and points to ponder. Slides on visual perception and attention are also presented for lectures 4 and 5.


1: The Brain: Between the Ears, Behind the Eyes

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2: Motivation and Emotion: "Reason Alone Cannot Move Us To Do Anything"

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3: Learning: The Power of Association

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4: Sensing: Gathering the Information

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5: Attending: Limiting the Information

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6: Perceiving: Interpreting the Information

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7: Memory: What Do You Remember?

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8: Cognition: How Do You Think?

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9: Cognitive Development: How Do Children Think?

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11: Language Development: What Do Children Say?

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12: Intelligence: How Do We Know You Are Smart?

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13: The Battle of the Sexes: Love and Evolution

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14: Social Exchange: Romantic Economics

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15: Attitudes and Behaviors: How Can We Be Controlled?

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16: Who Are you? The Psychology of the Self

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17: From Dissociation To Repression

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18: Freud and Fairy Tales

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19: Sleep and Dreams

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20: Defining Mental Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane?

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21: Causing Mental Illness: What Can Make You "Lose" Your Mind?

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22: Successful Disasters: Eating Disorders

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23: Successful Disasters: Date Rape

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