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Audio Lectures and Notes

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.

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

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

3: Learning: The Power of Association

4: Sensing: Gathering the Information

5: Attending: Limiting the Information

6: Perceiving: Interpreting the Information

7: Memory: What Do You Remember?

8: Cognition: How Do You Think?

9: Cognitive Development: How Do Children Think?

11: Language Development: What Do Children Say?

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

13: The Battle of the Sexes: Love and Evolution

14: Social Exchange: Romantic Economics

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

16: Who Are you? The Psychology of the Self

17: From Dissociation To Repression

18: Freud and Fairy Tales

19: Sleep and Dreams

20: Defining Mental Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane?

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

22: Successful Disasters: Eating Disorders

23: Successful Disasters: Date Rape

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