Dana C. Leighton
Intro to Psychology Lectures
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Covers schizophrenia, eating disorders, treatments
Covers mood disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, dissociative disorders, personality disorders
Part 1 of psychological disorders. Covers the concept of abnormality, history, and medical model.
Theories of stress: Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome; Lazarus's appraisal based model
Covers an introduction to stress, including the nervous system and neuroendocrine system
Covers groups and social cognition. Also friendship, attraction and romance.
Social influences on individual behavior
Covers social norms, roles, conformity and obedience. WARNING: audio cuts out before the end of the episode.
Covers the trait perspective, and social-cognitive perspective.
Personality Theories - Part 1: Psychodynamic & Humanistic perspectives.
First half of this episode covers the James Bell workbook exercise 2.2 on how to identify psychological research. Second half covers memory, primarily encoding, storage, and associative networks.
Nervous system part 2: glial cells & hormones. Brain structure and function; neuroimaging; hemispheric specialization; brain damage; plasticity.
Nervous system organization & function. Neuroanatomy. action potential process, neurotransmitters & neurotransmission. Psychophysiology lab: muscle unit recruitment.
The scientific method, and methods of experimentation in psychology. Covers independent & dependent variables, control & experimental conditions, sampling, assignment.
This episode covers history of psychology post-renaissance, perspectives in psychology, and begins discussion of systems and methods: Scientific terminology.
Covers electronic resources for learning & studying: MyPCC; textbook & MyPsychLab sites; podcast; weblog. Began survey of philosophy of mind-body dualism. Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas.
Introduction to my course in introductory psychology. Course policies and procedures. Psychophysiology labs.
This episode covers sex motivation and emotion.
Motivation concepts and principles; Maslow's hierarchy of needs; Instinct; Hunger
Intelligence models - Spearman's g factor; Gardner's multiple intelligences; Sternberg's Triarchic theory; Test validity and reliability
Intelligence -- basic concepts. Genetic theories of intelligence; Goddard; Kallikak family; Contemporary studies of heredity; Binet; Terman; IQ
Introduction to the PSY 202A course - course policies and procedures.
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