Public Courses

Category : Psychology
15 Mar 2012

Behavioral Evolution

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Robert Sapolsky's video lectures at Stanford
07 Mar 2012

Social Psychology

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UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Social Psychology Lecture by Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.
05 Mar 2012

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

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This is a University of Houston Online Course by Prof. Edward Sheridan. I took this from http://freevideolectures.com. The course is about Survey of the science and practice of clinical psychology and its specialty areas, including discussions or diagnoses and evaluations, empirically-validated...
15 Sep 2011

Introduction to Psychology

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What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can't we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and...
12 May 2011

General Psychology

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This course presents a playlist of video lectures from UC Berkeley on general psychology
02 May 2011

Attention

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What does ‘attention’ mean to you? This unit will help you to examine how we ‘pay attention’. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why?
01 May 2011

Addiction and neural ageing

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This unit looks at two topics that are of immense worldwide social, economic, ethical, and political importance – ‘addiction’ and ‘neural ageing’. You will develop a Master's level approach to the study of specific issues within these two important subject areas.

The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective

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The body has traditionally been treated as a biological object in psychology. However, is there more to our bodies than that? Some psychologists recognise that we relate to other people and the world about us through our body. This unit explores the theoretical perspective on embodiment: the...

Understanding dyslexia

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Dyslexia is a condition affecting literacy skills. This unit analyses how our image of normality affects the way we as a society define such conditions. You will learn how important it is to integrate the different psychological accounts of dyslexia in order to provide a full explanation of...

EPOCH Psychology history timeline

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This unit uses an interactive resource (EPoCH) to gain a better sense of how the historical and social context influences psychological inquiry. You will examine the different methods used by psychologists to investigate human behavior and learn to identify the different perspectives that exist in...

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