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Lec # |
TOPICS |
KEY DATES |
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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 |
Paper 1 due |
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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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10 |
Language: What Do You
Say? |
Paper 2 due |
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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? |
Paper 3 due |
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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 the
Development of Morality |
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19 |
Freud and Fairy Tales |
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20 |
Sleep and Dreams |
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21 |
Defining Mental
Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane? |
Paper 4 due |
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22 |
Causing Mental
Illness: What Can Make You "Lose" Your Mind? |
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23 |
Curing Mental
Illness: Beyond Magic Bullets |
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