PSYC 110
Introduction to Psychology
Spring 2007
Topics
- Introduction
- Foundations: This Is Your Brain
- Foundations: Freud
- Foundations: Skinner
- What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
- How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
- Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
- Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
- Midterm Exam
- Brain and Perception (Guest Lecture by Professor Marvin Chun)
- Why Are People Different?: Differences
- What Motivates Us: Sex
- The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food (Guest Lecture by Professor Kelly Brownell)
- A Person in the World of People: Morality
- A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
- A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter
- What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)
- What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
- The Good Life: Happiness
- Final Exam
Readings
- Gray, Peter. Psychology . New York: Worth Publishers, 2007. Marcus, Gary, ed. The Norton Psychology Reader . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.