Why do we dream and what do the dreams mean? How do our brains generate consciousness? How does the mind work? What is my mind and who am I? Why do people do the things they do? We can ask these kinds of questions to ourselves from time to time. They are questions of psychology - the scientific study of the mind and behavior. To answer these questions, we sometimes need to learn the relationship between brain, mind and behavior - considering the perspectives from different disciplines such as biology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.
Taught by Professor Paul Bloom, this course provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams.
What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? Taught by Professor June Gruber, this course introduces a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion.
Taught by Professor John F. Kihlstrom, this course introduces the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. It will survey the scientific study of mental life and the mental functions that underlie human experience, thought, and action.
Taught by Prof. John Gabrieli, this course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind: the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction.
Instructor: Professor Michael D'Zmura. This course is designed to provide an in-depth survey of general psychology. Topics include biological bases of behavior, sensation, perception, cognition, development, personality, psychopathology, and social psychology.
Instructor: Professor Timothy Slattery. This course provides a comprehensive overview of cognitive psychology, the scientific study of mental processes: how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate information.
Instructor: Professor Wendy Suzuki. This course examines how the brain learns and how it creates new behaviors, together with the brain mechanisms that are involved in sensory experience, movement, hunger and thirst, sexual behaviors, the experience of emotions, perception and cognition, memory and the brain's plasticity.
Instructor: Professor Joel E. Schlosburg. This course provides an introduction to the contemporary study of behavior through consideration of basic psychological processes and brain mechanisms.
Taught by Professor Robert Sapolsky, this course focuses on how to approach complex normal and abnormal behaviors through biology and how to integrate disciplines including sociobiology, ethology, neuroscience, and endocrinology to examine behaviors.
Taught by Professor John F. Kihlstrom, this course will examine the nature of human consciousness from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. It will cover topics from the philosophy of mind, cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computational models.
Taught by Professor Robb Willer, this course offers a broad survey of the various theories and perspectives advanced in social psychology. It will study social psychological research on a wide variety of topics including conformity, obedience, identity, power, status, and interpersonal perception.
Instructor: Professor Benjamin Karney. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption.
Instructor: Professor Kelly D. Brownell. This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems.
Instructor: Professor Elizabeth Bauer. This course provides students with the basic tools for evaluating data from studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.
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