The great ideas of psychology
Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University presents forty-eight lectures tracing the development and evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century.
| Main Author: | Robinson, Daniel N., 1937- |
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| Other Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springfield, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
24 audiocassettes (approximately 1440 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.) |
| Series: |
Great courses on tape (Audiocassette)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Defining the subject
- Ancient foundations
- Minds possessed
- Witchery and the search for explanations
- Three enduring "isms"-Empiricism, rationalism, materialism
- Sensation and perception
- The visual process
- Hearing
- Signal-detection theory
- Perceptual constancies and illusions
- Learning and memory
- Pavlov and the conditioned reflex
- Watson and American behaviorism
- B.F.Skinner and modern behaviorism
- B.F.Skinner and the engineering of society
- Language
- The integration of experience
- Perception and attention
- Cognitive "Maps,""Insight," and animal minds
- Memory revisited-Mnemonics and context
- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development
- The development of moral reasoning
- Knowledge, thinking, and understanding
- Comprehending the world of experience
- Psychobiology, Nineteenth Century foundations
- B.F.Skinner and modern behaviorism
- B.F.Skinner and the engineering of society
- Language
- The integration of experience
- Perception and attention
- Cognitive "Maps,""Insight," and animal minds
- Memory revisited
- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development
- The development of moral reasoning
- Knowledge, thinking, and understanding
- Comprehending the world of experience
- Psychobiology, Nineteenth Century foundations
- Language and the brain
- Rationality, problem-solving, and brain function
- The "Emotional" brain
- Violence and the brain
- Psychopathology
- The medical model
- Artificial intelligence and the neurocognitive revolution
- Is artificial intelligence "Intelligent"?
- What makes an event "Social"?
- Socialization
- Darwin and the "Natural History" method
- Freud's debt to Darwin
- Freud, Breuer, and the theory of repression
- Freud's theory of psychosexual development
- Critiques of Freudian theory
- What is "Personality"?
- Obedience and conformity
- Altruism
- Prejudice and self-deception
- On being sane in insane places
- Intelligence
- Personality traits and the problem of assessment
- Genetic psychology and "The Bell Curve"
- Psychological and biological determinism
- Civic development
- Psychology, the person, and the polis. psychosexual development
- Critiques of Freudian theory
- What is "Personality"?
- Obedience and conformity
- Altruism
- Prejudice and self-deception
- On being sane in insane places
- Intelligence
- Personality traits and the problem of assessment
- Genetic psychology and "The Bell Curve"
- Psychological and biological determinism
- Civic development.