Introduction to Psychology is a journey through all of the major psychological concepts and principles. The knowledge gained from this course will allow students to critically evaluate psychological research and have a more in-depth understanding of human thought and behavior.
This is the second course in the five-part Career Edge Fullbridge XSeries, designed to prepare student for career success.
Recommended Course Schedule
Week 1:
Lesson 01 What Is Psychology
Introduction to Psychology (and Tickles too)
Quiz: Two Areas of Curiousity
Questions Answered by Psychology
Practice Versus Research
Quiz: Applications of psychology
Quiz: Not real subfields
Psychology and animals
Quiz: What is IO psychology
Industrial and organizational psychology
Quiz: Health psychology
Subfields in this Course
What's the Point?
Quiz: Psychology of a NYC murder case
Those Other Fields
Forensic Psychology
Quiz: Questions for cognitive psychologists
Quiz: Learning in noisy environments
The Whole Story
The Questions of Psychology
What to do next
Week 2:
Lesson 02 Research Methods
Introduction to Research Methods
Sex Chores Correlation
Correlational coefficients
Which correlation
Negative point four correlation
Point four correlation
Less chores more sex
Beach correlation study
Two variables
Correlates which way
Ice cream causing drowning
Other factors
Correlation does not imply causation
Observing coffee drinking
Measuring cause and effect
Independent and dependent variables
High fives study
Hypothesis for high fives
Hypothesis vs theory
Dependent variable for high fives
Objective measure of happiness
Objective vs subjective measures
Two groups
Group assignment
Random assignment
Beverages
Single blind
Why single blind
Double blind studies
How to measure reaction time
Caffeine study recap
What conclusions
Data collected
Normal distribution
Caffeine study data
Ethics in research
Ethics in a cocaine study
Research methods closing points
Week 3:
Lesson 03 Biology of Behavior
The biology of behavior
Introducing Matt Sputnik and Genetics
Timeline of humans
Our closest relative
Human evolution
Natural selection
Consequences for humans
Brain evolution
Genetic code
Most DNA
Genome
Alleles
Dominant alleles
Dominance complexity
Huntington's disease
Genetic basis for behavior
Polygenic and monogenic traits
Introducing epigenetics
Genetically identical mice
Effects on offspring
Genes are not everything
Hear more Tales from the Genome
The importance of the brain
The nervous system
Somatic or autonomic
Dividing the autonomic nervous system
Startling dog
Return to normal
Responding to Tickles
Another sympathetic response
Parasympathetic and sympathetic physiology
Nervous system parts
The Amazing Brain in Lauren pets Sputnik
Important terms to be discussed
Cells of the nervous system
Two ways neurons communicate
The neuron
Synapses
Nerve signal path
Myelin sheath
Types of neurons
Signal from sensory neurons
Neurons responding to a bee
The action potential
Neurotransmission
Breakdown of neurotransmitters
Blocking reuptake
Importance of neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitters affecting thought and behavior
Brain function
Brain structures
London cab drivers
Lobes of the brain
Structure of the brain
Phineas Gage
Phineas fate
Cerebral hemispheres
Brain imaging
Methods of brain imaging
Closing points
Week 4:
Lesson 04 Sensation and Perception
Introduction to sensation and perception
Let the games begin
From the floor
Weight difference threshold
Which difference is hardest
Average weight difference threshold
Pain away
Pain from cut
More pain
Mechanoreceptors
Golden brain ceremony
Primary flavors
Savory flavor
Taste off
Emotional cookies
Sniffbook
What is sound
Pressure waves
Volume
Which wave is louder
Pitch
What is the frequency
Frequency and Pitch
Frequency of waves
Frequency and waves
Frequency of waves 2
Timbre
Three properties
First hearing event
Threshold tests
Absolute pitch threshold
Megga dog series 30000
Absolute volume threshold
How decibels work
Average threshold for volume
Deciboost
How does hearing work
Parts of the ear
Distance vision competition
Nearsightedness and the eye
Farsightedness
Parts of the eye
Last part of the eye
A colorblind winner
The trouble with colorblindness
Light waves and color
Color and wavelengths
The trouble with cones
Are you colorblind
Depth Perception
Depth Perception 2
Binocular cues
Jumping thumb
Monocular cues
Linear perspective
Odins eye
Goodbye from Sense Olympics
Closing points
Week 5:
Lesson 05 Development
Introduction with Sully
Nature vs nurture
Twin studies
Which is nature or nurture
Developmental stages and domains
Prenatal and infant neural development
Neurons without stimulation
Neuroplasticity
Most neurons
Toddler without stimulation
Neuroplasticity in action
Prenatal exposure
Two teratogens
Harmful teratogens
Alcohol and FASD
REM sleep for learning
Who else needs sleep
World of a newborn
Development of hearing
Development of vision
A visual cliff
The visual cliff test
Sensorimotor stage
Why do babies put things in their mouths
Where is the duck
Object permanence
Social development
Bowlby attachment theory
Why is attachment so important
Assumptions of attachment theory
Strange situation test
Which is avoidant-attachment
Which is anxious-ambivalent attachment
Secure attachment
Conclusions of Bowlby and Ainsworth
Harlow monkeys
Which monkey
What goes into attachment
Social development of Harlow monkeys
Field's newborn study
Outcome of Field's study
Just because of touch
Preoperational stage
Conservation task
Three mountain problem
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
Remember this quiz
Changes in the adolescent body
Teenage social emotional development
Friendships and relationships in adolescence
Sexual relationships in adolescence
Sexual identity in adolescence
What makes someone an adult
Adulthood
Adult social development
Parents age for marriage
Personality and parenthood
Late adulthood
Age of mental decline
Week 6:
Lesson 06 Consciousness
Introduction to consciousness
Coma and consciousness
Two main dimensions of consciousness
Wakefulness and awareness
Tip of the tongue
Consciousness spectrum
Full consciousness
Attention
Simons and Chabris
Selective attention
Did you notice
Inattentional blindness
The cocktail party effect
Discontinuities in the last video
Change blindness
Think about this scenario
Identify parts of the scenario
Sustained attention
Meditation
Meditation study
Meditation study variables
Switching gears
Circadian rhythms
Chronotypes
Why do we sleep
The function of sleep
When we sleep
Sleep deprivation
The importance of sleep
Sufficient sleep
Sleep deprived test
Sleep apnea
Narcolepsy
Living with narcolepsy
Night terrors
Living with night terrors
Insomnia
Sleep disorder question
Good or bad for sleep
Sleep hygiene
Brain during sleep
Sleep stages
Brain waves during sleep
Which wave is awake
REM brain waves
Identifying features of sleeping brain waves
Importance of REM
REM sleep for learning
Lucid dreaming
What is a drug
Drug definition
Exploring aspects of drugs
Why take drugs
Do other animals use drugs
Psychoactive and psychotropic
BetterDay classification
Drugs of abuse
Two reasons people take drugs
Reviewing biology of behavior
Variables influencing drug use
Week 7:
Lesson 07 Learning
Questions to be answered
Learning
Conditioning Greg
Only bell
Classical conditioning
Reflexes
Which are reflexes
Ivan Pavlov
Parts of conditioning
Pavlov experiments
Which part of conditioning
Tone for conditioning
Acquisition
No more meat powder
Extinction and spontaneous recovery
Response versus trials
Bell in conditioning of Greg
Unconditioned stimulus
Greg flinching to the gun
Bell after repeated pairing
Flinching to the bell
Repeated pairing to make Greg flinch to the bell
Purpose of extinguishing
Little Albert
Single pairing fear response
Conditioned taste aversion
Black boots study
Matching parts of the black boots study
Other classical conditioning studies
BF Skinner
Skinner box
Schedules of reinforcement
Sea lions and conditioning
ABCs of operant conditioning
Reinforcement and punishment
Introduction to Dr. Zeligs
ABCs in our natural environment
Captive animals
Animal husbandry
Classical and operant conditioning
Conditioning in action with sea lions
What was the target
Training more complex behavior
ABCs example with Cali
Extinction in operant conditioning
Reinforcement
Looking back on ABCs in our environment
Table of operant conditioning
Analyzing operant conditioning
Uses of operant conditioning
Sea lion farewell
Albert Bandura
Bobo doll study
Independent variable of this study
After showing bobo doll interaction
Dependent variable of this study
Results of the bobo doll study
Bobo doll study with reinforcement
Social learning and sharks
Showing pictures of shark diving
Week 8:
Lesson 08 Memory
Do you remember
H.M. or Henry Molaison
Removal of the hippocampi
The importance of memory
Check out this picture
Three types of memory
Sensory memory
Short-term or working memory
Remember this number
Now try this one
Remember these letters
Chunking
Rule of seven
Central executive
Visuospatial sketchpad
Remember this list
What was on the list?
Serial position effect
Flashcard order
Introduction to long-term memory
Examples of long-term memories
Explicit or declarative memory
Implicit (non-declarative) memory
Bike riding memories
Four steps to long-term memory
Encoding
Example words
Mnemonic devices
Grocery list mnemonic
Consolidation
Storage
Schemas
Associative network
Four steps recap
Making an outline
Max the golden retriever
Retrieval
False memories
Importance of false memories
Limiting false memories
Car accident example
Forgetting and memory loss
How do we forget
Reasons people might not remember
Amnesia
Injury caused amnesia
Alzheimer's disease
Absentmindedness
Biological basis of memory
Three distinct long term memory systems
Brain structure and type of memory
HM and the tracing task
Sensory cortex
Stimulus to memory
Sensory systems of the brain
Short term or working memory in the brain
Long term memory in the brain
Emotions in memory
Memory processes and emotions
Long term potentiation
Week 9:
Lesson 09 Language and Thought
I think therefore I am
What is language
Language taken for granted
Human language
How did we get language
Development language
Individual language development
Brocas before Wernickes
Specific stages of language development
Unique way of saying things
Sentence phase
Not exposed to language
Genie neglected
Genies brain and language
Agreeing on theories
Perspectives on language acquisition
Social cultural theory
The brain in language acquisition
Starting point for two theories
Verbal behavior
Other environmental factors
Hart and Risley study
What did they find
Speaking at the same time
Socioeconomic factors
Praise words
Imitation
World within our skin
Skinners functional approach
Chomskys structural approach
Essence of Chomskys view
Vocal apparatus
You choose
Teach animals human language
Other species can communicate
Apes and ASL
Language and thought
Recapping language
Lost in translation
Dreaming in other languages
Thought in more detail
Mental representations
Try this question
Mental rotation
Reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
Causal inferences
Critical thinking
Metacognitive thinking
Judgement and decision making
How many decisions
Heuristics
Question for availability heuristic
Availability heuristic
Benefits and drawbacks of heuristics
Language and thought closing
Week 10:
Lesson 10 Intelligence
Intelligence introduction
What is intelligent life
Define intelligence
What is intelligence
Scientific theories of intelligence
Two main theories of intelligence
Which question is better
Intelligence as a single ability
Spearmans theory
Critics of single intelligence
Accurately measuring intelligence
Multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences
Eight types of intelligence
Intelligence and professions
Evaluating multiple intelligences
Evidence for multiple intelligences
Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory
Measuring intelligence
First IQ tests
Stanford Binet test
Working memory test
IQ test reliability
IQ test validity
Non verbal tests
IQ score distribution
Cognitive disability
Why do we need intelligence tests
Nature nurture and IQ
Which would you consider as intelligent
Three people considered intelligent by society
What do you think makes someone creative
Two paragraphs
Defining creativity
Can creativity be measured
Alternate uses test
Example creative thnking test
Try this test
Intelligence and creativity
Two string test
Problem solving
Obstacles to problem solving
Identifying obstacles
Intelligence closing points
Week 11:
Lesson 11 Motivation and Emotion
Why do we do the things we do
Motivation
Types of motivation
Psychological models of motivation
An evolutionary perspective
Drive reduction model
Yerkes-Dodson law
Performance due to arousal
Maslow's hierarchy
Put these needs in the hierarchy
Need to belong
Rejection
Achievement motivation
IO psychologists may ask
Motivation in the work place
Tour of Udacity
Introduction to extrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation in the workplace
Extrinsic rewards
Intrinsic motivation
Perceived organizational support
If you were a manager
Best in the workplace
Motivation to eat
Feeling full
Metabolism
Glucose and hunger
Transport glucose out of blood
Hormones that decrease hunger
Recapping hunger
Brain and hunger
Culture and food
Attitude toward foods
Introducing Dr. Markie Blumer
Western view
Cultural influence on sex
Besides self-exploration
Fantasy and age for sexual experience
Is masturbation normal?
Masturbation and motivation for sex
Switching gears to emotion
Feeling about our experience
Affective experiences
Least likely for an emotional response
Mood and emotion difference
Moods
Affective traits
Seven types of emotions
Basic emotions
Pride
Head and heart
Fear helping adaptation
Emotions
Physiology of emotion
Expression of emotion
Real smile
Introducing Dr. Erika Rosenberg
Universality of emotion expression
Applications of this research
Studying emotion
Week 12:
Lesson 12 Stress and Health
Talking about stress
What is stress
Definition of stress
Stimulus and response
Stressful events
Social readjustment rating scale
Rating life events
Stress beyond the scale
Shower example
Two ways of assessing
How else to respond
Secondary appraisal
Going back to the shower example
Recapping stressors and appraisal
Find the appraisals
Appraisals in another situation
Bodys response to stress
Physiological side of stress
Sympathetic nervous system response
Endocrine system
Two pathways for stress response
Effects from a stressor
HPA axis
Steps of HPA axis
Cortisol
Three stages of stress response
General adaptation syndrome
Stress response in the brain
Cortisols effects in the brain
Effect of stress on memory
Take home message here
Handling stress
Coping with untied shoes and tides
Greg ties his shoes
Emotion focused coping and social support
Lauren distancing herself
Distancing
How would you handle untied shoes
Greg and the tides
Reappraisal
Self control
Who handled the tides better
Emotional disclosure
Recapping how to cope with stress
Different responses to stress
Health and stress
How do you handle stress
Seeing the positive side
Dealing with stress by drug use
Other ways to cope
Eating as a way to cope
Effective way to cope
Exercise
Get out there and exercise
Meditation
Health psychology
Two models
Cardiovascular response
Immune system overview
Inflammation as a sign
Week 13:
Lesson 13 Personality
Describing yourself
Personality
Personality requirements
Measuring personality
What did you rate
Distribution of personality traits
Personality traits
Who is friendlier
Threshold for acting friendly
The Big Five
Openness to experience
Careers for open people
Conscientiousness
Conscientious careers
Extraversion
Jobs for extraverts
Agreeableness
Careers for agreeable people
Neurotics
Jobs for low neuroticism
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
How do we measure personality
Many methods to measure personality
Behavioral observation
Why not rate any person
Inter-rater reliability
Interviews
A projective inkblot test
Unconscious clues to personality
Rorschach tests
Questionnaires
More on questionnaires
Quantitative and qualitative
What influenced your personality
Twin adoption studies
No genetic effect on personality
No environmental effect on personality
Results from twin studies
Strongest environmental influence
Nature, nurture, and personality
Same family, different environments
Biological basis of personality
Introversion, extraversion, and the brain
Pupil dilation test
Different personality theories
Psychoanalytic theory
Humanistic approach
Trait theory
Social-cognitive theory
Personality of Helo
Animals with personality
Which has personality
Research on animal personality
Dr. Zeligs on animal personality
Personality closing points
Week 14:
Lesson 14 Social
Social psychology
Three parts of social
Try this problem
Now try it again
Try it with some help
Try it with a circle
Try the circle again
Try it with a square
Try it with a triangle
Solomon Asch study
Conformity
Social norms
Social influences
Two scenarios
Obedience to authority
Milgram study experimental set up
What do you think were the results
Milgram study results
Ethics of Milgrams deception
Milgram study ethics
Recreated Milgram study
Social perception
Attributions
Two attributions
Think about attribution
Self serving bias
Schemas and stereotypes
Unaware of stereotypes
Gender stereotypes
Stereotype threat
Results from Steele and Aronson
Hockey in group and out group
In-group/out-group bias
Examples of bias
Prejudice
Implicit associations test
Attitudes and affection
Behavioral component
Cognitive component
Attitudes and advertising
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Foot in the door
Hundred dollar donation
Second donation
Cognitive dissonance
Smoking example
Another example of cognitive dissonance
Hostile aggression
Frustration aggresson hypothesis
Instrumental aggression
Biology of aggression
Kitty Genovese case
Darley and Latane study
Bystander effect
Diffusion effect
Cost benefit analysis
Altruism
Reasons for altruism
Empathy
Week 15:
Lesson 15 Psychological Disorders
Psychological disorders
Stigma of mental illness
What constitutes a mental illness
Do not self diagnose
DSM-5
Four Ds
Flying unicorns
Does Kelly have a mental disorder
Disorder classification
Disordered percentage
Prevalence of mental illness
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Autism and Aspberger
Autism spectrum disorder
Causes of ASD
What makes you anxious
Benefits of anxiety
Generalized anxiety disorder
Normal anxieties
Panic disorders
Phobias
Do you have a phobia
Specific phobias
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Biological basis of OCD
Recap PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Continuum for depression
Major depressive disorder
Depressions effects
Nature and nurture in depression
Persistent depressive disorder
Seasonal affective disorder
Postpartum depression
Depression and bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Understanding bipolar disorder
Rapid cycling bipolar
Genetics and environment in bipolar
Dissociative disorders
Somatic symptom disorder
Personality disorder classification
Odd centric and other personality disorders
Histrionic personality disorder
Borderline peresonality disorder
Narcasisstic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Mohammad's personality disorder
Steven's personality disorder
Taylor's personality disorder
Caesar's personality disorder
Eduardo's personality disorder
Schizophrenia
Symptoms of schizophrenia
Disorganized speech
Bizarre behavior
Schizophrenia impairment
Different symptoms of schizophre
Week 16:
Lesson 16 Treatments for Psychological Disorders
Treatments for psychological disorders
Biological treatments
History of drug treatment
Drugs for mood and anxiety
MAOIs and tricyclics
Bupenorphine or wellbutrin
Panic comorbid with major depressive disorder
Use of stimulants
Drugs for schizophrenia
Antipsychotics
Treating positive symptoms
Side effects of antipsychotics
Psychosurgeries like lobotomy
History of lobotomy
Electroconvulsive therapy
rTMS
Summary of biological approach
Psychological treatments
Psychoanalytical therapy
Dealing with low self esteem
Humanistic therapy
Behavioral therapy
Behavioral therapies and token economy
Token economy
Systematic desensitization
Hierarchy of desensitization
Flooding
Aversion therapy
ABA and autism
Cognitive behavioral therapy
CBT revolutionizing treatment
Group therapies
Evidence based treatments
Recap of psychological treatments
Combined approaches
Integrative therapies
MBCT
Dialectical behavior therapy
Summary of combined approaches
How treatments help
This course will teach you critically evaluate psychological research and have a more in-depth understanding of human thought and behavior.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Components:Videos Readings delve into key concepts and scenarios that will help to deepen your understandingInfographicsAssessments (learning checks, end of section assessments, the final assessment, discussion questions, individual reflection, drag and drop exercises, self-assessments, annotation exercises)
Assessments: learning checks, the final assessment, forum discussions.