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A railway foreman survived an iron rod through his skull and, his friends said, came back a different man. A Russian scientist set out to study digestion and ended up teaching dogs to drool at the tick of a metronome. Ordinary volunteers at Yale kept pressing switches they believed were hurting a stranger, simply because a calm man in a lab coat told them to. Psychology is full of stories like these, and each one reveals something about all of us.

In this course you will follow the field from Wundt's first laboratory to today's research on the brain. You will learn how we perceive, learn and remember, why memory is less like a recording than we assume, how children grow into adults, and what drives emotion, motivation and personality. You will meet the classic experiments on conformity, obedience and prejudice, along with the debates that now surround them, and finish with mental health, treatment and the science of living well.

Levels

  1. 1 1. What Psychology Is: From Philosophy to Science 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. The Brain, the Senses and Perception 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. How We Learn: Conditioning and Imitation 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Memory: How We Remember and Forget 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Development: Growing Up and Growing Older 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Emotion, Motivation and Personality 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Social Psychology: The Power of the Situation 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Mental Health, Treatment and Wellbeing 5-question quiz

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