Great courses (Compact disc)

In 4 containers (19 cm.)

Presents forty-eight lectures tracing the development and evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century

Compact discs

"Course no. 660."

Unabridged

Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University

Lecture 1.

Defining the subject --

lecture 2.

Ancient foundations : Greek philosophers and physicians --

lecture 3.

Minds possessed : witchery and the search for explanations --

lecture 4.

Emergence of modern science : Locke's "Newtonian" theory of mind --

lecture 5.

Three enduring "isms" : empiricism, rationalism, materialism --

lecture 6.

Sensation and perception --

lecture 7.

Visual process --

lecture 8.

Hearing --

lecture 9.

Signal-detection theory --

lecture 10.

Perceptual constancies and illusions --

lecture 11 --

Learning and memory : Associationism, Aristotle to Ebbinghaus --

lecture 12.

Pavlov and the conditioned reflex --

lecture 13.

Watson and American behaviorism --

lecture 14.

B.F. Skinner and modern behaviorism --

lecture 15.

B.F. Skinner and the engineering of society --

lecture 16.

Language --

lecture 17.

Integration of experience --

lecture 18.

Perception and attention --

lecture 19.

Cognitive "maps", "insight" and animal minds --

lecture 20.

Memory revisitied : mnemonics and context --

lecture 21.

Piaget's stage: theory of cognitive development --

lecture 22.

Development of moral reasoning

Lecture 23.

Knowledge, thinking and understanding --

lecture 24.

Comprehending the world of experience : cognition summarized --

lecture 25.

Psychobiology : nineteenth century foundations --

lecture 26.

Language and the brain --

lecture 27.

Rationality, problem-solving and brain function --

lecture 28.

"Emotional brain" : the limbic system --

lecture 29.

Violence and the brain --

lecture 30.

Psychopathology : the medical model --

lecture 31.

Artificial intelligence and the neurocognitive revolution --

lecture 32.

Is artificial intelligence "intelligent?" --

lecture 33.

What makes an event "social"? --

lecture 34.

Socialization : Darwin and the "natural history" method --

lecture 35.

Freud's debts to Darwin --

lecture 36.

Freud, Breuer and the theory of repression --

lecture 37.

Freud's theory of psychosexual development --

lecture 38.

Critiques of Freudian theory --

lecture 39.

What is personality? --

lecture 40.

Obedience and conformity --

lecture 41.

Altruism --

lecture 42.

Prejudice and self-deception --

lecture 43.

On being sane in insane places --

lecture 44.

Intelligence --

lecture 45.

Personality traits and the problem of assessment --

lecture 46.

Genetic psychology and "The bell curve" --

lecture 47.

Psychological and biological determinism --

lecture 48.

Civic development: psychology, the person and the Polis