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1. About This Course
2. Preface
3. Request Access
4. Introduction to Psychology
5. What Is Psychology?
6. Tutorial: Psychology's Timeline
7. History of Psychology
8. Subfields within Psychology
9. Careers in Psychology
10. Video: Intro to Psychology
11. Psychological Perspectives
12. Introduction to Psychological Research
13. Why Is Research Important?
14. Tutorial: What's Wrong With This Study?
15. Approaches to Research
16. Video: Psychological Research
17. Analyzing Findings
18. Ethics
19. Lecture: Psychological Research
20. Statistical Thinking
21. Additional Resources on Psychological Research
22. Introduction to Biospychology
23. Human Genetics
24. Video: The Chemical Mind
25. Cells of the Nervous System
26. Parts of the Nervous System
27. Video: Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain
28. The Brain and Spinal Cord
29. The Endocrine System
30. Video: A Split Brain
31. Tutorial: The Brain and Behavior
32. Additional Resources on Biopsychology
33. Introduction to State of Consciousness
34. What Is Consciousness?
35. Video: Consciousness
36. Sleep and Why We Sleep
37. Stages of Sleep
38. Video: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
39. Sleep Problems and Disorders
40. Substance Use and Abuse
41. Resource: Rat Park and Addiction
42. Resource: The Mind on Drugs
43. Other States of Consciousness
44. Video: Altered States
45. Additional Resources on States of Consciousness*
46. Introduction to Sensation and Perception
47. Sensation versus Perception
48. Video: Sensation & Perception
49. Waves and Wavelengths
50. Vision
51. Lecture: Vision
52. Hearing
53. The Other Senses
54. Video: Homunculus
55. Pain
56. Gestalt Principles of Perception
57. Video: Perceiving is Believing
58. Multi-Modal Perception
59. Resource: Sensation Lab
60. Additional Resources on Sensation and Perception*
61. Introduction to Learning
62. What Is Learning?
63. Classical Conditioning
64. Tutorial: Classical Conditioning
65. Operant Conditioning
66. Tutorial: Operant Conditioning
67. Video: Classical vs. Operant Conditioning
68. Video: Reinforcement vs. Punishment
69. Video: How to Train a Brain
70. Observational Learning (Modeling)
71. Video: The Bobo Beatdown
72. Video: Schedules of Reinforcement
73. Additional Resources on Learning
74. Introduction
75. What Is Cognition?
76. Video: Cognition—How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You
77. Language
78. Video: Language
79. Language and Language Use
80. Problem Solving
81. What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
82. Measures of Intelligence
83. Video: Controversy of Intelligence
84. The Source of Intelligence
85. Video: The Growth of Knowledge
86. Video: Brains vs. Bias
87. Video: Battle of the Brains
88. Additional Resources on Thinking and Intelligence*
89. Introduction to Memory
90. Lecture: Memory
91. How Memory Functions
92. Video: How We Make Memories
93. Parts of the Brain Involv