Reviews therapy effectiveness and explores happiness, including set points, adaptation, social comparison, and how endings shape memories of pleasure and pain.
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Yale PSYC 110: Introduction to Psychology
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- 01-Introduction
01-Introduction
- 02-Foundations: This Is Your Brain
- 03-Foundations: Freud
- 04-Foundations: Skinner
- 05-What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
- 06-How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
- 07-Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
- 08-Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)
- 09-Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)
- 10-Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
- 11-Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
- 12-Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
- 13-Why Are People Different?: Differences
- 14-What Motivates Us: Sex
- 15-A Person in the World of People: Morality
- 16-A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
- 17-A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter
- 18-What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)
- 19-What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
- 20-The Good Life: Happiness