Psychology · Video course

Introduction to Psychology

with Paul Bloom · Yale University · 20 lessons · about 19 hours of video

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Yale's most loved introduction to the field: Paul Bloom's full semester on the science of the mind, from Freud and Skinner to language, emotion, morality, mental illness, and what makes a good life.

Press play on any lesson and it plays right here, in order, top to bottom. The videos live on YouTube, so the creators keep every view and all the credit.

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1. Introduction

30 min
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2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain

53 min
3

3. Foundations: Freud

57 min
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4. Foundations: Skinner

59 min
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5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

49 min
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6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth

57 min
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7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language

1h
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8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past:

1h
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9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Dr. Peter Salovey)

1h 10m
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10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

1h
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11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

53 min
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12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

56 min
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13. Why Are People Different?: Differences

1h 06m
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14. What Motivates Us: Sex

53 min
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15. A Person in the World of People: Morality

1h 01m
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16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

58 min
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17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II;

1h 05m
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18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I

54 min
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19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

57 min
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20. The Good Life: Happiness

48 min

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