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Lecture 16 – A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I This is the first of two lectures on social psychology, the study of how we think about ourselves, other people, and social groups. Students will hear about the famous "six degrees of separation" phenomenon and how it illuminates important individual differences [...] Lecture 15 – A Person in the World of People: Morality Professor Bloom provides an introduction to psychological theories of morality. Students will learn how research in psychology has helped answer some of the most central questions about human morality. For instance, which emotions are "moral" and why did these moral feelings evolve? Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: Evolution and Gender Lecture 14 – Psychology, Sex, and Evolution This lecture reviews what evolutionary theories and recent studies in psychology can tell us about sex and gender differences. Students will hear how psychology can help explain many of the differences that exist in whom we find attractive, what we desire in a [...] Lecture 13 – Why Are People Different?: Differences Why are people different from one another? This lecture addresses this question by reviewing the latest theories and research in psychology on two traits in particular: personality and intelligence. Students will hear about how these traits are measured, why they may differ across individuals and groups, and whether [...] Lecture 11 – Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I This class is an introduction to the evolutionary analysis of human emotions, how they work, why they exist, and what they communicate. In particular, this lecture discusses three interesting case studies, that of happiness (e.g., smiling), fear and the emotions we feel towards our relatives. Finally, [...] Lecture 10 – Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality This lecture introduces students to the study of psychology from an evolutionary perspective, the idea that like the body, natural selection has shaped the development of the human mind. Prominent arguments for and against the theory of natural selection and its relationship to human psychology are [...] Lecture 7 – Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory This lecture finishes the discussion of language by briefly reviewing two additional topics: communication systems in non-human primates and other animals, and the relationship between language and thought. The majority of this lecture is then spent on introducing students to [...] Lecture 6 – How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands One of the most uniquely human abilities is the capacity for creating and understanding language. This lecture introduces students to the major topics within the study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and recursion. This lecture also describes theories of language acquisition, [...] Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: The Development of Thought Lecture 5 – What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children [...] Lecture 4 – Foundations: Skinner Professor Bloom opens with a brief discussion of the value and evolutionary basis of unconscious processing. The rest of this lecture introduces students to the theory of Behaviorism, particularly the work of prominent behaviorist, B. F. Skinner. Different types of learning are discussed in detail, as well as reasons why behaviorism [...]
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