Psychology of Human Behavior – David W. Martin

If you’re like most people coming to this fascinating field for the first time, the answer may include a leather couch and a scholarly looking gentleman quietly taking

Psychology of Human Behavior by David W. Martin,
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What comes to mind when you picture a psychologist? If you’re like most people coming to this fascinating field for the first time, the answer may include a leather couch and a scholarly looking gentleman quietly taking notes and occasionally nodding. In some ways, such a picture would be accurate, a confirmation not only of the importance of Sigmund Freud in the history of psychology but also of the degree Freud dominates the popular perception of this discipline.

36 lectures

• Modern Psychology in Historical Context
• Experimentation as a Research Method
• Nonexperimental Research Methods
• Evolutionary Theory and Modern Psychology
• Freud’s Thinking
• Details of Psychoanalytic Theory
• Classification of Mental Illnesses
• Anxiety and Mood Disorders
• Disorders of Brain, Body, Self, Drugs, Sex
• Schizophrenic Disorders
• Childhood, Retardation, Personality Disorders
• Physical Therapies—Drugs
• Physical Therapies—ECT, Surgery, Genes
• Talking Therapies—Psychoanalysis
• Therapies—Humanistic, Cognitive, Group
• Behavior Therapies—Classical Conditioning
• Behavior Therapies—Operant Conditioning
• Models of Motivation
• Emotion—What Do We Measure?
• Emotion—Theories
• Psychoactive Drugs—Processes, Stimulants
• Drugs—Depressants, Narcotics, Hallucinogens
• Social Psychology—Influence and Reciprocity
• Social Psychology—Additional Mechanisms
• Simple Learning—Classical Conditioning
• Simple Learning—Operant Conditioning
• Complex Learning
• Memory—Characteristics
• Memory—Memory Aids and Forgetting Theories
• Perception—Forming Internal Models
• Perception—Finding and Organizing Cues
• Evolutionary Psychology—Basic Concepts
• Evolutionary Psychology—Altruism and Mating
• Evolutionary Psychology—War, Family, Food
• Engineering Psychology
• Recap, Omissions, and Into the Future