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OPTIONAL VIDEOS SECTION

Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Circadian Rhythms
o Sleep and Dreams
o Sleep Deprivation
o Music to Sleep By
 Readings
o How Much Sleep?
o Sleep Cycle App
o School Days
o Why Do We Dream?
o What Are Dreams?
(Nova)
o Freud's Dream
Theories
o Lucid Dreaming
 Readings
o Theories of Dreams
o Neurochemistry of
Dreaming
o Hypnosis in History o The Piaget Channel
o Hypnotherapy o Piaget Documentary
o Self Hypnosis o Piaget on Piaget
o Stage Hypnosis o Vigotsky
 Readings  Readings
o Theories of Hypnosis o Decent Blogpost
o More Theories / o Mindmeister
Divisions Comparison
 o Dream Research
o dreambank.net

Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o The Strange Situation o Multiple Intelligence o PTSD Documentary o Psychology of Love
o Attachment Theory o Beta Blockers o Psychology of
o Consequences of o History of Measuring o Erasing Memories Attraction
o Parenting Styles Intelligence  Readings o Body Language
 Readings o The Genetic Bases of o PTSD and Beta  Readings
o Classic Studies in Dev Intelligence Blockers o Psychology of Love
Psych o Intelligent Machines o BBC Story o Theories of Love
o 10 Crucial Child Psych  Readings
Studies o Controversy
o More Info on
Intelligence

Week 7 – Mental Illness

Week 7 Lecture 1 Week 7 Lecture 2 Week 7 Lecture 3 Week 7 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Stigma of Diagnoses o Panic Attacks
 o DSM iv-TR o World’s Weirdest o Margaret Trudeau o ABC 20-20
Presentation Phobias Interview Schizophrenia
o Over-Diagnosis? o Multiple Personality o Sapolsky on o Four Patients
 Readings Disorder Depression o Childhood
o DSM  Readings o Flight From Darkness Schizophrenia
o Labeling Mental o Obsessive/Compulsive  Readings  Readings
Illness Disorder o Depression Self-Help o Rays of Hope (Family
o Anxiety Disorders o Depression During & Caregivers)
Pregnacy o Signs, Types and
Causes
o Eye Movement
Diagnosis?

Week 7 Lecture 5 Week 7 Lecture 6 Week 7 Lecture 7 Week 7 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o How to Spot a o Insight Therapies o Systematic o Drugs and Therapy
Psychopath Channel Desensitization o Drug vs. Natural
o Personality Disorders o Psychoanalysis o CBT YouTube Therapy
o Personality Disorder (animated) Channel o Lobotomy
Channel o On Becoming a o 10 Minute CGT Documentary
 Readings Person Strategies o Electroconvulsive
o Types of Personality  Readings  Readings Shock
Disorders o Insight Oriented o What is CBT?  Readings
o Psychopath versus Therapy o CBT for Depression o Biological Treatments
Sociopath o Eliza, Free Humanist o The Roots of Mental
Therapy! Illness
 o Modern o Effectiveness of
Psychoanalysis Biological Treatments

Week 6 – The Social Mind

Week 6 Lecture 1 Week 6 Lecture 2 Week 6 Lecture 3 Week 6 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Asch Conformity o Milgram Experiment o Self-Serving Bias o Stanford Prison
Experiment o Original Milgram o Locus of Control Experiment
o Elevator Conformity Experiment o Belief in a Just o Psychology of Evil
 Readings:  Readings: World (Zimbardo)
o Conformity in the o Political Authority,  Readings:  Readings:
Workplace Philosophically … o Self-Serving Bias o Stanford Prison
o Asch Experiment o What Milgram’s o Depression and Locus Experiment Website
Experiments Really of Control o BBC Afterstory
… o Just World

Week 6 Lecture 5 Week 6 Lecture 6 Week 6 Lecture 7 Week 6 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Kitty Genovese o Stereotypes in Child o The Roots of o First Impressions
Case Entertainment Discrimination o Why Sexy is Sexy
o Baby Left in Car  Readings:
 Readings: o Gender Stereotypes in o Brown Eyes, Blue o Average is Beautiful
o Diffusion of the Media Eyes o Attraction (Psychology
Responsibility o “Crash” Café Scene  Readings: Today)
o Bystander and  Readings: o The Robbers Cave
Diffusion of o Schema Theory Paper Experiment
Responsibility o Stereotype Examples o Another Robbers
Cave Description

Week 5 - Memory

Week 5 Lecture 1 Week 5 Lecture 2 Week 5 Lecture 3 Week 5 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o T Asch Conformity o US Memoriad Story o Loftus and Palmer o False Memory (Loftus)
Experiment ulving o Feats of Memory (1979) o Creating False
Student Project o Memory Palace o Loftus Eyewitness Memories
o Memory Documentary  Readings: Testimony o My Lie: A True Story
o Baddeley o Top 10 Ways to o Podcast on Sir of FM
 Readings: Improve Your Memory Frederic  Readings:
o Multiple Memory o Moonwalking with  Readings: o DRM False Memory
Systems Einstein o The Splintered Mind Lists
o Working Memory o Try the Experiment
 o Random Word o Reconstructive
Generator Memory

Week 5 Lecture 5 Week 5 Lecture 6 Week 5 Lecture 7 Week 5 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o déjà vu and other o Mere Exposure Effect o Clive and Henry o Larry Squire
universes o Familiarity and Channel o Sleep and Procedural
o What is déjà vu Attractiveness o Shameless Plug Memory
 Readings:  Readings:  Readings: o Involuntary Memory
o Chronic déjà vu? o Familiarity and o Mystery Toronto  Readings:
o How stuff works (déjà Purchasing Woman o Claparede and
vu) o Polioptics o Forever Today Education
o Shameless Plug

Week 4 - Learning

Week 4 Lecture 1 Week 4 Lecture 2 Week 4 Lecture 3 Week 4 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Artificial vs. Natural o Classical Conditioning o Konrad Lorenz o Operant Conditioning
Selection (Zimbardo) (Imprinting) o Operant Conditioning
o Scientific Racism o Classical Conditioning o Habituation for Dogs (Big Bang)
o From Darwin to Hitler (College)
 o Twin Studies o Little Albert o Real World Classical o Skinner on
 Readings:  Readings: Conditioning Consciousness
o Twin Research and o Nobel Prize (1904)  Readings:  Readings:
Human Genetics o Classical Conditioning o Advertising and o Training Animals
o Nature vs. Nurture Classical Conditioning o Classical vs. Operant
o Classical Conditioning (TedEd)
Superbowl Ads

Week 4 Lecture 5 Week 4 Lecture 6 Week 4 Lecture 7 Week 4 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos  Videos  Videos

o Gambling and o Skinner & Superstition o Project Nim Trailor o Mirror Neurons
Conditioning o Same (but Derren o Koko and Robin o Bobo Doll Experiment
o Play to Extinction Brown style) Williams o Octopus are
o Flirting Expert o Superstitious (Stevie o Naom Chomsky Fascinating
PodCast Wonder) against Skinner o Modeling Teaching
 Readings:  Readings:  Readings:  Readings:
o Gambling and o Skinner’s Paper o Animal Language o Original Bobo Paper
Conditioning Ph.D. Controversy (Christopher Green)
o Slot Machines and o Thesis on Animal o Explorable (Bobo
Conditioning Communication Experiment)

Week 3 – Sensation, Perception, Attention and Awareness

Week 3 Lecture 1 Week 3 Lecture 2 Week 3 Lecture 3 Week 3 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos:  Videos:

o Phantom Limb o Rods and Cones (Inter o Sensation & o Visual Agnosia
(Ramachandran) Bio) Perception o Prosopagnosia
o Phantom Limb o Sound and the Ear o Gestalt Principles o Capgras Delusions
(Sacks) (Inter Bio) (German Style) o Template and
o Mirror Therapy  Readings: o Perception (The reality Prototype Theory
 Readings: o Vision beyond …)  Readings:
o Illusions o More Afterimages  Readings: o Visual Object
o Gestalt Principles & Recognition
Design
o More Gestalt
Principles

Week 3 Lecture 5 Week 3 Lecture 6 Week 3 Lecture 7 Week 3 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos:  Videos:  Videos:

o Learning From Babies o Selective Attention o Mirror Self o The False Belief Test
o Depth Perception o Change Blindness Recognition o Theory of Mind in
(Visual Cliff) o Change Blindness o Self Recognition in Animals
o Perception for Robots (outside the lab) Apes o TED Talk (Sax)
o Alice in Wonderland o Body Language o Mirror Test YouTube  Readings:
Syndrome  Readings: Channel o Theory of Mind
 Readings: o Try Dichotic Listening  Readings:
 o What vs. Where o More Cool Demos o When the Self o Empathy, Theory of
(Wikipedia) Emerges Mind
o Depth Perception Test

Week 2 – Matter of the Mind

Week 2 Lecture 1 Week 2 Lecture 2 Week 2 Lecture 3 Week 2 Lecture 4

 Videos  Videos  Videos:  Videos:

o Cocaine and Brain o Divisions of the
o Marijuana and Brain Nervous System
 Readings: o Spicy Black Bean
o The Brain: From Top Casserole
to Bottom  Readings:
o Wikipedia: The Brain o Explore your Nervous
System
o Tutorial (and quizzes)
o Anatomical Tour (Hipp o Sensation and
& Amyg) Perception
o Cool 3D Brain Tour o Occipital Lobe, School
o Amygdala and Anxiety Project
 Readings:  Readings:
o The Primitive Brain o The Man Who Mistook
o What is the His Wife for a Hat
Hippocampus? o Occipital Lobe

Week 2 Lecture 5 Week 2 Lecture 6 Week 2 Lecture 7 Week 2 Lecture 8

 Videos  Videos:  Videos:  Videos:

o Occipital and o Oliver Sacks (TED o The 4 Lobes and o Joe the Split Brain
Temporal Lobes Talk) Function Patient
o Gazzaniga
 o Temporal Lobe o A Visual Neglect o One Flew Over the  Readings:
Epilepsy and God Patient Cuckoo’s o A Tale of Two Halves
 Readings:  Readings: o Parts of the Brain (Nature)
o Temporal Lobe o Parietal Lobe and  Readings: o Split Brain
(Wikipedia) Stroke o Rise and Fall of (Psychology Today)
o Laterality Journal o Sensory Deprivation Frontal Lobotomy
(Free Articles) o Frontal Lobes Bedside
Testing

Week 1 – History & The Scientific Method

Week 1 Lecture 1 Week 1 Lecture 2 Week 1 Lecture 3 Week 1 Lecture 4

 Videos:  Videos:  Videos:  Videos:

o Cartesian Dualism o Visual Souvenir of o Freud’s Psychosexual o Video about
o Galvani's first Helmholtz Development of Behaviourism (Little
experiment o 3 Minute History of Personality Albert Experiment)
o Patrica Churchland on Psychology o Reaction to Freud o History of Psychology
the brain as a o Charles Darwin o Freud Documentary o One Final History!
machine Biography Pt2  Readings:
o God is in the  Readings: o Freud Documentary o Neo-Freudianism
Neurons a very o Hermann von Pt3 o Psychology after
materialistic Helmholtz - 1821 -  Readings: Freud
perspective 1894 o Sigmund Freud - 1856
 Readings: - 1939
 o Philosophical o Ernst Weber - 1795 - o The Complete Works o Behaviorism vs.
Materialism according 1878 Cognitivism
to Wikipedia o Wilhelm Wundt - 1832
o A Suggested Book for - 1920
follow-up reading o Charles Darwin - 1809
- 1882
o Principles of
Psychology

Week 1 Lecture 5 Week 1 Lecture 6 Week 1 Lecture 7

 Videos:  Videos:  Videos:

o Research Methods in o Stanford Marshmallow o Experimental Design
Psych Experiment o Scientific Method
o Observational o Adult Marshmallow  Readings:
Research (Marketing) Test o T-Test
 Readings: o Correlation and o Comparing Two
o Observational Causation Groups
Research  Readings:
o Article about the
Stanford Marshmallow
Experiment
o Measuring
Correlations 1
o Measuring
Correlations 2