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Great Ideas in Psychology Podcast

Great Ideas in Psychology Podcast

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Motivation-Achievement and Emotion

Motivation-Achievement and Emotion

What are feelings and why do we sometimes work hard for things that could be easier?

14 Oct 2010

48mins

Ranked #2

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Erik Erikson on Development

Erik Erikson on Development

Erikson’s theory about the social motivation for development covers the lifespan.

28 Sep 2009

37mins

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Cognition-Race, Genetics and Intelligence

Cognition-Race, Genetics and Intelligence

Racial differences in intelligence, test bias, the Terminites, and the Bell Curve.

11 Oct 2010

36mins

Ranked #4

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Sigmund Freud on Development

Sigmund Freud on Development

Freud’s theory is both influential and misunderstood. It’s time to clarify his work.

28 Sep 2009

30mins

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Motivation - Hunger and Eating Disorders

Motivation - Hunger and Eating Disorders

Hunger is a basic motivation for survival that sometimes goes wrong.

28 Sep 2011

31mins

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The Science of Psychology

The Science of Psychology

This lecture covers the scientific thinking that shaped psychology and the three -isms of psychology: empiricism, ration... Read more

20 May 2014

38mins

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Freud on Personality Formation

Freud on Personality Formation

Sigmund Freud explains how your personality is shaped by age 6 and how we can get stuck in the early stages of personali... Read more

4 Apr 2010

33mins

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Humanistic Psychology on Personality

Humanistic Psychology on Personality

Humanistic psychology takes a positive view of human personality and shows how we can tap into our potential to grow as ... Read more

4 Apr 2010

25mins

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The Philosophy of Psychology

The Philosophy of Psychology

This lecture explores some of the great ideas in the history of Western thought (Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato and Aristo... Read more

9 Jan 2009

39mins

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Personality-Trait Theory and Behaviorism

Personality-Trait Theory and Behaviorism

Other theories of personality played down the forces that shape personality and instead focused on describing personalit... Read more

4 Apr 2010

28mins

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Moral Development

Moral Development

How do you learn right from wrong? Moral reasoning makes it clear.

12 Feb 2010

36mins

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Biology - Your Body Affects Your Thoughts

Biology - Your Body Affects Your Thoughts

The basic building blocks of the nervous system explains how changes in your body affect how you think and feel.

9 Jan 2009

37mins

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Consciousness-What Does It Mean To Be You?

Consciousness-What Does It Mean To Be You?

Your consciousness connects you to the past and the present. Here we explore what consciousness means to you.

28 Sep 2009

23mins

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Sensation - Do You See What I See

Sensation - Do You See What I See

The sense of sight is a primary sense used by human beings. Here we explore the amazing eye and its function.

10 Jan 2009

29mins

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Consciousness-Sleep and Dreaming

Consciousness-Sleep and Dreaming

We explore the field of sleep & dreaming and the phenomenon of hypnosis.

28 Sep 2009

28mins

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Axis I Mental Disorders

Axis I Mental Disorders

The most common disorders are Axis 1 disorders, such as anxiety and depression.

26 Jan 2015

47mins

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Social Psych - Social Thinking

Social Psych - Social Thinking

How do you know your place in the world? We will learn about the ways of social thinking that define our identity as ind... Read more

11 Jul 2014

34mins

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Modern Psychotherapy - Humanistic, Gestalt, Cognitive

Modern Psychotherapy - Humanistic, Gestalt, Cognitive

Other approaches to therapy are humanistic, Gestalt, and cognitive therapy.

13 May 2014

32mins

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Modern Psychotherapy-Freud & Behaviorism

Modern Psychotherapy-Freud & Behaviorism

Each school of thought approached psychotherapy in different ways. We start with psychoanalysis and behaviorism.

22 May 2014

30mins

Ranked #20

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Memory - Encoding & Storage

Memory - Encoding & Storage

Memory encodes and stores information about your life. This lecture looks into the types of memory and how memories are ... Read more

28 Sep 2009

30mins

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