Sexual motivation promotes the continuance of the species, as well as being a lot of fun.

Sexual Motivation PT2

A few personal notes about what creating this podcast has meant to me, how it was done, and a thank you to everyone who listened.

Behind the Scenes (or Sounds) with Professor Todd

The class concludes with an upbeat lecture about how we are attracted to each other, how we help each other and what makes us fall in love.

Social Psych - Liking and Loving

We explore the dark side of human nature questioning how and why evil occurs and how each of us can act heroically to stop it.

Social Psych - Compliance, Obedience, and Evil

Personality disorders are deeply rooted, maladaptive characteristics of personality that are not easily changed.

Axis II Personality Disorders

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

Axis I Mental Disorders

Your most powerful sex organ is your brain. We discuss the biology and physiology of an important topic.

Sexual Development & Gender PT1

Our attitudes shape our behavior, and vice versa. We want our behavior to match our beliefs.

Social Psych - Attitudes, Behavior, & Cognitive Dissonance

How do you know your place in the world? We will learn about the ways of social thinking that define our identity as individuals and as members of social groups.

Social Psych - Social Thinking

What does positive psychology teach us how to live happier, healthier and more fully?

Health - Living Life Well

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Great Ideas in Psychology Podcast

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

Motivation-Achievement and Emotion

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

Erik Erikson on Development

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

Cognition-Race, Genetics and Intelligence

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

Sigmund Freud on Development

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

Motivation - Hunger and Eating Disorders

This lecture covers the scientific thinking that shaped psychology and the three -isms of psychology: empiricism, rationalism, and materialism.

The Science of Psychology

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

Freud on Personality Formation

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

Humanistic Psychology on Personality

This lecture explores some of the great ideas in the history of Western thought (Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and their contributions to the field of psychology.

The Philosophy of Psychology

Other theories of personality played down the forces that shape personality and instead focused on describing personality as it really exists in human beings.

Personality-Trait Theory and Behaviorism

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

Moral Development

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

Biology - Your Body Affects Your Thoughts

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

Consciousness-What Does It Mean To Be You?

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

Sensation - Do You See What I See

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

Consciousness-Sleep and Dreaming

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

Modern Psychotherapy - Humanistic, Gestalt, Cognitive

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

Modern Psychotherapy-Freud & Behaviorism

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

Memory - Encoding & Storage

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