Learn psychology at the beginner's level

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Science Of Psychology.

Lecture 1: Preview

Lecture 2: Introduction To Psychology And The History Of Psychology.

Lecture 3: Discovery of a new subject- Psychology.

Lecture 4: Various Professions In The Field Of Psychology.

Lecture 5: The 3 Influential Approaches.

Lecture 6: The 7 Modern Perspectives.

Lecture 7: The 5 Steps Used In Scientific Research.

Lecture 8: Methods Used To Carry Out Scientific Research.

Lecture 9: How Is An Experiment Conducted In Psychology?

Lecture 10: Correlation – A Technique Used In Measuring Relationship Between 2 Variables.

Lecture 11: Problems Faced While Conducting An Experiment and What Is Its Root Cause?

Lecture 12: Ethical Guidelines Taken Into Consideration While Dealing With People.

Lecture 13: Importance Of Critical Thinking.

Lecture 14: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 15: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective.

Lecture 1: Structure of the Neuron: The Nervous System's Building Block.

Lecture 2: What is Action Potential?

Lecture 3: What is Neurotransmission?

Lecture 4: 2nd part of Neurotransmission.

Lecture 5: The Central Nervous System.

Lecture 6: The Peripheral Nervous System

Lecture 7: Pituitary Gland : Master of the hormonal universe

Lecture 8: Roles of various Endocrine Glands.

Lecture 9: Lesioning Studies and Brain Stimulation.

Lecture 10: Neuroimaging Techniques.

Lecture 11: The Hindbrain

Lecture 12: The lymbic system in the brain.

Lecture 13: The 4 lobes of the brain.

Lecture 14: 2 parts of the cortex that are involved in Language.

Lecture 15: The Cerebral Hemispheres: Left Hemisphere and Right Hemisphere.

Lecture 16: what are the various causes of Attention Deficit Hyperativity Disorder.

Lecture 17: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 18: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 3: Learning.

Lecture 1: What is learning?

Lecture 2: How Classical Conditioning is useful in learning?

Lecture 3: Several criterians and certain concepts in Classical Conditioning

Lecture 4: How can classical conditioning be applied to human behavior?

Lecture 5: What is Law of Effect and Operant Conditioning?

Lecture 6: Applying Operant Conditioning to human behavior.

Lecture 7: The Concept Of Reinforcement.

Lecture 8: What are the 4 schedules of reinforcement?

Lecture 9: Effects of Punishment on human behavior.

Lecture 10: The concept of "Latent Learning".

Lecture 11: Insight Learning in Animals.

Lecture 12: Learned Helplessness observed in Dogs.

Lecture 13: Observational Learning.

Lecture 14: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 15: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 4: Memory

Lecture 1: What is memory and the 3 processes of memory?

Lecture 2: Sensory Memory

Lecture 3: Short-Term Memory

Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory.

Lecture 5: Effects of cues on Memory Retrieval.

Lecture 6: Recall and Recognition.

Lecture 7: How some memories are automatically encoded in the long-term memory?

Lecture 8: Describe the curve of forgetting.

Lecture 9: What are the common reasons that people forget?

Lecture 10: The Neuroscience Of memory and the biological causes of Amnesia

Lecture 11: Continuation of the biological causes of Amnesia.

Lecture 12: Explain how sleep, diet, and exercise affect memory?

Lecture 13: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 14: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 5: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence and Language.

Lecture 1: What is a thought and the difference between thought and thinking?

Lecture 2: How mental images are involved in the process of thinking?

Lecture 3: How Concepts and Prototypes influence our thinking?

Lecture 4: Methods that can be used in solving problems and making decisions.

Lecture 5: What are the common barriers in successful problem solving?

Lecture 6: What is creativity?

Lecture 7: Theories of Intelligence.

Lecture 8: Continuation of Theories Of Intelligence.

Lecture 9: Various methods used to measure intelligence of an individual.

Lecture 10: How can we evaluate the quality of Intelligence tests?

Lecture 11: What is Intellectual Disability, Giftedness and Emotional Intelligence mean?

Lecture 12: What is Language and the different elements and structure of language?

Lecture 13: How Language develops?

Lecture 14: What is the relationship between language and thought?

Lecture 15: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 16: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 6: Motivation And Emotion

Lecture 1: What is Motivation?

Lecture 2: 2 approaches to understanding motivation.

Lecture 3: McClelland's Theory Of Motivation.

Lecture 4: Arousal and Incentive theory of motivation.

Lecture 5: How Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Self-Determination Theory explain motivation

Lecture 6: Physiological and Social factors of hunger.

Lecture 7: Factors contributing to obesity.

Lecture 8: The 3 Elements of Emotion.

Lecture 9: Continuation of the 3 elements of emotion.

Lecture 10: Various Theories Of Emotions.

Lecture 11: Lets get started for the quiz . The questions are in the desciption box

Lecture 12: Answers of the quiz are in the description box.

Chapter 7: Theories Of Personality.

Lecture 1: Freud's conception of personality.

Lecture 2: Continuation of Freud's conception of personality.

Lecture 3: 5 psychosexual stages of personality development.