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General Psychology

Elements of General Psychology

A survey of modern psychology for advanced high-school and college undergraduate students.
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Video Lectures for Discovering Psychology

A series of 26 half-hour lectures from general psychology.

Audio Lectures in Introductory Psychology

Streaming audio lectures from the halls of the psych department at MIT.

Cognitive Psychology

The Mind: Teaching Modules

Unravel the mysteries of the mind with these video teaching modules.

Clinical Psychology

Child Psychology

Essentials of Child Psychology

Studies in the social, emotional, and mental development of children.
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Abnormal Psychology

Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

Eighteen lessons describing how the mind can go wrong and what modern psychology and medicine can do about it.
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A Video Survery of Abnormal Psychology

These thirteen 1-hour videos show how people with diagnosed psychological disorders actually behave. Case studies, enriched with commentary from experts, help demystify the biological, psychological, and environmental causes of dysfunctional behavior.

Sexuality

Essentials of Human Sexuality

This course "... examines the biological, psychological, and social science of human sexuality, provides practical information needed for everyday living, and familiarizes students with research methods used in sexuality."

 

Some of the topics include explicit references to sexual acts that some parents might regard as inapproprate material for younger children.

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What is Psychology?
Adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = "soul" or "mind", logos/-ology = "study of") is an academic and applied field involving the study of mind and behavior. "Psychology" also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness.

Psychology differs from sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science in part because it involves studying the mental processes and behavior of individuals (alone or in groups) rather than the behavior of the groups or aggregates themselves. Psychology differs from biology and neuroscience in that it is primarily concerned with the interaction of mental processes and behavior and of the overall processes of a system, and not simply the biological or neural processes themselves.

Although psychological questions were asked in antiquity (see Aristotle's De Memoria et Reminiscentia or "On Memory and Recollection"), psychology emerged as a separate discipline only recently. The first person to call himself a "psychologist", Wilhelm Wundt, opened the first psychological laboratory in 1879.

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