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1.3 Contemporary Psychology
Introduction
Course Registration
Announcements
Pre-Test
Module 1: Lesson 1: Definition and Development of Psychology
What Is Psychology?
History of Psychology
Fields of psychology to consider for your career
Careers in Psychology
Module 1: Lesson 2: Research and Ethics in Psychology
2.1 Why Is Research Important?
Methods of Psychology
2.4 Ethics
Peer Activity 1 - Importance and Ethics of Psychological Research [280 minutes]
Module 2: Lesson 1: The structure and function of Nervous system
3.2 Cells of the Nervous System
Impacts of Drugs on Neurotransmission
The Neuroscience of Addiction - with Marc Lewis
3.3 Parts of the Nervous System
3.4 The Brain and Spinal Cord
The Tools That Let Neuroscientists Study (and Even Repair) Brain Circuits
Module 2: Lesson 2: Biological Influences in Psychology
3.5 The Endocrine System
3.1 Human Genetics
What is an Environmental Factor?
1.3 Contemporary Psychology
11.7 Gene Regulation: Operon Theory: Sections Prokaryotic Gene Regulation and rokaryotic Gene Regulation
Peer Activity 2: Biological Influences in Psychology (278 minutes)
Module 3: Lesson 1: The functions of perception and sensation
5.1 Sensation versus Perception
5.6 Gestalt Principles of Perception
Sensory Perception
Psychophysics .
Psychophysical Methods
Module 3: Lesson 2: Sensory Processing and Sensing the Environment (Vision, hearing and other senses)
14.2 Central Processing: Sensory Pathways (Section)
5.2 Waves and Wavelengths
5.3 Vision
5.4 Hearing
The Other Senses
14.1 Sensory Perception
Chapter Review
The Vestibular Sense
Peer Activity 3: Perception and Sensation (360 minutes)
Module 4: Lesson 1: Definition of Consciousness and Alertness and Types of Attention (Selective and Divided)
4.1 What Is Consciousness?
Module 4: Lesson 2: The normal sleep and its disorders.
4.2 Sleep and Why We Sleep
4.3 Stages of Sleep
Circadian Rhythm: What it is, what shapes it, and why it’s fundamental to getting quality sle
4.4 Sleep Problems and Disorders
Module 4: Lesson 3: Altering Consciousness.
4.5 Substance Use and Abuse
4.6 Other States of Consciousness
Peer Activity 4: Consciousness (455 minutes)
Module 5: Lesson 1: Developmental Milestones in the stages of human development.
9.3 Stages of Development: Sub-section Pre-natal development
9.3 Stages of Development: Adolescence
9.3 Stages of Development: Adulthood:
Discussion Forum 1: Human Lifespan Development (285 minutes)
Module 6: Lesson 1: Types of Learning in Psychology
6.1 What Is Learning?
6.2 Classical Conditioning
6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)
Types of learning Simple nonassociative learning
Discussion Forum 2: Habituation and Dishabituation (204 minutes)
A review of the characteristics, mechanisms, and clinical significance in fetuses and new born infants
Module 7: Lesson 1: Motivation, Emotion and the physiological needs that drive human behavior
10.1 Motivation
10.2 Hunger and Eating
10.3 Sexual Behavior
10.4 Emotion
Discussion Forum 3: On Sexual Behavior and Motivation, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (245 minutes)
Module 8: Lesson 1: Cognition
7.1 What Is Cognition?
Information Processing Theories
9.2 Lifespan Theories: Cognitive Theory of Development
9.3 Stages of Development: Adulthood: Cognitive Development (Sub-section)
Cognitive Development
3.1 Human Genetics: Dig Deeper (Sub-section)
Genetic influence on cognitive development between childhood and adulthood
Discussion Forum 4: Informing Processing and Human Memory (315 minutes)
Information Processing and Human Memory
Module 8: Lesson 2: Thinking and Intelligence
7.3 Problem Solving
7.4 Intelligence and Creativity
7.5 Measures of Intelligence
Is intelligence determined by genetics?
7.6 The Source of Intelligence
Module 8: Lesson 3: Language
7.2 Language
7. Language Development: Promoting Speaking, Listening & Communicating
Module 9: Lesson 1: Types of memory and their functions
8.1 How Memory Functions
9.1 Memories as Types and Stages
Module 9: Lesson 2: Memory Problems, Forgetfulness, and Aging
8.3 Problems with Memory
8.3 Problems with Memory
Memory, Forgetfulness, and Aging: What's Normal and What's Not?
Memory loss
Get the facts about memory loss
Discussion Forum 5: Memory Problems (295 minutes)
Memory dysfunction
Module 9: Lesson 3: The role of memory in learning and retrieval methods
How Memory Works
Memory Retrieval: Recognition and Recall
Context and State Dependent Memory
3.2 Cells of the Nervous System
Brain and The Spinal Cord
Neuroplasticity.
8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory
Peer Activity 5: The Role of Memory in Learning and Retrieval Methods (340 minutes)
Neural Plasticity
Module 10: Lesson 1: Definition and theories of personality.
11.1 What Is Personality?
11.2 Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
11.3 Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
11.4 Learning Approaches
11.5 Humanistic Approaches
11.6 Biological Approaches
11.7 Trait Theorists
Module 10: Lesson 2: Personality in the context of culture and personality assessment
11.8 Cultural Understandings of Personality
11.9 Personality Assessment
Peer Activity 6: Personality in the Context of Culture, Personality Assessment, and Evolutionary Perspective (481 minutes)
Module 11: Lesson 1: Health psychology and stress
14.1 What Is Stress?
14.2 Stressors
14.3 Stress and Illness
14.4 Regulation of Stress
14.5 The Pursuit of Happiness
Discussion Forum 6: Positive Psychology (260 minutes)
Module 12: Lesson 1: Introduction to Psychological Disorders
15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
15.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
Module 12: Lesson 2: Classification of Psychological disorders
15.4 Anxiety Disorders
15.5 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
15.6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15.7 Mood Disorders
Mental Health Disorder Statistics
15.8 Schizophrenia
15.9 Dissociative Disorders
15.10 Disorders in Childhood
15.11 Personality Disorders
Peer Activity 7: Schizophrenia as a Mental Health Disorder (365 minutes)
Module 13: Lesson 1: Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Social Norms
Module 13: Lesson 2: Mental Health Therapy and Treatments; evolution, types, and modes of treatment.
16.1 Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
16.2 Types of Treatment
16.3 Treatment Modalities
16.4 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
16.5 The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
Peer Activity 8: Mental Health Therapy and Treatments (300 minutes)
Module 14: Lesson 1: Definition of Social Psychology
12.1 What Is Social Psychology?
Module 14: Lesson 2: Determinants of Social behavior
12.2 Self-presentation
12.3 Attitudes and Persuasion
4.3 Agents of Socialization
12.4 Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
Discussion Forum 7: Agents of Socialization (365 minutes)
What Is Social Thinking: Three Parts of Social Thinking
Module 15: Lesson 1: The role of Psychology in the Workplace
13.1 What Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
13.2 Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees
13.4 Human Factors Psychology and Workplace Design
Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work
Discussion Forum 8: The Role of Psychology in the Workplace (360 minutes)
Module 16: Lesson 1: Introduction to Counseling Psychology
Counseling Psychology
Better relationships with patients lead to better outcomes
Discussion Forum 9: Counseling Relationships (385 minutes)
Final Activity
Final Activity: Introduction to Psychology (410 minutes)
Final Exam
Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate
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Peer Activities
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Course Registration
Announcements
Pre-Test
What Is Psychology?
History of Psychology
Fields of psychology to consider for your career
Careers in Psychology
2.1 Why Is Research Important?
Methods of Psychology
2.4 Ethics
Peer Activity 1 - Importance and Ethics of Psychological Research [280 minutes]
3.2 Cells of the Nervous System
Impacts of Drugs on Neurotransmission
The Neuroscience of Addiction - with Marc Lewis
3.3 Parts of the Nervous System
3.4 The Brain and Spinal Cord
The Tools That Let Neuroscientists Study (and Even Repair) Brain Circuits
3.5 The Endocrine System
3.1 Human Genetics
What is an Environmental Factor?
11.7 Gene Regulation: Operon Theory: Sections Prokaryotic Gene Regulation and rokaryotic Gene Regulation
Peer Activity 2: Biological Influences in Psychology (278 minutes)
5.1 Sensation versus Perception
5.6 Gestalt Principles of Perception
Sensory Perception
Psychophysics .
Psychophysical Methods
14.2 Central Processing: Sensory Pathways (Section)
5.2 Waves and Wavelengths
5.3 Vision
5.4 Hearing
The Other Senses
14.1 Sensory Perception
Chapter Review
The Vestibular Sense
Peer Activity 3: Perception and Sensation (360 minutes)
4.1 What Is Consciousness?
4.2 Sleep and Why We Sleep
4.3 Stages of Sleep
Circadian Rhythm: What it is, what shapes it, and why it’s fundamental to getting quality sle
4.4 Sleep Problems and Disorders
4.5 Substance Use and Abuse
4.6 Other States of Consciousness
Peer Activity 4: Consciousness (455 minutes)
9.3 Stages of Development: Sub-section Pre-natal development
9.3 Stages of Development: Adolescence
9.3 Stages of Development: Adulthood:
Discussion Forum 1: Human Lifespan Development (285 minutes)
6.1 What Is Learning?
6.2 Classical Conditioning
6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)
Types of learning Simple nonassociative learning
Discussion Forum 2: Habituation and Dishabituation (204 minutes)
A review of the characteristics, mechanisms, and clinical significance in fetuses and new born infants
10.1 Motivation
10.2 Hunger and Eating
10.3 Sexual Behavior
10.4 Emotion
Discussion Forum 3: On Sexual Behavior and Motivation, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (245 minutes)
7.1 What Is Cognition?
Information Processing Theories
9.2 Lifespan Theories: Cognitive Theory of Development
9.3 Stages of Development: Adulthood: Cognitive Development (Sub-section)
Cognitive Development
3.1 Human Genetics: Dig Deeper (Sub-section)
Genetic influence on cognitive development between childhood and adulthood
Discussion Forum 4: Informing Processing and Human Memory (315 minutes)
Information Processing and Human Memory
7.3 Problem Solving
7.4 Intelligence and Creativity
7.5 Measures of Intelligence
Is intelligence determined by genetics?
7.6 The Source of Intelligence
7.2 Language
7. Language Development: Promoting Speaking, Listening & Communicating
8.1 How Memory Functions
9.1 Memories as Types and Stages
8.3 Problems with Memory
8.3 Problems with Memory
Memory, Forgetfulness, and Aging: What's Normal and What's Not?
Memory loss
Get the facts about memory loss
Discussion Forum 5: Memory Problems (295 minutes)
Memory dysfunction
How Memory Works
Memory Retrieval: Recognition and Recall
Context and State Dependent Memory
3.2 Cells of the Nervous System
Brain and The Spinal Cord
Neuroplasticity.
8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory
Peer Activity 5: The Role of Memory in Learning and Retrieval Methods (340 minutes)
Neural Plasticity
11.1 What Is Personality?
11.2 Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
11.3 Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
11.4 Learning Approaches
11.5 Humanistic Approaches
11.6 Biological Approaches
11.7 Trait Theorists
11.8 Cultural Understandings of Personality
11.9 Personality Assessment
Peer Activity 6: Personality in the Context of Culture, Personality Assessment, and Evolutionary Perspective (481 minutes)
14.1 What Is Stress?
14.2 Stressors
14.3 Stress and Illness
14.4 Regulation of Stress
14.5 The Pursuit of Happiness
Discussion Forum 6: Positive Psychology (260 minutes)
15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
15.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
15.4 Anxiety Disorders
15.5 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
15.6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15.7 Mood Disorders
Mental Health Disorder Statistics
15.8 Schizophrenia
15.9 Dissociative Disorders
15.10 Disorders in Childhood
15.11 Personality Disorders
Peer Activity 7: Schizophrenia as a Mental Health Disorder (365 minutes)
Abnormal Psychology
Social Norms
16.1 Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
16.2 Types of Treatment
16.3 Treatment Modalities
16.4 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
16.5 The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
Peer Activity 8: Mental Health Therapy and Treatments (300 minutes)
12.1 What Is Social Psychology?
12.2 Self-presentation
12.3 Attitudes and Persuasion
4.3 Agents of Socialization
12.4 Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
Discussion Forum 7: Agents of Socialization (365 minutes)
What Is Social Thinking: Three Parts of Social Thinking
13.1 What Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
13.2 Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees
13.4 Human Factors Psychology and Workplace Design
Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work
Discussion Forum 8: The Role of Psychology in the Workplace (360 minutes)
Counseling Psychology
Better relationships with patients lead to better outcomes
Discussion Forum 9: Counseling Relationships (385 minutes)
Final Activity: Introduction to Psychology (410 minutes)
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