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Brief Introduction to Psychology

Brief Introduction to Psychology. Instructor: Prof. Braj Bhushan, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. This course will be helpful in understanding oneself, one's behaviour, and what lie beneath such behaviour. It will help you understand how we understand, feel, and act. Through this brief introduction to psychology we will cruise through some of the major psychological concepts and principles, primarily focusing on the perceptual processes, learning, memory and emotions. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 12 - Cognitive Learning, Learning Curve, Transfer of Learning

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Perception

Lecture 01 - Sensation: Five Basic Senses - Vision, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch

Lecture 02 - Sensation: Limen, Weber's Law, Just Noticeable Difference

Lecture 03 - Theory of Signal Detection

Lecture 04 - Form Perception: Gestalt Principles

Lecture 05 - Form Perception: Monocular Cues, Binocular Cues

Lecture 06 - Culture and Perception

Learning

Lecture 07 - Learning

Lecture 08 - Classical Conditioning

Lecture 09 - Classical Conditioning (cont.)

Lecture 10 - Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)

Lecture 11 - Classical vs Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Social Cognitive Theory

Lecture 12 - Cognitive Learning, Learning Curve, Transfer of Learning

Memory

Lecture 13 - Memory Processes, Information Processing Theory, Sensory Memory (Iconic)

Lecture 14 - Sensory Memory (Echoic), Short-Term Memory, Working Memory

Lecture 15 - Long-Term Memory (Explicit): Episodic Memory, Eyewitness Memory

Lecture 16 - Long-Term Memory (Explicit): Autobiographical Memory, Semantic Memory

Lecture 17 - Long-Term Memory (Implicit): Procedural Memory, Prospective Memory

Lecture 18 - Forgetting, Better Memory

Emotion

Lecture 19 - Theories of Emotion

Lecture 20 - Cognitive Theories: Schacter's Theory

Lecture 21 - Emotions in Infants, Emotion and Memory in Children

Lecture 22 - Culture and Emotion, Facial Expression of Emotion

Lecture 23 - Facial Expressions

Lecture 24 - Activation of Emotion, Appraisal of Emotion