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PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality. This lecture introduces students to the study of psychology from an evolutionary perspective, the idea that like the body, natural selection has shaped the development of the human mind. Prominent arguments for and against the theory of natural selection and its relationship to human psychology are reviewed. Students will hear several examples of how studying mental phenomenon from an evolutionary perspective can help constrain theories in psychology as well as explain many prevalent human instincts that underlie many of our most basic behaviors and decisions. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. The Modern Biological Account of the Origin of Psychological Phenomena
[00:13:35] 2. Avoiding Misconceptions When Applying Evolutionary Theory to Psychology
[00:22:39] 3. Claims against the Evolutionary Psychology
[00:26:42] 4. Ways in Which Evolution Helps Describe the Mind
[00:39:48] 5. Heuristics: Framing Effects, Base Rates, Availability Bias and Confirmation Bias

References
Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
Instructor: Professor Paul Bloom. Resources: PowerPoint Slides from Screen - Lecture 10 [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Foundations: This Is Your Brain
Lecture 03 - Foundations: Freud
Lecture 04 - Foundations: Skinner
Lecture 05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
Lecture 06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and Hands
Lecture 07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Lecture 08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (Cont.)
Lecture 09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love
Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
Lecture 11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
Lecture 12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
Lecture 13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences
Lecture 14 - What Motivates Us: Sex
Lecture 15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality
Lecture 16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
Lecture 17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysterious
Lecture 18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I
Lecture 19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness