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Intro to Psychology Lectures

by Dana C. Leighton

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Lectures given to support my Introduction to Psychology courses at Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, USA. This is an "enhanced" podcast, so it includes my presentation slides -- open the Artwork Viewer, if you're on iTunes.

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Episodes

  1. PSY202A Episode 15 - Psychological Disorders Pt 3

    Covers schizophrenia, eating disorders, treatments

  2. PSY202A Episode 14 - Psychological Disorders Pt 2

    Covers mood disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, dissociative disorders, personality disorders

  3. PSY202A Episode 13 - Psychological Disorders Pt 1

    Part 1 of psychological disorders. Covers the concept of abnormality, history, and medical model.

  4. PSY202A Episode 12 - Stress Pt 2

    Theories of stress: Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome; Lazarus's appraisal based model

  5. PSY202A Episode 11 - Stress

    Covers an introduction to stress, including the nervous system and neuroendocrine system

  6. PSY202A Episode 10 - Social Psychology, Pt 3

    Covers groups and social cognition. Also friendship, attraction and romance.

  7. PSY202A Episode 9 - Social Psychology, Pt 2

    Social influences on individual behavior

  8. PSY202A Episode 8 - Social Psychology, Pt 1

    Covers social norms, roles, conformity and obedience. WARNING: audio cuts out before the end of the episode.

  9. PSY202A Episode 7 - Personality, Part 2

    Covers the trait perspective, and social-cognitive perspective.

  10. PSY202A Episode 6 - Personality Pt 1

    Personality Theories - Part 1: Psychodynamic & Humanistic perspectives.

  11. PSY201A Episode 8 - Memory Part 2

    Memory: Errors and retrieval.

  12. PSY201A Episode 7 - Memory part 1 & Bell exercise 2.2

    First half of this episode covers the James Bell workbook exercise 2.2 on how to identify psychological research. Second half covers memory, primarily encoding, storage, and associative networks.

  13. PSY201A Episode 6 - Nervous System & Brain

    Nervous system part 2: glial cells & hormones. Brain structure and function; neuroimaging; hemispheric specialization; brain damage; plasticity.

  14. PSY201A Episode 5 - Nervous system & Neurons

    Nervous system organization & function. Neuroanatomy. action potential process, neurotransmitters & neurotransmission. Psychophysiology lab: muscle unit recruitment.

  15. PSY201A Episode 4 - Systems & Methods

    The scientific method, and methods of experimentation in psychology. Covers independent & dependent variables, control & experimental conditions, sampling, assignment.

  16. PSY201A Episode 3 - History, Systems & Methods Part 1

    This episode covers history of psychology post-renaissance, perspectives in psychology, and begins discussion of systems and methods: Scientific terminology.

  17. PSY201A Episode 2 - Electronic Resources and History of Psychology Part 1

    Covers electronic resources for learning & studying: MyPCC; textbook & MyPsychLab sites; podcast; weblog. Began survey of philosophy of mind-body dualism. Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas.

  18. PSY201A Episode 1 - Course Introduction

    Introduction to my course in introductory psychology. Course policies and procedures. Psychophysiology labs.

  19. PSY202A Episode 5 - Motivation Pt. 2 and Emotion

    This episode covers sex motivation and emotion.

  20. PSY202A Episode 4 - Motivation

    Motivation concepts and principles; Maslow's hierarchy of needs; Instinct; Hunger

  21. PSY202A Episode 3 - Intelligence Part 2

    Intelligence models - Spearman's g factor; Gardner's multiple intelligences; Sternberg's Triarchic theory; Test validity and reliability

  22. PSY202A Episode 2 - Intelligence Part 1

    Intelligence -- basic concepts. Genetic theories of intelligence; Goddard; Kallikak family; Contemporary studies of heredity; Binet; Terman; IQ

  23. PSY202A Episode 1 - Course Introduction

    Introduction to the PSY 202A course - course policies and procedures.

About this show

Lectures given to support my Introduction to Psychology courses at Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, USA. This is an "enhanced" podcast, so it includes my presentation slides -- open the Artwork Viewer, if you're on iTunes.

Hosted by

Dana C. Leighton

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Intro to Psychology Lectures have?

Intro to Psychology Lectures has 23 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on June 4, 2008.

What is Intro to Psychology Lectures about?

Lectures given to support my Introduction to Psychology courses at Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, USA. This is an "enhanced" podcast, so it includes my presentation slides -- open the Artwork Viewer, if you're on iTunes.

How often does Intro to Psychology Lectures release new episodes?

Intro to Psychology Lectures publishes every two weeks, based on its 23 episodes since April 2007.

Who hosts Intro to Psychology Lectures?

Intro to Psychology Lectures is created and hosted by Dana C. Leighton.
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