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Psychology of Human Behavior

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Syllabus

01: Modern Psychology in Historical Context
02: Experimentation as a Research Method
03: Nonexperimental Research Methods
04: Evolutionary Theory and Modern Psychology
05: Freud's Thinking
06: Details of Psychoanalytic Theory
07: Classification of Mental Illnesses
08: Anxiety and Mood Disorders
09: Disorders of Brain, Body, Self, Drugs, Sex
10: Schizophrenic Disorders
11: Childhood, Retardation, Personality Disorders
12: Physical Therapies-Drugs
13: Physical Therapies-ECT, Surgery, Genes
14: Talking Therapies-Psychoanalysis
15: Therapies-Humanistic, Cognitive, Group
16: Behavior Therapies-Classical Conditioning
17: Behavior Therapies-Operant Conditioning
18: Models of Motivation
19: Emotion-What Do We Measure?
20: Emotion-Theories
21: Psychoactive Drugs-Processes, Stimulants
22: Drugs-Depressants, Narcotics, Hallucinogens
23: Social Psychology-Influence and Reciprocity
24: Social Psychology-Additional Mechanisms
25: Simple Learning-Classical Conditioning
26: Simple Learning-Operant Conditioning
27: Complex Learning
28: Memory-Characteristics
29: Memory-Memory Aids and Forgetting Theories
30: Perception-Forming Internal Models
31: Perception-Finding and Organizing Cues
32: Evolutionary Psychology-Basic Concepts
33: Evolutionary Psychology-Altruism and Mating
34: Evolutionary Psychology-War, Family, Food
35: Engineering Psychology
36: Recap, Omissions, and Into the Future
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David W. Martin

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