耶鲁大学公开课：心理学导论 Introduction of Psychology 1

Introduction of Psychology
( textbook: <<Psychology>> by Peter Grey, 5th edition)
A comprehensive introduction to the study of the human mind. Topics: brains,children, language, sex, memory, madness, disgust, racism, love, etc.
The proper explanation for differences between men and woman.
The question of whether animals can learn language.
The puzzle of what grosses us out.
The problem of why some of us eat too much and what we could do to stop.
The question of why people go crazy in groups.
Whether you could trust your childhood memories.
Course reading: << Norton Reader>> by Gary Marcus
General goals of the course: Provide a state of the art introduction to the most important topic, that there is: us. How the human mind works.
5 sub-areas:
Neuroscience——study of the mind by looking at the brain. Developmental——learn about how to develop and grow and learn. Cognitive——refers to a sort of computational approach to studying the mind, often reviewing the mind on analogy with a computer and looking at how people do things like understand language and so on.
Social——how people act in groups with others
Clinical——mental health and mental illness
Involving: economics, Game Theory, philosophy,computer science, anthropology, literature, theology, other domains.
How a physical thing can give rise to mental life?
Question about development:
1.How do we come to have knowledge? In particular, how much of it is hard-wired, built-in, innate and how much of it is the product of culture, of language, of schooling?
2.To what extent is Zachary(professor's youngest son) at that age going to be that way forever? To what extent is your fate sealed?
William Wordsworth:" The child is father to the man."
3.What makes us the way we are?
One common theory is we are shaped by our parents.
Phillip Larkin:" They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to but they do, they fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you."
4.What makes somebody attractive?
Evil& Good
Evil: somebody behaving cruelly towards somebody else, perhaps not due
to malice but because of the institution that she's in.
e.g. Asama Ben Laden, Ted Bundy
Good:
e.g. Oscar Schindler, Paul Rusesabagina
Major disorders: depression& anxiety
e.g. Phineas Gage, 100 years ago,disorders in memory
Capgras syndrome: typically the result of some sort of stroke, create a delusion is that the person you love the most have been replaced.
Cotard's syndrome: believe oneself is dead.
Words:
Syllabus, teaching, fellow, orient, shopping period, centrally, profanity, fugitive, overlap, floating around, multiple choice, short answer, prior, domain, stark, preoccupy, hard-wired, built-in, innate, ingenious, pinpoint, gruesome。