Intro to Psychology Lectures

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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.

Dana C. Leighton


    • Jun 4, 2008 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 15m AVG DURATION
    • 23 EPISODES


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    PSY202A Episode 15 - Psychological Disorders Pt 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2008 94:01


    Covers schizophrenia, eating disorders, treatments

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    PSY202A Episode 14 - Psychological Disorders Pt 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2008 89:47


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

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    PSY202A Episode 13 - Psychological Disorders Pt 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2008 84:59


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

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    PSY202A Episode 12 - Stress Pt 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2008 80:03


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

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    PSY202A Episode 11 - Stress

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2008 36:30


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

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    PSY202A Episode 10 - Social Psychology, Pt 3

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2008 50:52


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

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    PSY202A Episode 9 - Social Psychology, Pt 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2008 35:00


    Social influences on individual behavior

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    PSY202A Episode 8 - Social Psychology, Pt 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2008 87:00


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

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    PSY202A Episode 7 - Personality, Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2008 72:19


    Covers the trait perspective, and social-cognitive perspective.

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    PSY202A Episode 6 - Personality Pt 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2008 77:10


    Personality Theories - Part 1: Psychodynamic & Humanistic perspectives.

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    PSY201A Episode 8 - Memory Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2008 76:31


    Memory: Errors and retrieval.

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    PSY201A Episode 7 - Memory part 1 & Bell exercise 2.2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2008 88:36


    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.

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    PSY201A Episode 6 - Nervous System & Brain

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2008 75:40


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

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    PSY201A Episode 5 - Nervous system & Neurons

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2008 80:00


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

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    PSY201A Episode 4 - Systems & Methods

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2008 77:49


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

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    PSY201A Episode 3 - History, Systems & Methods Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2008 66:20


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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2008 76:37


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

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    PSY201A Episode 1 - Course Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2008 75:26


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

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    PSY202A Episode 5 - Motivation Pt. 2 and Emotion

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2007 72:18


    This episode covers sex motivation and emotion.

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    PSY202A Episode 4 - Motivation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2007 89:18


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

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    PSY202A Episode 3 - Intelligence Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2007 76:23


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

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    PSY202A Episode 2 - Intelligence Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2007 84:25


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

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    PSY202A Episode 1 - Course Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2007 78:14


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

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