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Brief Introduction to Psychology

Brief Introduction to Psychology. Instructor: Prof. Braj Bhushan, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. This course will be helpful in understanding oneself, one's behaviour, and what lie beneath such behaviour. It will help you understand how we understand, feel, and act. Through this brief introduction to psychology we will cruise through some of the major psychological concepts and principles, primarily focusing on the perceptual processes, learning, memory and emotions. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 03 - Theory of Signal Detection


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Perception
Lecture 01 - Sensation: Five Basic Senses - Vision, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch
Lecture 02 - Sensation: Limen, Weber's Law, Just Noticeable Difference
Lecture 03 - Theory of Signal Detection
Lecture 04 - Form Perception: Gestalt Principles
Lecture 05 - Form Perception: Monocular Cues, Binocular Cues
Lecture 06 - Culture and Perception
Learning
Lecture 07 - Learning
Lecture 08 - Classical Conditioning
Lecture 09 - Classical Conditioning (cont.)
Lecture 10 - Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Lecture 11 - Classical vs Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Social Cognitive Theory
Lecture 12 - Cognitive Learning, Learning Curve, Transfer of Learning
Memory
Lecture 13 - Memory Processes, Information Processing Theory, Sensory Memory (Iconic)
Lecture 14 - Sensory Memory (Echoic), Short-Term Memory, Working Memory
Lecture 15 - Long-Term Memory (Explicit): Episodic Memory, Eyewitness Memory
Lecture 16 - Long-Term Memory (Explicit): Autobiographical Memory, Semantic Memory
Lecture 17 - Long-Term Memory (Implicit): Procedural Memory, Prospective Memory
Lecture 18 - Forgetting, Better Memory
Emotion
Lecture 19 - Theories of Emotion
Lecture 20 - Cognitive Theories: Schacter's Theory
Lecture 21 - Emotions in Infants, Emotion and Memory in Children
Lecture 22 - Culture and Emotion, Facial Expression of Emotion
Lecture 23 - Facial Expressions
Lecture 24 - Activation of Emotion, Appraisal of Emotion