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Great Experiments in Psychology

Great Experiments in Psychology. Instructor: Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur. Psychology as a subject interests many but what is popularly known are the common views that humans hold about their race. Over the century, the subject's endeavour to establish itself as a science through various experiments remains unknown to many. The present course attempts to share the most important experiments in the history of Psychology that has helped shape its identity. It aims to aid students' understanding of how to design experiments with human subjects and assist the student to understand Psychology with a scientific eye. (from nptel.ac.in)

History and Origin of Psychology


Lecture 01 - History and Origin of Psychology
Lecture 02 - Establishing Psychology as a Science
Lecture 03 - Establishing Psychology as a Science (cont.)
Lecture 04 - A New Psychology
Lecture 05 - Structuralism and Beyond
Lecture 06 - Hermann Ebbinghaus on Memory
Lecture 07 - Reconstruction of an Automobile Destruction
Lecture 08 - Emotionality and Perceptual Defense
Lecture 09 - Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Lecture 10 - Milgram's Study on Obedience
Lecture 11 - Case Studies and Experiments in Clinical and Health Psychology
Lecture 12 - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Lecture 13 - A Case of Multiple Personality
Lecture 14 - The Story of Dibs
Lecture 15 - On Being Sane in Insane Places
Lecture 16 - The False Consensus Effect
Lecture 17 - A Class Divided
Lecture 18 - The Measurement of Androgyny
Lecture 19 - The Marshmallow Test
Lecture 20 - Summary of the Sessions

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Great Experiments in Psychology
Instructor: Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur. Psychology as a subject interests many but what is popularly known are the common views that humans hold about their race.