Learn Psychology Basics

The videos course cover some of the key issues in the study of psychology, and describe major theoretical frameworks for understanding what it is inside you that makes you do the things you do.

Anyone taking (or preparing to take) courses in Introductory Psychology, Personality, Learning, Motivation, and related topics OR Anyone interested in knowing more about what drives human behavior will be benefited via this course.

WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET FROM THIS COURSE?

- Over 21 lectures and 3 hours of content!
- Describes how psychologists study human behavior
- Offers frameworks for understanding key topics in psychology
- Focuses on explanations of concepts, phenomena, and theories

*WHAT YOU WILL LEARN*

✔ What is Psychology?
✔ How to do Experimental Research
✔ How to do Correlational Research
✔ Information about Behavior Genetics
✔ What Heritability Is and Isn't
✔ How Evolution Works
✔ Things We Want And Don’t Want
✔ Two-Factor Theory and Excitation Transfer
✔ How to figure out Attributions, explanations for people's behaviors
✔ Making Judgments You Maybe Shouldn't Be Making
✔ An Introduction to Psychoanalysis
✔ You've Got Needs. And You've Got Choices
✔ Fear is the Big Bugaboo
✔ Basics of Classical Conditioning
✔ Monkeying Around with Stimuli
✔ Basics of operant Conditioning
✔ Why do you 'relate' to your significant others
✔ How do you 'relate' to your significant others

*FEATURES*

- Lifetime access to 21 lectures
- 2+ hours of high quality content
- A community of 4600+ people trying to learn the same thing!
- Watch courses on the go: video lectures, audio lectures, presentations, articles and anything inside your course.
- Watch courses in offline: Save courses for offline viewing so you can watch them while you're on a plane or subway!

* WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE ON UDEMY *

"I found this course interesting and informative.Well presented. 10/10"
- (Michelle Taylor) ★★★★★

"The professor explains complex concepts in a simple way. Really learned a lot. Again Excellent Program"
- (John DiGasbarro) ★★★★★

"Dr. Sharpsteen lecture series was simple to follow. The use of slides, definitions, and movie application helped with understanding."
- (Shella McGinnis) ★★★★★

"This course was extremely interesting. It is full of valuable information, interspersed with film clips and illustrative examples. I learned a lot about psychology and myself! Might watch again to see if I missed anything."
- (Jennifer) ★★★★★

"This course was very helpful for me. Everyone should try it to understand psychology for their day to day life."
- (Sahan Jayasinghe) ★★★★★

INSTRUCTED BY: Dr. Don J. Sharpsteen | Psychology professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. Sharpsteen has been a professor of psychology for nearly 25 years, specializing in topics related to social psychology and personality. He's the author of REA's CLEP Introductory Psychology, a test preparation guide for introductory/general psychology courses.

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