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Memory is essential for life as we currently experience it, allowing us to use what we know to interpret the world. This study of memory will help you to understand how your own memory works, beginning with a discussion of the three-stage model of memory, which involves sensory, short term (or working), and long-term memory. The focus then moves to encoding, or the process by which information is transferred into memory. In the last section we look at retrieval or bringing information from lo This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

In this section we look at how psychologists have studied learning and what we know about how humans learn looking at how both biological and cognitive psychologists have studied learning. We look in detail at classical conditioning, in which we learn that one stimulus signals the arrival of another connecting events in our environment, and at operant conditioning, which focuses on connections between our behaviors and their consequences. The chapter also focuses on both the biological and co This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

To understand and live in the world around us we must first gather (sense) and then interpret (perceive) the information presented to us. We begin our study of sensation and perception by looking at the three psychophysical questions: the questions of detection, difference, and the scaling. Then we look at just how our sense organs, especially the eyes and ears, do their work. Lastly, we look at how we process visual information by detailing how the brain organizes incoming visual stimuli.

In this chapter we look at just how the brain and nervous system are able to control nearly everything we do by starting with the smallest piece, a nerve cell or neuron, and then looking at the structure of the entire nervous system and its subsystems, the central and peripheral nervous systems. Along with the nervous system we will consider the endocrine glandular system, the body’s other major communication system. We will also look in-depth at the brain and its major parts, focusing especi This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

Rather than focusing on what we traditionally think of as psychology, therapy, this text seeks to highlight psychology as a science and begins by exploring the four major research perspectives: biological and cognitive, which focus on internal factors, and behavioral and sociocultural, which focus on external factors. We then move onto descriptive, correlational, and experimental research methods, all used by psychologists to study human behavior and mental processing. Finally we look at how This is a short preview. Continue with the full course: https://www.virversity.com/intro-psychology-listeners?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=intro_psychology

In this lesson, we will go over an introduction to the course. I will give an introduction to psychology, and a summary of the content. There are two textbooks for this course, both are optional:

Griggs, R. (2014). Psychology: A Concise Introduction (Fourth Edition). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
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