Lecture+1(耶鲁大学-心理学导论讲稿).pdf

1 Introduction to Psychology Yale University Lecture 1 Id like to welcome people to this course, Introduction to Psychology. My name is Dr. Paul Bloom. Im professor of this course. And what this is going to be is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the human mind. So, we are going to cover a very, very wide range of topics including brains, children, language, sex, memory, madness, disgust, racism and love, and many others. Were going to talk about things like the proper explanation for differences between men and women; the question of whether animals can learn language; the puzzle of what grosses us out; the problem of why some of us eat too much and what we could do to stop; the question of why people go crazy in groups; research into whether you could trust your childhood memories; research into why some of us get depressed and others dont. The style of this is therell be two lectures a week, as well as course readings. Now, to do well in the course, you have to attend both the lectures and do the readings. There will be some overlap. In some cases, the lectures will be quite linked to the readings. But there will be some parts of the readings that will not find their way into the lectures, and some lectures--some entire lectures that will not connect at all to the readings. So, to pursue this course properly you have to do both. What this means is that if you miss a class you need to get notes, and so you should get them from a friend or from the person sitting next to you. The slides are going to be made available online. So, one of the things you dont have to do is you dont have to write this down. You take notes any way you choose, but if you dont get anything on there itll be available online. Im going to post it in a format which will be black and white and easy to print out so you dont have to worry about this. But again, attending to the slides i