Great Ideas of Psychology

Great Ideas of Psychology















TTC – Great Ideas of Psychology [48 Lectures, 30 min each (MP3)]
If you’ve ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human
emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, this
course offers a superb place to start.
As you hear these lectures, you hear the entire history of psychology
unfold. And you learn that the subject most of us today associate with
names like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and B. F. Skinner really began
thousands of years earlier.

In the hands of Professor Daniel N. Robinson, this course roams far and
wide, encompassing ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions
that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you
knew about psychology.
Witness the Debate over Psychology’s Very Existence
In fact, you not only learn what psychology is, but even if it is, as
Professor Robinson discusses the constantly shifting debate over the
nature of psychology itself.
You see one school of thought after another enter the fray, trying to
determine how this strange thing called the human “mind” is to be
understood, studied, and treated:
* Are we an entity that simply perceives an external world and piles
one experience upon another in order to learn?
* Could such a process even happen without an intervening rationality to
make sense of it all?
* Or is “mind” itself merely an unobservable illusion, leaving the
science of psychology with little more to study than the actual physical
realities of body and brain?
It’s a debate that has raged for centuries, and to take this course
is to see the question and its implications with a new clarity.
A Multidisciplinary Teacher of Exceptional Skills
Originally trained as a neuropsychologist, Professor Robinson’s
decades of lecturing and distinguished scholarship have also established
him as an authority in the fields of philosophical psychology, the
history of psychology, and the junction of psychology and law.
So it is no surprise that he brings clarity, coherence, and
comprehensiveness to this stimulating treatment of psychological
speculation, debate, and investigation through the ages.
We think you’ll agree that he has crafted a fascinating and immensely
thought-provoking course—one that is philosophically well-grounded,
scientifically informative, and engagingly presented by a true master of
the teaching art.
It is a course, in short, for the “seeker” in you, designed to
satisfy your need to know, your willingness to self-examine, and your
restless curiosity about the world around you.
In fact, the array of ideas, cases, and issues you encounter is so
remarkable, embracing so diverse a spectrum of thinkers and subjects,
that you might find it hard to believe you’re taking just a “psychology”
course.
Some of What You Will Learn
Lecture by lecture, Professor Robinson navigates from one subject to
the next, and you follow along as he recreates a Platonic dialogue;
explains brain physiology; or explores the intricacies of middle ear
construction, the psychological underpinnings of the Salem witch trials,
and the history of the insanity defense.
Among other things, you learn:
* how a brilliant young scientist’s temporary blindness led to
pioneering research in sensory psychology
* why some survivors of hydrocephaly can function normally despite
having lost as much as two-fifths of their brain mass
* what Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem suggests about claims for the
existence of Artificial Intelligence
* how the once-prestigious, now-derided “sciences” of phrenology and
mesmerism contributed to psychological knowledge
* why David Hume held that causality itself is essentially a
psychological phenomenon, and what his fellow philosopher and Scotsman
Thomas Reid argued in response
* what happened when a Stanford psychologist and his students decided to
study “being sane in insane places” by getting themselves committed to a
mental institution
* why Aristotle believed that a virtuous civic life is the prior
condition of individual psychic flourishing
* how the brain is able to “rewire” itself to compensate for particular
traumas at an early age
* if high heritability determines how much the environment influences
the value of a trait.
Three Powerful Traditions
Professor Robinson explains how the different traditions of
psychology and their rich intellectual histories relate to the “great
debate of the ages” about being, knowledge, freedom, and the sources of
and standards for human conduct.
Thus you learn how the three great intellectual traditions of
materialism, empiricism, and rationalism—each one an answer to the basic
questions of being and knowledge—powerfully influence the theory and
practice of psychology to this day.
Along the way, you’ll meet Freud, Skinner, Jung, Watson, Piaget,
Erikson, and other giants.
But you also learn why Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Locke,
Hume, and Kant must also be counted among the founders of psychology.
An Exceptional Range of Brilliant Thinkers
And that’s only a small sampling of the exceptional range of
brilliant thinkers whose ideas have contributed to the subject of this
course.
You encounter these great minds as you:
* study the contributions made to the understanding of human
knowledge, volition, and the mind-body problem by great philosophers and
scientists, including Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Mill
* probe the sources of our capacities for altruism, learning, language,
conformity, and aggression
* share correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, David
Hume and Thomas Reid, and Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
* think through a thought experiment on human freedom
* review the insights gleaned from famous neurological cases such as
that of “Broca’s brain”
* sail to the Galapagos Islands with Darwin
* ponder the insights and perplexities of psychoanalysis with Freud
* ponder the provocative discussion of the moral implications of a true
Artificial Intelligence—a thinking computer—and whether such a machine
would have “rights,” including the right not to be turned off; i.e., the
right to life.

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