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Great Course Great Ideas of Psychology

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God & Work

What this book knows

Psychology's deepest ideas—from Greek soul-theory to behaviorism to neuroscience—form a continuous argument about what minds actually are.

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Learning: Primary
Religion: Present

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mind-and-cognition

Plato believed the soul had certain endowments making humans fit for particular activities—native characteristics that cannot be changed by learning or experience.
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Major contests for supremacy between structuralism, functionalism, and psychoanalysis set the stage for Watson's distinctly American alternative: behaviorism.
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Broca discovered a damaged region of the left frontal lobe in a patient who could only utter 'tan'—inaugurating the neuroscience of language.
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self-and-identity

The propagandist's chief tool is a typology that erases the individual and absorbs every person into a racial, ethnic, or gender 'type.'
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Later life is characterized by either integrity or despair—integrity being the continuing integration of one's most important features; despair its utter defeat.
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education-and-formation

Folk psychologies have always reserved a special place for those judged abnormal or possessed—bizarre conduct demands explanation in ways ordinary behavior never does.
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