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Great Course Psychology of Human Behavior

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What this book knows

Human behavior obeys discoverable mechanisms—conditioning, memory, emotion, and social influence—that science can map and modify.

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mind-and-cognition

After something is learned, it has to be remembered; what is the nature of memory?
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Interference theory says that we forget what we have learned only because other things interfere with remembering it.
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Loftus discovered she could get some people to believe completely false events from their childhood occurred if embedded in true events.
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Our subjective experience during concept formation is one of mentally testing hypotheses; it is difficult to argue this is nothing more than operant conditioning.
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self-and-identity

After a verbal fight, once they make up and re-label arousal from anger to love, the love is even stronger than if they had not fought.
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obedience-and-authority

Milgram's famous experiments on authority involving the suppression of individual will to an authority figure.
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