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Sharjah

MITBrain and Cognitive Sciences9

Introduction to Psychology

planned·~168 hours total

Professor

  • John Gabrieli

Textbook

  • Psychology

    Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, Nock · 5th · ISBN 9781319281748

Materials

Foundations of psychology — cognition, perception, learning, motivation, social psychology, abnormal psychology.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    What is psychology? Methods and history

  2. Week 2

    Brain and behaviour; neurons; neuroimaging

  3. Week 3

    Perception — vision and audition

  4. Week 4

    Learning — classical and operant conditioning

  5. Week 5

    Memory — encoding, storage, retrieval

  6. Week 6

    Language and thought

  7. Week 7

    Intelligence; cognitive development

  8. Week 8

    Emotion; motivation

  9. Week 9

    Personality

  10. Week 10

    Social psychology — influence, attribution

  11. Week 11

    Psychological disorders

  12. Week 12

    Therapy and treatment