Course: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
Course Provider:
MIT
Course Duration:
1 month
Course Instructors:
Prof. John D. E. Gabrieli
Description:
Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self, and society.
"Course Components and Requirements
This course consists of the following components:
Assigned readings
Lectures
Small-group discussion sections
Three exams
Writing assignments"
Additional Data:
"This introductory college undergraduate course has no specific course prerequisites. It is designed to be most useful to people with knowledge of the following subjects at the level typically taught in U.S. high schools:
Mathematics
Experimental data collection and visual representations of data in graphs and tables
Natural sciences
Biology of the human nervous system
Physics of light and sound"
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