The Great Ideas of Psychology
Publisher: The Teaching Company (1997)
Language: English
Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D. Georgetown University
Daniel Robinson is professor of psychology at Georgetown University, where he has taught since 1971. Although his doctorate was earned in neuropsychology (1965, City University of New York), his scholarly books and articles have established him as an authority in the history of psychology, philosophy of psychology, and psychology and law. He holds the position of adjunct professor of philosophy at Georgetown and, since 1991, he has lectured regularly for the sub-faculty of philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Dr. Robinson’s books include The Enlightened Machine: An Analytical Introduction to Neuropsychology (Columbia, 1980), Psychology and Law (Oxford, 1980), Philosophy of Psychology (Columbia, 1985), Aristotle’s Psychology (1989), An Intellectual History of Psychology (3rd ed., Wisconsin, 1995) and Wild Beasts & Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present (Harvard, 1996). Dr. Robinson has served as principal consultant to the Public Broadcasting System for the award-winning series “The Brain” and the subsequent ninepart series, “The Mind.” He is past president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association: the division of the history of psychology and the division of theoretical and philosophical psychology. He is fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the British Psychological Society. Dr. Robinson is also visiting senior member of Linacre College, Oxford.
Table of Contents
Section I: Foundations
Lecture One: Defining the Subject…………………………………………..4
Lecture Two: Ancient Foundations: Greek Philosophers and Physicians………………………………………………………………………6
Lecture Three: Minds Possessed: Witchery and the Search for Explanations………………………………………………………………….8
Lecture Four: The Emergence of Modern Science: Locke’s “Newtonian” Theory of Mind……………………………………………….10
Lecture Five: Three Enduring “isms”: Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism…………………………………………………………………..12
Section II: Psychology in the Empiricist Tradition
Lecture Six: Sensation and Perception…………………………………….14
Lecture Seven: The Visual Process…………………………………………15
Lecture Eight: Hearing……………………………………………………..17
Lecture Nine: Signal-Detection Theory…………………………………….19
Lecture Ten: Perceptual Constancies and Illusions……………………….21
Lecture Eleven: Learning and Memory: Associationism—Aristotle to Ebbinghaus…….23
Lecture Twelve: Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex……………………...25
Lecture Thirteen: Watson and American Behaviorism……………………4
Lecture Fourteen: B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism………………..6
Lecture Fifteen: B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society……………..8
Lecture Sixteen: Language…………………………………………………...9
Section Three: Psychology in the Rationalist Tradition
Lecture Seventeen: The Integration of Experience………………………..11
Lecture Eighteen: Perception and Attention………………………………13
Lecture Nineteen: Cognitive “Maps,” “Insight” and Animal Minds……15
Lecture Twenty: Memory Revisited: Mnemonics and Context…………17
Lecture Twenty-One: Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development…….19
Lecture Twenty-Two: The Development of Moral Reasoning…………...21
Lecture Twenty-Three: Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding…….23
Lecture Twenty-Four: Comprehending the World of Experience— Cognition Summarized…...25
Lecture Twenty-Five: Psychobiology—Nineteenth-Century Foundations……4
Lecture Twenty-Six: Language and the Brain……………………………..6
Lecture Twenty-Seven: Rationality, Problem-Solving and Brain Function………8
Lecture Twenty-Eight: The “Emotional” Brain—The Limbic System…….10
Lecture Twenty-Nine: Violence and the Brain…………………………….12
Lecture Thirty: Psychopathology—The Medical Model……..…………..14
Lecture Thirty-One: Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution.….16
Lecture Thirty-Two: Is Artificial intelligence “Intelligent”?………….....18
Section Five: Psychology and the Social Context
Lecture Thirty-Three: What Makes an Event “Social”?...……………….20
Lecture Thirty-Four: Socialization—Darwin and the “Natural History” Method..…22
Lecture Thirty-Five: Freud’s Debt to Darwin…...…..…………………….24
Lecture Thirty-Six: Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression………26
Lecture Thirty-Seven: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development…..4
Lecture Thirty-Eight: Critiques of Freudian Theory………………….…..6
Lecture Thirty-Nine: What is Personality?……………………………….....8
Lecture Forty: Obedience and Conformity……….……………………….10
Lecture Forty-One: Altruism……………………………………………….12
Lecture Forty-Two: Prejudice and Self-Deception………………………..14
Lecture Forty-Three: On Being Sane in Insane Places……….……….….16
Section Six: Enduring Issues
Lecture Forty-Four: Intelligence……………………………………………18
Lecture Forty-Five: Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment..20
Lecture Forty-Six: Genetic Psychology and the “Bell Curve”…………...22
Lecture Forty-Seven: Psychological and Biological Determinism……….24
Lecture Forty-Eight: Civic Development: Psychology, the Person, and the Polis…..26
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