9.00P Introduction to Psychology
As taught in: Fall 2001
The multiple changing patterns show how the brain constantly tries to organize the input from the visual system. (Courtesy of Prof. Steven Pinker.)
Level:
Undergraduate
Instructors:
Prof. Steven Pinker
Course Description
A first course in psychology: how we think, see, feel, learn, talk, act, grow, fear, like, love, hate, lust, and interact. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Largely experimental and social psychology, with relevant ideas from biology, philosophy, linguistics, economics, anthropology, and the arts.
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
