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Psychology of human behavior
Title:
Psychology of human behavior
Author:
Martin, David W., 1943-
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Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2006]

©2006
Physical Description:
18 audio discs (approximately 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Summary:
Thirty-six lectures on various aspects of behavioral psychology presented by David W. Martin, professor of psychology at North Carolina State University.
General Note:
Course 1620; three-part set of 36 half-hour lectures on 18 discs.
Language:
English
Contents:
Modern psychology in historical context. Experimentation as a research method -- Nonexperimental research methods. Evolutionary theory and modern psychology -- Freud's thinking. Details of psychoanalytic theory -- Classification of mental illnesses. Anxiety and mood disorders -- Disorders of brain, body, self, drugs, sex. Schizophrenic disorders -- Childhood, retardation, personality disorders. Physical therapies : drugs.

Physical therapies : ECT, surgery, genes. Talking therapies : psychoanalysis. Therapies : humanistic, cognitive, group. Behavior therapies : classical conditioning -- Behavior therapies : operant conditioning. Models of motivation -- Emotion : what do we measure? Emotion : theories -- Psychoactive drugs : processes, stimulants. Drugs : depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens. Social psychology : influence and reciprocity. Social psychology: additional mechanism.

Simple learning : classical conditioning. Simple learning : operant conditioning -- Complex learning. Memory : characteristics -- Memory aids and forgetting theories. lecture 30. Perception : forming internal models -- Perception : finding and organizing cues. Evolutionary psychology : basic concepts -- Evolutionary psychology : altruism and mating. Evolutionary psychology : war, family, food -- Engineering psychology. Recap, omissions, and into the future.
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ISBN:
9781598031805
Format :
Audiobook on CD