As an introductory course of psychology, this course aims to enable learners to understand the knowledge system of modern scientific psychology, preliminarily grasp the basic concepts, basic methods and basic principles of psychology, and understand and analyze human psychological phenomena with the help of scientific knowledge of psychology. This course is also designed to enrich the knowledge structure of students, help them to further understand and improve themselves, and enhance the basic psychological quality of college students who will be citizens in the future society. It is beneficial to students' psychological development, human nature and personality growth, as well as to the educational work that some students may do in the future.
1. Overview of Psychology
1.1 Before Class
1.2 Psychologist = A Fortune Teller? What Exactly Is Psychology?
1.3 Why Study Psychology
2. History and Schools of Psychology
2.1 The Origin of Scientific Psychology: Structure First, or Function First, That Is a Question
2.2 Gestalt Psychology: To Know It in Ten Minutes
2.3 Psychoanalysis: It's Not as Dirty as You Think
2.4 Behaviorism: Twelve Children and One Daddy
2.5 Humanism: Give You a Big Hug
3. The Purpose behind the Action
3.1 Burn, Motivation!
3.2 Hunger Motivation: Sorry, but My Brain Says It Wants Something to Eat
3.3 Achievement Motivation: To Pursue Success or to Avoid Failure, What Is Your Choice?
3.4 Learned Helplessness: Out of the Cage, out of Fear
3.5 Fear of Success: What? I Can Get to the Top?
3.6 Cognitive Dissonance: It's Strange That I Have the Conscience to Do Such a Thing!
4. Tips for Easy Learning
4.1 What Does Learning Mean in Psychology?
4.2 Classical Conditioning: Why Does the Dog Drool at the Sound of the Bell, and Why do I Love My Idol and Love His Dog?
4.3 Operant Conditioning: What Can I Learn from Thorndike’s Cat?
4.4 Reinforcement and Punishment: How to Deal with Crying Children
4.5 Parenting Classes: Naughty Children Need Proper Punishment
4.6 Relationship between Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
4.7 Observational Learning: Media, Internet, Children, and Violence
5 Human Perception and Thinking
5.1 Sensory Deprivation Experiment: Don't Take away My Sensation
5.2 Sensation: The Scenery Is Just Here
5.3 Perception: How to Dress Properly
5.4 Sensory Memory: Remember You at a Glance
5.5 Short-Term Memory: Let Me Tell You the Best Time to Memorize English Words
5.6 Long-Term Memory: How Much Information Can One Remember?
5.7 Thinking: The Golden Key to Solving Problems
6. Emotional Experience and Stress Regulation
6.1 Emotion: A Palette of Pleasure and Sorrow
6.2 Expression of Emotions: Do Not Try to Lie to Me
6.3 The Characteristics of Emotional Expression: I Am a 95s Child, Chatting Only with Emoji
6.4 Life Stress: Challenges to Each Generation
6.5 Psychological Factors of Life Stress: Why Does Stress Occur?
6.6 The Way to Cope with Stress: Do You Treat It as a Joke or Pretend to Be Calm?
7. Truth of Hypnosis
7.1 Consciousness: The Thoughts Hovering and Flashing in Your Mind
7.2 The State of Consciousness
7.3 The Interpretation of Dreams: Dreaming Dreams from which I Can’t Wake up
7.4 Hypnosis: Hypnosis Is Not Magic
8 How Smart You Can Be
8.1 Intelligence: What Makes a Person with High Intelligence Outstanding?
8.2 Theory of Intelligence: Ancient Experts Said Nearsighted People are Stupid? (1)
8.3 Theory of Intelligence: Ancient experts Said Nearsighted People are Stupid? (2)
8.4 Intelligence Test: How to Measure Intelligence (1)
8.5 Intelligence Test: How to Measure Intelligence (2)
8.6 Factors Affecting Intellectual Development: How to Cultivate Kids into Genius
8.7 Creativity: To be Unrestrained and Imaginative
9 What Makes Popular Personality?
9.1 Temperament and Character: Two Important Concepts in Personality
9.2 Personality Test: Barnum Trap
9.3 Influence of Parenting Style on Personality: Families Shape Us
9.4 Personality Trait Theory—Trait: Individual Labels
9.5 I Wish Us All the Best