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Lecture Notes

This section contains a selection of lecture notes and class handouts representative of the course content. These lectures are NOT intended as a substitute for attending class. They are merely a skeletal outline of the material that will be covered in lecture. They are intended as an aid to taking notes in class and as a prod to memory when reviewing later.

Lecture 1 - The Beginning and the Brain (PDF)
Lecture 2 - Making the Brain Happy (PDF)
Lecture 3 - Learning to Make Your Brain Happy (PDF)
Lecture 4 - Disgust (PDF)
Lecture 5 - Perceptual Decision Making (PDF)
Lecture 6 - Comparisons are Important (PDF)
Lecture 7 - Why is Vision (and, by extension, everything else) Hard? (PDF)
Lecture 8 - Memory (PDF)
Lecture 9 - Language & its Acquisition (PDF)
Lecture 10 - Language & its Acquisition Part II (PDF)
Lecture 11 - Cognitive Development (PDF)
Lecture 12 - Nature, Nurture, and the Problem of Intelligence (PDF)
Lecture 13 - The Battle of the Sexes (PDF)
Lecture 14 - From Evolution to Social Exchange (PDF)
Lecture 15 - (Lecture note not available at this time)
Lecture 16 - The Compliant Sadist and the Apathetic Bystander (PDF)
Lecture 17 - Who are You? (PDF)
Lecture 18 - From Dissociation to Repression (PDF)
Lecture 19 - Freud and Morality (PDF)
Lecture 20 - Freud: Morality -> Sleep and Dreams (PDF)
Lecture 21 - Freud: Morality -> Sleep and Dreams Part II (PDF)
Lecture 22 - Freud, Bettelheim, and Fairy Tales (PDF)
Lecture 23 - Mind and Brain in Psychiatry (PDF)
Lecture 24 - (Lecture note not available at this time)
Lecture 25 - Succesful Disasters (PDF)
Lecture 26 - I wooed thee with my sword.... (PDF)

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