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This course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by asking and answering everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using different research tools and approaches.
This course includes
Hours of videos
5 hours, 5 minutes
Units & Quizzes
14
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Explain some of the key aspects of prejudice and how and why they are important
- Describe basic elements in the study of the psychology of personal relationships such as love and friendship
- Understand how visual illusions are used to explore the visual system and how psychologists research vision
- Understand the role of theory of mind in researching child development.
Course Currilcum
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- Why don’t we like one another? 00:05:00
- Explicit and implicit prejudice 00:10:00
- Potential limitations of self-report measures of prejudice 00:40:00
- Tackling social desirability 00:10:00
- The activation of racial attitudes 00:15:00
- Interpreting the findings 00:10:00
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- Why would I hang around with you? 00:05:00
- Enduring love? 01:00:00
- Do you see what I see? 00:05:00
- What do visual illusions tell us about how we process information? 01:00:00
- Adelson’s checkerboard illusion 00:40:00
- Spiral after-effect illusion 00:20:00
- Conclusion 00:05:00
