Major Perspectives in Psychology

In this lecture, I talked about Freud's theories regarding the unconscious and personality:

1. The Unconscious Theory: The conscious, preconscious, unconscious, and whether the unconscious could be reality.

2. The Personality Theory: The id, the ego, and the superego

In this lecture, I talked about Freud's theories regarding psychoanalysis and defense mechanisms:

1. Psychoanalysis: Components of the psychoanalysis such as the Freudian slip, free association, dream analysis, and transference.

2. Defense Mechanisms: Examples of defense mechanisms such as projection, denial, repression, regression, displacement, reaction formation, rationalization, and sublimation.

In this lecture, I introduced the behaviorist perspective and dug deeper into classical conditioning, touching upon:

1. Ivan Pavlov's dogs,

2. Key terms relevant to the subject such as unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral stimulus, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response,

3. The process of classical conditioning,

4. The principles of classical conditioning,

5. The Little Albert experiment and its ethical issues.

In this lecture, I talked about and defined operant conditioning, touching upon:

1. Edward Thorndike's experiment and the 'law of effect',

2. B.F. Skinner's experiment and the 'skinner box',

3. Differences between reinforcement and punishment,

4. Examples of positive & negative reinforcements as well as punishments,

5. Schedules of reinforcement.

In this lecture, I defined neurons and neurotransmitters and then talked about the structure of a nerve cell; explaining dendrites, the axon, the myelin sheath, and the soma. I also briefly summarized the process of neurotransmission.

In this lecture, I talked about the three types of neurotransmitters: excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory. Then, I proceeded to explain certain neurotransmitters that have an influence on psychology: serotonin, epinephrine, dopamine, GABA, and endorphin.