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Lecture slides for 2014-5

Part 1: Philosophy of science, in relation to psychology. Lectures 1-6

• Lecture 1 (22 Sept):     PDF of slides
  Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording     Dept. audio recording (direct)     Local copy (.mp3)     Local copy (.mov)
  Discussion questions:
  1. "What issues do you think that most people should expect psychology to answer, if they can?"
  2. "Do you think psychology has answered these yet?"

• Lecture 2 (23 Sept):     PDF of slides     Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. What are the cases (the kinds of cases) where experiment is not used in psychology. How do the objections apply to each or not?
  2. Does experiment have the same power if you don't manipulate causality, but just select different types of people for the two groups (e.g. different personality types)?
  3. What examples can you think of or find, where statistics act like a telescope: to see things that otherwise we could never know.

• Lecture 3 (24 Sept):     PDF of slides     Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording
      A short page on correlation and causation
  Discussion questions:
  1. What cases can you think of parts of psychology where in reality 2-way causation is probably important?
  2. What are the cases (the kinds of cases) where experiment is not used in psychology. How do the objections apply to each or not?
  3. Does experiment have the same power if you don't manipulate causality, but just select different types of people for the two groups (e.g. different personality types)?
  4. What examples can you think of or find, where statistics act like a telescope: to see things that otherwise we could never know.

• Lecture 4 (25 Sept):     PDF of slides     Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. Is is irrational, or sensible, when scientists do not accept apparent disproofs of theory?
  2. Can you think of cases of this in psychology? If you can't think of cases now, keep an eye out for them as you learn more of the history of psychology.

• Lecture 5 (29 Sept):     PDF of slides     Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. Where / how would you classify Psychology as a discipline on any dimension, including Arts/Science and pure/applied?
  2. Where would you classify Philosophy (on the 2D map of disciplines)?

• Lecture 6 (30 Sept): Guest speaker: Susan Stuart (her Former consciousness course, Current consciousness course catalogue entry, its current Moodle page )
      PDF of slides     Lecture recording: Dept. audio recording    

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  Part 2: History of psychology. Lectures 7-12

• Lecture 7 (3 Oct):     Psychologists: Wundt, Ebbinghaus     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.4; Schultz: chs (3), 4.
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space     Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3) Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. Is identifying Wundt as "the start" of psychology a good, or a poor, idea?
  2. What are the things in favour of this, and the things against it?

• Lecture 8 (7 Oct):     Psychologists: Titchener, James; Wertheimer.     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.4; Schultz: ch.s 5, 7, 9, 12.
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. Now if you can; but throughout our psychology courses from now on: try to identify aspects in each area of: {functionalism, structuralism, "relation-ism"}.
  2. E.g. Is neuropsychology just a doomed attempt to reintroduce structuralism, with the elements being brain areas?

• Lecture 9 (9 Oct): Behaviourism.     Psychologists: Watson, Skinner, ....     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.5; Schultz: ch.s 9, 10, 11.
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording
  Discussion questions:
  1. What phenomena or problems can you think of that behaviourism doesn't deal with properly?

• Lecture 10 (10 Oct): Cognitivism     Psychologists: (Bartlett, Hebb), Miller, Bruner, Neisser.     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.?; Schultz: ch.15.
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording

• Lecture 11 (13 Oct): Freud and Humanistic psychology     Psychologists: Freud, Carl Rogers, Maslow     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.4.6; Schultz: ch.s 13,14
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording

• Lecture 12 (14 Oct): Freud and patient treatments     Psychologists: Freud     Textbook sections: Brysbaert: ch.4.4; Schultz: chs. (13,14)
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording

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• Lecture 13 (17 Oct): Reductionism; course overview
  PDF of slides     PDF of slides with note space
  Lecture recording:     Local copy (.mp3)     Dept. audio recording

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Lecture slides for 2013-4

• Lecture 1 (4 Oct)
• Lecture 2 (7 Oct)
• Lecture 3 (8 Oct)
• Lecture 4 (11 Oct)
• Lecture 5-6 (14, 15 Oct)
• (15 Oct) [see previous double set of slides] Guest speaker: Susan Stuart (her consciousness course, (its future place), and its relationship with psychology).
• Lecture 7 (18 Oct)

  Lecture slides for Feb-March 2012-13

• Lecture 1 (5 Feb)
• Lecture 2 (12 Feb)
• Lecture 3 (19 Feb)
• Lecture 4 (26 Feb)
• Lecture 5 (5 March) Guest speaker: Susan Stuart (her consciousness course and its relationship with psychology).
• Lecture 6 (12 March)
• Lecture 7 (19 March)

  Lecture slides for 2012

• Lecture 1 (7 Feb)
• Lecture 2 (14 Feb)
• Lecture 3 (21 Feb) [revised]
        A short page on correlation and causation
• Lecture 4 (28 Feb)
• Lecture 5 (6 March) [my actual slides]
  In this lecture, we also had a guest speaker, Susan Stuart, for part of it, on some relationships between philosophy and psychology, and how philosophy and psychology students interact on her consciousness course.

• Lecture 6 (13 March) [actual slides]
  In this lecture, we also had a guest speaker, Vicky Gunn, for part of it, on some relationships between theology, history, and psychology.

• Lecture 7 (20 March) [actual slides]

  Old lecture slides for 2011

• Slide set 1
• Slide set 3
• Slide set 4
• Slide set 5

• References and learning objectives