Crash Course Psychology #3: The Chemical Mind
[10:13] BAHHHHHH! Did I scare you? What exactly happens when we get scared? How does our brain make our body react? Just w…
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Crash Course Psychology #4: Meet Your Master – Getting to Know Your Brain
[12:33] In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, we get to meet the brain. Hank talks us through the Central Nervous S…
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Crash Course Psychology #5: Sensation & Perception
[10:45] Just what is the difference between sensing and perceiving? And how does vision actually work? And what does th…
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Crash Course Psychology #7: Perceiving is Believing
[9:59] So what does perception even mean? What’s the difference between seeing something and making sense of it…
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Crash Course Psychology #8: Consciousness
[9:33] What exactly is Consciousness? Well… that’s kind of a gray area. In this episode of Crash Course Ps…
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Crash Course Psychology #11: How to Train a Brain
[11:49] I’m sure you’ve heard of Pavlov’s Bell (and I’m not talking about the Aimee Mann son…
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Crash Course Psychology #15: Cognition – How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You
[10:41] We used to think that the human brain was a lot like a computer; using logic to figure out complicated problems. I…
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Crash Course Psychology #21: Rorschach & Freudians
[12:23] Herman Rorschach (no, not the guy from Watchmen) came up with the eponymous tests, but what do they mean? Why are …
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Crash Course Psychology #22: Measuring Personality
[11:07] How would you measure a personality? What, exactly, is the self? Well, as you’ve come to expect, it̵…
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Crash Course Psychology #23: Controversy of Intelligence
[12:38] So, how many different kinds of intelligence are there? And what is the G-Factor? Eugenics? Have you ever taken …
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