Intro to Psychology: Crash Course Psychology #1

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1. please give hindi indian subtitle

2. that's a great shirt

3. I'm 11. I know I might kinda young to study psychology but….I want to know a bit about it. I have a passion to become a therapist or psychologist….I want to help people with their feelings….☺

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5. Hii I am planning to introduce psychology to my teammates, regards to our daily activities. I am willing to hear from the experts how I can educate myself as well teach my friends and colleagues?

6. self educating/ preparing myself on this topic while in quarantine never seemed so do-able

7. this will be a trip to binge

8. …….

   He really never stops talking, does he?

9. Just wow

10. I don't know why the idea that anyone was alive from the time of the civil war to WWII is….it just blows my mind.

11. LOOKING FOR SOME EXPERIENCED FACULTY TO GIVE A TALK IN OUR WEBINAR

12. Crash course is the best channel for me!!!😍

13. I'm just here to learn this and solve my problems and to get some answers.😅

14. Dear Sir/ Madam,
    
    I have gone through your video.
    
    Found interesting.
    
    I am a Mechanical Engineer.
    
    In a lockdown, I would like to explore Psychology.
    
    Considering that, I am a non-psychology student, can you suggest one complete book on psychology which may cover 80-90% of the subject? Thanks for your kind help in advance.
    
    Regard, Ajit

15. Is it required for him to speak too fast?

16. So basically,

    Human minds are one of the most complicated things and the rules that govern it are mysterious & elusive.

    While the term "psychology" was coined around 16th Century, the practice of science around it was no established until the 1800. The formal definition of psychology has evolved over the last several decades, today we can safely call it the science of behavior and mental processes.

    Psychology is one of the most extremely diverse in terms of the questions it proposes, the method it applies and the school of though it contains.

    For instance, right around Freud's(1900-1939) time, there were a lot of different schools of thought of about how the study of the human mind should be tackled. Mainly, there were the ideas of structuralism, functionalism and psychoanalysis.

    -"Structuralism" in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Bradford Titchener:
    
    "Structuralism" focusses on how patient feel when they do something like watched the sun set, or smell a coffee, or licked a kitten, or whatever.
    
    This relied heavily on introspection and it became too subjective and since it's not possible observe a patient's inner thoughts or feelings, so ultimately, the structuralist school of thought was fairly short-lived.

    -"Functionalism" in 1890 by William James:
    
    Focuses on the "function of behavior", why we think and feel and smell and lick, or whatever. This approach of 'functionalism', was based on Charles Darwin's idea that adaptive behaviors are conserved throughout the evolutionary process.

    -"Psychoanalysis" in 1900 by Freud:
    
    A radical kernel of Psychoanalysis suggests that "our personalities are shaped by unconscious motives" which mean we are all profoundly affected by mental processes that we are not aware of. Another important part of the "Psychoanalysis" is that "unconscious, the thing below consciousness" is still discover-able. An even though we are not aware of it, we can come to understand it through a therapeutic technique using dreams, projections and free association to root out repressed feelings and gain self insight.
    
    So what Freud was really saying was that "mental disorders could be healed through talk therapy and self-discovery". And this was a really big breakthrough. After "The Interpretations of Dreams", Freud went on to publish over 20 more books and countless papers with an iconic cigar in hand all the while.

    -"Behaviorism" by Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner:
    
    Behaviorism focuses on the study of observable behavior.
    
    The first half of the 20th Century was dominated by "behaviorism" promoted by Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner.

    -"Psychodynamic Theories" descendant of Freud's Psychoanalysis:
    
    Psychodynamic Theories focuses on importance of early experiences in shaping the unconscious and how that process affects out though, feelings, behavior and personalities.

    By the mid-20th century, there were other major forces in psychology like "Humanist Psychology", which focuses on nurturing personal growth; "Cognitive Science" and "Neuroscience", all of which contributed their own unique takes on the study of mind.

    Psychology:
    
    Modern day definition of psychology "the study of behavior and mental processes", is a nice amalgamation that pulls from all these different schools of thought.
    
    It recognizes the need for observing and recording behavior, but it also gives credit to our mental processes, what we think and feel and believe.
    
    Psychology is an integrative science and while there are different school of thoughts & theories, the essence of the discipline has everything to do with creating different ways of asking interesting questions and attempting to answer them through all kinds of data-gathering methods.
    
    The human mind is complicated.
    
    There is no single way to effectively crack it open; it must be pried at from all sides.

    Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich has gazed into the distant horizon of space, and even he has acknowledged that the human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos, and we all get to have one!

17. Hank always reminds me of Doctor Who and Sheldon Cooper combined together…

18. I'm here to learn English and turn my negative thinking into positive thinking.

19. sooo here i am, a little deunk at 1am, on a crahs course for fun?

20. John green is our generations social studies Bill Nye

21. [06-10-20]

    •First Psychology class, yey.
    •Mr. Green is my new teacher now, huh. Well, hello mister!
    •I'm just here because I'm interested in psychology now (after meteorology, doctoring, astronomy, etc., oh you don't wanna know the rest).
    •Mr. Green is sooo funny, hahaha. I love his nerd-jokes stuff and that "Brain Fart" got me dying.

22. Let's admit, this teacher looks handsome.

23. You should talk a little slower, i can't always understand you

24. Is the pop-up that says that Principles of Physiological Psychology was written by James and not Wundt wrong or did he say it wrong?

25. Good

26. principles of physiological psychology book is mistakenly stated as written by william james 3:42

27. that moment when you talk so fast that it's normal when you hear others do it

28. Whos here in 2030🦖

29. It’s weird how most of us living on earth will never meet or even acknowledge each other’s existence. For example, if you’re reading my comment; this is probably the first and last time you’ll ever see me.

30. I completed my graduation in human development we always learned about Sigmund Freud and b.f Skinner if I would have found this earlier I would be sort out for life now I am just watching because I am interested

31. watch out dont be commenting when you should be teaching yo kids lol weirdos

32. I’m so bored I choosing to actually learn what I didn’t learn in class.

33. I was wondering who the guy from crash course reminded me of…. it just hit me BILL GATES!

34. Psychology is honestly so interesting. I want to be a lawyer when I grow up but I'm probably going to study psychology too. Hopefully, I can pass the rest of middle school and high school well enough to get into a good college.

35. ''What i really want you to take home.''
    lol i am home i just need to take this to school XD

36. If the heart isn’t the seed than what is?

37. No the stereotype of the psychologist looks like you

38. Hi to anyone in my psychology class 🥺🥰

39. It has been 4 years, past my college days when I was mostly open crash course world history and economy (I was International Relation Student) while eating my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Today I am a struggle grown man trying to study my self, and of course with my best lecture, my best friend Crash Course without crashing snacks cause I am on a diet :-(. But the music though, it hits me with such a joy, never in my life, I imagine I would be smiling while entering a class! Stay awesome crash course, You're the gems of the Internet!

40. Correction on the etymology and origin of the word Psychology, it's orgin is Ancient Greek. 

    1650s, "study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhē "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from Christian Wolff's "Psychologia empirica" (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from early 1890s.

41. I heard psychoanalysis was pseudoscience

42. I'm sure many people have already said this, but the etymology of psychology is defs Greek (not Latin)

43. Did anyone make any notes for this series?

44. My school took away psychology classes soo here I am

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