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This survey course introduces all the major areas of psychology, from its origins in the fusing of medicine and biology with philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, through the emphasis on psychology as the science of behavior.

Included are such diverse topics as: mental health, stress and coping; consciousness, sleep and dreams; psychopathology and its various treatments; social psychology; emotion and motivation; memory; intelligence; language; hypnosis; types of learning; sensation and perception; and the relationship of the nervous system to thoughts, feelings and behaviors.