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Class Sessions1. Introduction2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain3. Foundations: Freud4. Foundations: Skinner5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part IIMidterm ExamBrain and Perception (Guest Lecture by Professor Marvin Chun)13. Why Are People Different?: Differences14. What Motivates Us: SexThe Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food (Guest Lecture by Professor Kelly Brownell)15. A Person in the World of People: Morality16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II20. The Good Life: HappinessFinal Exam