Archive of Lecture Slides

Emotion Psychology - Summer Semester 2020

1. Introduction
2. How it All Began
3. Our Evolutionary Heritage I: The Contribution of Charles Darwin
4. Our Evolutionary Heritage II: The Contribution of William McDougall
5. On the Passive Acquisition of Emotions: Pavlov, Watson, and Classical Conditioning
6. The Ghost in the Machine I: William James, Walter Cannon, Gregorio Marañón
7. The Ghost in the Machine II: Thinking and Feeling – Being Mistaken About One's Own Body, Better Understanding and Controlling One's Own Body
8. I think, therefore I feel ...? Part 1: Thinking, Feeling, Coping
9. I think, therefore I feel II: The Human as a Naive Scientist and Moral Judge
10. Moral Emotions: The Human as a Moral Judge and Our Sense of Right and Wrong
11. Children Grow Up: Attachment and Emotional Development

 

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Biopsychology - Summer Semester 2020

1. Introduction and Methods
2. Heredity, Environment, and Behavior
3. Anatomy of the NS
4. Neuronal Development
5. Excitation Generation, Excitation Conduction, and Synaptic Transmission
6. Neurotransmitters and the Endocrine System
7. Neuronal Plasticity
8. Perception
9. Sensorimotor Function
10. Learning and Memory
11. Circadian Periodicity and Sleep
12. Emotions
13. Drug Addiction

Biopsychology - Summer Semester 2019

1. Introduction 
2. Anatomy of the Nervous System
3. Nerve Conduction and Synaptic Transmission
4. Research Methods of Biopsychology
5. Visual System and Mechanisms of Perception
6. Memory and Amnesia
7. Sleep, Dreams & Circadian Rhythms
8. Hunger and Eating
9. Hormones and Sexuality
10. Drugs and the Reward Centers of the Brain
11. Lateralization, Language, and Split-Brain
12. On the Biopsychology of Mental Disorders
13. Neuronal Development
14. Some Conclusions and Suggestions

 

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Evolutionary Psychology - Winter Semester 2019/2020

1. Introduction 
2. Darwin & Darwin's Heritage: The Foundations
3. A Fundamental Distinction: Natural Selection and Sexual Selection
4. The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
5. Thinking and Language 
6. Mating Systems and Mate Choice from an Anthropological Perspective
7. Cooperation and Conflict
8. Mental Illnesses from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective
9.  Culture, Genes, Memes
10.  Morality and Moral Emotions
11. Inclusive Fitness and Parental Love 

 

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Master's Lecture - Summer Semester 2020

1. Introduction
2. McDonald & Leary: Social Pain
3. Bandelow et al. (2010): Borderline Personality Disorder
4. Odgers et al. (2010): Protective Effects of Neighborhoods
5. Paul Eastwick (2009): Beyond Pleistocene
6. Gräfenhein, Behne, Carpenter & Tomasello (2009): Young Children‘s Understanding of Joint Commitments
7. Appelhans & Luecken (2006): Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding
8. Warneken & Tomasello (2006): Roots of Human Altruism
9. Werner, Simonian, Bierman, Fern & French (1967): Cumulative Effects of prenatal complications and deprived
   environment on physical, intellectual, and social development of preschool children.
10. Weiner, Osborne & Rudolph (2010): An Attributional Analysis of Reactions to Poverty

 

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