Archive of Lecture Slides
Motivation Psychology - Winter Semester 2019/2020
- Introduction to Motivation Psychology
- Methodological Foundations
- FREUD's Psychoanalytic Theory of Motivation
- HULL's Behaviorist Theory of Motivation
- The System of B. F. Skinner
- The Field Theory of Kurt Lewin
- ATKINSON's Achievement Motivation Theory
- Attribution Theories
- Attributional Theories
- Psychology of Volition
You can access the slides for the currently ongoing lectures via Teaching/Bachelor's Degree Program.
Emotion Psychology - Summer Semester 2020
- Introduction
- How it All Began
- Our Evolutionary Heritage I: The Contribution of Charles Darwin
- Our Evolutionary Heritage II: The Contribution of William McDougall
- On the Passive Acquisition of Emotions: Pavlov, Watson, and Classical Conditioning
- The Ghost in the Machine I: William James, Walter Cannon, Gregorio Marañón
- The Ghost in the Machine II: Thinking and Feeling – Being Mistaken About One's Own Body, Better Understanding and Controlling One's Own Body
- I think, therefore I feel ...? Part 1: Thinking, Feeling, Coping
- I think, therefore I feel II: The Human as a Naive Scientist and Moral Judge
- Moral Emotions: The Human as a Moral Judge and Our Sense of Right and Wrong
- Children Grow Up: Attachment and Emotional Development
You can access the slides for the currently ongoing lectures via Teaching/Bachelor's Degree Program.
Biopsychology - Summer Semester 2020
- Introduction and Methods
- Heredity, Environment, and Behavior
- Anatomy of the NS
- Neuronal Development
- Excitation Generation, Excitation Conduction, and Synaptic Transmission
- Neurotransmitters and the Endocrine System
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Perception
- Sensorimotor Function
- Learning and Memory
- Circadian Periodicity and Sleep
- Emotions
- Drug Addiction
Biopsychology - Summer Semester 2019
- Introduction
- Anatomy of the Nervous System
- Nerve Conduction and Synaptic Transmission
- Research Methods of Biopsychology
- Visual System and Mechanisms of Perception
- Memory and Amnesia
- Sleep, Dreams & Circadian Rhythms
- Hunger and Eating
- Hormones and Sexuality
- Drugs and the Reward Centers of the Brain
- Lateralization, Language, and Split-Brain
- On the Biopsychology of Mental Disorders
- Neuronal Development
- Some Conclusions and Suggestions
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Evolutionary Psychology - Winter Semester 2019/2020
- Introduction
- Darwin & Darwin's Heritage: The Foundations
- A Fundamental Distinction: Natural Selection and Sexual Selection
- The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
- Thinking and Language
- Mating Systems and Mate Choice from an Anthropological Perspective
- Cooperation and Conflict
- Mental Illnesses from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective
- Culture, Genes, Memes
- Morality and Moral Emotions
- Inclusive Fitness and Parental Love
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Master's Lecture - Summer Semester 2020
- Introduction
- McDonald & Leary: Social Pain
- Bandelow et al. (2010): Borderline Personality Disorder
- Odgers et al. (2010): Protective Effects of Neighborhoods
- Paul Eastwick (2009): Beyond Pleistocene
- Gräfenhein, Behne, Carpenter & Tomasello (2009): Young Children‘s Understanding of Joint Commitments
- Appelhans & Luecken (2006): Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding
- Warneken & Tomasello (2006): Roots of Human Altruism
- Werner, Simonian, Bierman, Fern & French (1967): Cumulative Effects of prenatal complications and deprived
environment on physical, intellectual, and social development of preschool children. - Weiner, Osborne & Rudolph (2010): An Attributional Analysis of Reactions to Poverty
You can access the slides for the currently ongoing lectures via Teaching/Master's Degree Program.