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Professor Paul Bloom: I'd like to welcome people to

My name is Dr. Paul Bloom. I'm professor of this course.

And what this is going to be is a comprehensive introduction to

the study of the human mind. So, we are going to cover a

very, very wide range of topics including brains,

and many others. We're going to talk about

things like the proper explanation for differences

between men and women; the question of whether animals

can learn language; the puzzle of what grosses us

eat too much and what we could do to stop;

the question of why people go crazy in groups;

research into whether you could trust your childhood memories;

research into why some of us get depressed and others don't.

The style of this is there'll be two lectures a week,

as well as course readings. Now, to do well in the course,

you have to attend both the lectures and do the readings.

There will be some overlap. In some cases,

the lectures will be quite linked to the readings.

But there will be some parts of the readings that will not find

their way into the lectures, and some lectures--some entire

lectures that will not connect at all to the readings.

So, to pursue this course properly you have to do both.

What this means is that if you miss a class you need to get

notes, and so you should get them from a friend or from the

person sitting next to you. The slides are going to be made

available online. So, one of the things you don't

have to do is you don't have to write this down.

You take notes any way you choose, but if you don't get

anything on there it'll be available online.

I'm going to post it in a format which will be black and

white and easy to print out so you don't have to worry about

slides is not a substitute for attending class.

There's a textbook, Peter Gray's Psychology,

5th edition, and there's also a collection of short readings,

It's an excellent textbook; it's an excellent collection,

and you should get them both. They're available at Labyrinth

bookstore on York Street or you get them online.

I should note that last time I taught the course I used the

Marcus Reader, and when Professor Marvin Chun

taught his course last semester he used Peter Gray's 5^(th)

edition textbook. So, there may be a lot of used

copies floating around. You should feel free to try to

get one of those. The evaluation goes like this.

The Final will not be held in the exam period,

The exams will be multiple choice and short answer,

Prior to the exams I will post previous exams online,

so you have a feeling for how these exams work and so on.

Starting at the beginning of the third week of class – that

is not next week but the week after – on each Monday I'm

going to put up a brief question or set of questions,

which you have to answer and your answers need to be sent to

your teaching fellow. And you'll be given a teaching

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work,

but the point of the question--15,20 minutes of work,

but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up

These questions will be marked pass, fail.

I expect most everybody could pass all of the questions but

it's just to keep you on track and keep you going.

There is a book review, a short book review,

to be written towards near the end of the class.

I'll give details about that later on in the semester.

And there's also an experimental participation

requirement, and next week I'll hand out a piece of paper

describing the requirement. The point of the requirement is

to give you all experience actually seeing what

psychological research is about as well as to give us hundreds

The issue sometimes comes up as to how to do well in the course.

Here's how to do well. Attend all the classes.

Keep up with the readings. Ideally, keep up with the

And one thing I would strongly suggest is to form some sort of

study groups, either formally or informally.

Have people you could talk to when the--prior to the exams

what I'm going to do, not this class because it's

shopping period. I don't know who's coming next

class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior,

at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce

themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of

resource in the class. Now, this is a large class,

and if you don't do anything about it, it can be very

pursue it that way and that's totally fine.

But what I would suggest you do is establish some contact with