5 Amazing Psychology Experiments

Overview

Learn More About Human Nature Through 5 Interesting and Engaging Studies in Social Psychology What you'll learn:

Gain insight into simple changes that make big differences in learning, liking, judgment, and perception.Use psychological research to reach your personal goals and desires.Consider ways of using real psychological science to solve the big problems of our day. UPDATE:

All videos in this course now come with complete English subtitles.

Join more than 7,000 students learning about interesting research in psychology! If you've ever wanted an easy way to start learning about psychology, this is the course for you!

In this free course, you'll learn about 5 studies in psychology and see how their results reveal interesting things about human thought and behavior. The studies in this course reveal… how we can persuade someone to do what we want without even providing good reasonswhy praising some kids for their intelligence vs. their hard word dramatically changed their test scoreswhy people who held a hot cup of coffee instead of an iced coffee automatically started thinking a stranger was especially generous and caring…and more!Carefully designed experiments tell us a great deal about the choices we make, the ways we behave, and why we think the way we do.

I'm a social psychologist myself, and I thought about which studies most interested me early in my education and which studies are my current favorites. I even reached out to my colleagues to ask them what studies have most inspired them and are important for everyone to know about.

So enroll in this fun introductory course and start seeing how simple research in psychology tells us amazing things about human thought and behavior! This course is a special selection of lectures on experiments in social psychology.

For a more advanced course, please check out “Quickly Understand Social Psychology," available here on Udemy.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Experimental Psychology
Overview of key concepts
Importance of experiments in psychology
• Experiment 1: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Background and purpose
Methodology and execution
Results and implications
Ethical considerations
• Experiment 2: The Milgram Obedience Study
Background and purpose
Methodology and execution
Results and implications
Ethical considerations
• Experiment 3: The Asch Conformity Experiments
Background and purpose
Methodology and execution
Results and implications
Ethical considerations
• Experiment 4: The Bobo Doll Experiment
Background and purpose
Methodology and execution
Results and implications
Ethical considerations
• Experiment 5: The Little Albert Experiment
Background and purpose
Methodology and execution
Results and implications
Ethical considerations
• Conclusion
Summary of key takeaways
Impact of these experiments on the field of psychology
• Supplementary Materials
Resources for further reading
Discussion forums and Q&A sessions
• Final Assessment
Review of course content
Quiz or project based on the experiments

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Taught by

Andrew Luttrell, Ph.D.

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Subjects

Social Sciences