Course HackMaking Sense of OurselvesBy The Open University
In a Nutshell
This Open University course introduces some of the most important concepts and discoveries in psychology to help us better understand our behavior and motivations.
Favorite Quote
The combination of prior knowledge, experience, and context assist and develop the brain to make shortcuts, without which we would struggle to make sense of situations while being overloaded with processing demands.
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Introduction
Why do we struggle to get along with each other? Why do we choose to spend our lives with certain people? Does everybody see the world in the same way?
Psychologists have asked and answered questions about human behavior for years, and we now have a more comprehensive understanding of the brain than ever before.
Making Sense of Ourselves is a course from The Open University.
Beginning with simple questions about how the brain works, the course delves into research done by psychologists and their approaches to decoding the human brain.
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