Chapter 8: Rationality
Paul and David discuss human rationality and its limitations, including the heuristics-and-biases approach, System 1 and System 2, positive illusions, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and consp...
24 Apr 202356min
Chapter 7: Sensation, Perception, and Memory
How do we get the external world into our heads? In this episode, Paul and David cover a few of the more interesting features of sensation, perception, and memory. What can visual illusions tell us ab...
17 Apr 20231h 1min
Chapter 6: Language
In this episode Paul and David discuss another of Paul's area of expertise--language. What is language? Do any animals have it? How does it develop (and how do children learn it so fast)? Why do child...
10 Apr 20231h 14min
Chapter 5: Piaget and Development
Paul and David discuss the influential developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, his theories and legacy, stage theories of development, modern developmental psychology and its methods, and the "nature ...
3 Apr 202357min
Chapter 4: B.F. Skinner and Behaviorism
Slot machines, phobias and superstitions, dog training techniques, cures for insomnia... behaviorism has something to say about all of these (and much more!). The scope and ambition of B.F. Skinner's ...
27 Mar 20231h 8min
Chapter 3: Freud
Paul and David discuss Freud's legacy in psychology and culture, why he should continue to be taught, his theories of the unconscious and psychosexual development, the oedipal conflict, the efficacy o...
20 Mar 202355min
Chapter 2: Consciousness
Paul and David tackle one of the most difficult questions when it comes to the mind--consciousness. What is it? Can a computer be conscious? What do psychologists mean when they use the term conscious...
13 Mar 202358min
Chapter 1: The Brain
In this episode, Paul and David discuss the human brain. Is psychology just brain science? Is the brain a computer? What are brains made of and how do they work? Are people right or left brained? What...
6 Mar 202359min
