Duration of the online course: 23 hours and 1 minutes
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Understanding why people think, feel, and act the way they do can improve everyday decisions, strengthen communication, and open doors to study or work in health-related fields. This free online Introduction to Psychology course offers a clear, evidence-based path into the science of the mind, connecting real human experiences with the research methods used to explain them. You will build a practical foundation in psychology while learning how psychologists turn observations into testable ideas and meaningful conclusions.
Across the course, you will explore how the brain supports perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, and personality, and how these processes shape behavior in daily life. You will also see how learning occurs through experience and how mental functions can change under different conditions, from stress to neurological disruption. The emphasis is on understanding mechanisms rather than memorizing definitions, so you can confidently interpret common claims about behavior, evaluate evidence, and spot the difference between intuition and scientific explanation.
To keep your learning active, the course pairs lectures with short exercises that prompt you to recall key concepts, reason through classic examples, and apply ideas to new situations. These check-ins help you identify what you understand, what you need to review, and how the pieces fit together as a coherent framework. Whether you are curious about psychology, planning further study, or simply want a stronger scientific lens on human behavior, you will finish with a well-rounded grasp of foundational principles and the habits of mind used in modern psychological science.
Video class: Lec 1 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
49m
Exercise: What is the primary focus of the Introductory to Psychology course mentioned in the transcript?
Video class: Lec 2 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h11m
Exercise: _What is the method of studying human behavior that involves single stories that are illustrative of broader principles, as discussed in the reading for today?
Video class: Lec 3 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
54m
Exercise: _What is generating the songs that Mrs. OC hears due to her temporal lobe seizures?
Video class: Lec 4 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h11m
Exercise: _What are the three methods used to study the human brain?
Video class: Lec 5 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
40m
Exercise: _What are the two major purposes of vision that researchers have identified?
Video class: Lec 6 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
56m
Exercise: _What is agnosia and how many types of agnosia are there?
Video class: Lec 7 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
42m
Exercise: _What is attention according to William James?
Video class: Lec 8 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
49m
Exercise: _What is blindsight?
Video class: Lec 9 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
46m
Exercise: What can classical conditioning teach us?
Video class: Lec 10 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
55m
Exercise: _What is the difference between bottom-up memory and top-down memory?
Video class: Lec 11 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
58m
Exercise: _What is Korsakoff's Syndrome?
Video class: Lec 12 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
53m
Exercise: What is the term for the aspect of language that enables infants to distinguish sounds not present in their native language during early months of life?
Video class: Lec 13 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h07m
Exercise: How many miles will the bird fly before the trains meet?
Video class: Lec 14 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h12m
Exercise: _What is the correlation between SATs or GREs and how faculty rates students or how productive people are in terms of research or as a graduate student?
Video class: Lec 15 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h00m
Exercise: _What is the focus of the lecture on emotions in psychology?
Video class: Lec 16 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h00m
Exercise: What is the most famous and widely used model for measuring personality?
Video class: Lec 17 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
33m
Exercise: _What is neotony and how is it related to babies' cuteness?
Video class: Lec 18 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h11m
Exercise: _What is the answer to the riddle "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening?"
Video class: Lec 19 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
1h11m
Exercise: What was a key finding about the types of stress faced by zebras?
Video class: Lec 20 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011
51m
Exercise: _What is the estimated percentage of individuals who, at some point in their life, will qualify for meeting some psychiatric disorder?
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Course comments: Introduction to Psychology
Guilherme
Despite not having prior knowledge in the Class, i really like the teacher, he was the reason why i sticked until the end.
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I'm glad to have this course for free. MIT is always the dream!!.
Heather
Some answers do not match up nor A. B. or C. was the answer on question excercise 14.
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This is the most interesting course, and I will make sure that I keep on learning and researching more about it.
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