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课程重点
心理学就是研究心智的科学。它是一门科学，因为心理学的目标在以最少的假设解释最多的事实，心理学的假设容许被实征检验推翻，心理学的理论合理地衔接其他科学，特别是生物学。不过心理学也紧密地衔接社会科学，因为当个别的人对其他人有所知觉与反应的时候，社会现象就产生了。而心理学又与艺术和人文学科有关连，因为这些作品是人类心智的产物。
Psychology is the science of the mind. It is a science because it aims to explain the greatest number of facts with the fewest number of assumptions, its hypotheses are supposed to be falsifiable by empirical tests, and its theories are lawfully connected to other sciences, particularly biology. But psychology is also intimately connected to the social sciences, because social phenomena arise when individual people perceive and react to one another. And it is connected to the arts and humanities, because works of art and scholarship are products of the human mind.
课程描述
心理学的第一门课程：我们如何思考、观察、感觉、学习、说话、行动、成长、恐惧、喜欢、爱恋、憎恨、欲望、和互动。最大的争议：先天与后天、自由意志、意识、人类个体差异、自我与社会。大部分是实验与社会心理学，相关主题包括生物学、哲学、语言学、经济学、人类学、以及艺术。
A first course in psychology: how we think, see, feel, learn, talk, act, grow, fear, like, love, hate, lust, and interact. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Largely experimental and social psychology, with relevant ideas from biology, philosophy, linguistics, economics, anthropology, and the arts.
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