Social Psychology Lectures: Recent Episodes

Dana C. Leighton

Lectures given to support my PSY 216 Social Psychology course at Portland Community College, Portland Oregon, USA. Only the last half of the class is being podcast. These are ENHANCED podcasts -- open your artwork & video viewer to see the slides.

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Covers Interpersonal liking.

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Stereotyping - prejudice - discrimination. Explicit vs. implicit attitudes. Attitude measurement. Implicit Association Test.

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Covers the basis of prejudice - social cognition including prototypes, concepts, and stereotypes.

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WARNING: Audio problems (silent at beginning; static at end). Aggression theories: Social Learning and Frustration. Antecedents to aggression.

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Part 1 of aggression. Covers definitions, theoretical perspectives. Specifically, the biological perspective: instinct, neurobiology, and genetics.

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Cognitive dissonance processes

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This episode covers memory, schemas, heuristics, and biases.

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This episode covers cognitive aspects of social cognition.