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1) How we learn
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English
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"This course explores the newest research on how we acquire new knowledge and skills- from birth through late life. We now know that learning depends on what is learned, how and why it is learned, and by whom, and each of these issues will be examined throughout the course."--p. 1 of course guidebook.
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English
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"The concept of human intelligence is sometimes controversial, but tow things are surely true. First no matter how "intelligence" is defined, you know someone who is not as intelligent as you are. Second, intelligence has something to do with the brain. New neuroscience tools, especially brain imaging, are revealing what a smart brain looks like and helping researchers understand the neural mechanisms of what makes one person learn faster, remember...
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English
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This set of lectures examines the relationship between the human brain and spirituality. Relying on the latest theories and research from neuroscience, psychology, and other behavioral sciences, each lecture in this course addresses provocative questions about human spirituality.
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English
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This course teaches you entirely new ways to understand human beings as a species and explores the biological root of human behaviors. This series of lectures will illustrate many of the ways we are just like other animals, ways we use similar physiology in completely novel ways, and way in which there is simply no precedent in the animal kingdom for what we do.