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Dr.JingQian is an expert in many areas of psychology in Tsinghua University.She will lead us to exploring psychology's core concepts.

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Professor Qian will guide us to learn a series of lectures that will help us to understand the human nature ,our behavior,and to understand the behaviors of others.

she introduce the textbook we use is called psychology core concepts,7th edition.the authors are philip G.zimbardo and others. meanwhile, Dr.Zimbardo give our his introduction about this series of lectures and express his greet friendly to chinese students who learn this courses.

what is Phychology?

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Mind isa rather innate process.mental process are hard to infer, but usually psychologists tend to study what is called "behavior".

what's Behavior?

-Behavior is any action can be observed and measured by other people.

-Behavior has many levels

1.Choices and Responses

2.Micro expressions

3.Physical movements(non-verbal)

eg. eye movement

4.Brain activity recorded by various equipment

eg.Neurons firing. Blood flow .BOLD(Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent)signal. Electroencephalogram/EEG. Transranial Magnetic Stimulation/TMS

（Imaging,listening,intervention）

4.Perspiration

eg.Biopac. lie detectors

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