Episodes
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Psychology, Rhetoric & The Royal Family - Talk by Michael Billig (1989)
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Sep 14, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lecture 17 & 18)
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 17: Behaviourism & Gestalt Psychology
(John Watson, B. F Skinner, rejection of introspection, environmental adjustment, terminology, laws of thinking, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, wholes, patterns, relationships, schema, (un)observability)
52:57 Lecture 18: Revision Lecture
Friday Sep 14, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lecture 16)
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 16: Rise of the Experimental Method
(Laboratory experiments, statistics, exercise of power, Wilhelm Wundt, experimenter/observer, universal processes, Francis Galton, comparative analysis, perfunctory relations, correlation, Kurt Danziger, experimental journals, aggregate data, natural/artificial groups)
Friday Aug 31, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 14&15)
Friday Aug 31, 2018
Friday Aug 31, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 14: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): On humour
(Hidden motives, Wundt’s association experiments, repression as denial, slips of the tongue, psychoanalysis, theory of humour, ‘rebellion’, release theory, joke work, innocent vs. tendentious jokes, self-deceit, morality, racism)
58:01 Lecture 15: William James (1842-1910)
(Principles of Psychology (1890), method and theory, psychological ‘discipline’, Ernest Hilgard, psychologising, mental states, stream of consciousness, specious present, perception, actions, descriptions, methodical restriction)
Friday Aug 31, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 12&13)
Friday Aug 31, 2018
Friday Aug 31, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 12: Francis Galton (1822-1911)
(Charles Darwin, unity versus diversity, differences, survival of the fittest, a child prodigy, an adult polymath, race and racism, Hereditary Genius (1869), English Men of Science (1874), questionnaires, race characteristics, measurement and statistics, correlation, eugenics, racial politics)
57:57 Lecture 13: Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
(Experimental method, observation, science of experience, biases of observation, Immanuel Kant, measuring sensation, Ernst Weber, perception of differences, Gustav Fechner, introspection, schema, experiments, psychology of behaviour, apperception, folk psychology)
Friday Aug 17, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lecture 11)
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 11: Charles Darwin (Pt.2) (1809-1882)
(Individual motivation, inherited characteristics, Decent of Man (1871), behavioural universals, human nature, social instincts, morality, race, common ancestry, the Tierra del Fuegans, universality of language, Noam Chomsky, innate ideas, grammatical rules, Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), cross-cultural similarities, displays of emotion, adaptive function of behaviour, the principle of Antithesis, inheritance, adaption)
Friday Aug 17, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 9&10)
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 9: Hobbes, Locke, & Shaftesbury: On humour
(Underlying motive, Passions of the Mind, Superiority Theory of Laughter, cognitive approach, wit and judgement, metaphor, atomism, social function of humour, political freedom, mockery, theory of knowledge)
51:52 Lecture 10: Charles Darwin (Pt.1) (1809-1882)
(Emotion and physiology, Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolution, Charlotte Corday, synthesis, idea and mechanism of evolution, natural history, Galapagos Islands, common ancestry, Origin of Species, natural selection, sexual selection, evolution)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 7&8)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 7: Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) (Hobbes/Locke review, atomism, laws of motion, critical psychology, language, First Earl of Shaftesbury, the foster father, holistic approach, innate predispositions, social attachment, social interaction)
55:00 Lecture 8: Thomas Reid (1710-1796) (David Hume, philosophy of common sense, discursive psychology, critiquing the concept of ‘ideas’, the senses, J. J. Gibson, direct perception, the ecological view of perception)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 5&6)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 5: John Locke (1632-1704) (Behaviourism, cognitive psychology, empirical method, Earl of Shaftesbury, Glorious Revolution, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), ideas, nature and nurture, God, mathematics, tabula rasa)
52:04 Lecture 6: John Locke (cont.) (Theory of knowledge, cognitive model, theory of perception, objective knowledge, reflection, association, cognitive structure, egalitarianism, religion)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
The Billig Lectures (Lectures 3&4)
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 3: The nature and history of psychology (Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the nature of human beings, Stanley Milgram, socio-historical context)
50:13 Lecture 4: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) (psychology of the individual, democracy, English history, Oliver Cromwell, the monarchy, religion, politics, analytic method, morality)