Discovering Psychology
A video instructional series on introductory psychology for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 26 half-hour video programs.
'Highlighting major new developments in the field, this updated edition of Discovering Psychology offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior. Stanford University professor and author Philip Zimbardo narrates as leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body. Based on extensive investigation and authoritative scholarship, this introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review the subject matter.'
Produced by WGBH Boston with the American Psychological Association. 1990, 2001.
More info: www.learner.org/resources/series138.html
1. Past, Present, and Promise
2. Understanding Research
3. The Behaving Brain
4. The Responsive Brain
5. The Developing Child
6. Language Development
7. Sensation and Perception
8. Learning
9. Remembering and Forgetting
10. Cognitive Processes
11. Judgement and Decision Making
12. Motivation and Emotion
13. The Mind Awake and Asleep
14. The Mind Hidden and Divided
15. The Self
16. Testing and Intelligence
17. Sex and Gender
18. Maturing and Aging
19. The Power of the Situation
20. Constructing Social Reality
21. Psychopathology
22. Psychotherapy
23. Health, Mind, and Behavior
24. Applying Psychology in Life
25. Cognitive Neuroscience
26. Cultural Psychology