IU - Psychological and Brain Sciences Department

Video Collection

The department has a wide selection of videos available for check out to departmental personnel only.

The following videos are available for checkout in the main office:

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M - P

Q -Z

Abnormal Psychology Volume I (CNN Today, 2000)
Abnormal Psychology Volume II (CNN Today, 2000)
Abnormal Psychology Inside Out Video I
Abnormal Psychology Inside Out Video II
Abnormal Psychology Inside Out Volume II
Abnormal Psychology Inside Out Volume III
Abnormal Psychology: Mood Disorders

Depression is one of the most common psychological problems. In this program, psychologists and biologists look at the causes and treatment of both depression and bipolar disorder and show the progress that has been made in helping people return to productive and satisfying lives.
Abnormal Psychology: Personality Disorders

Examines four personality disorder types: Obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline. Includes basic overview of personality, character traits, and disorder, discussion about patients dealing with each disorder and their symptoms, historical and current theories about possible causes of the disorder, as well as some treatment options.
Abnormal Psychology: Substance Abuse Disorders

Millions of Americans abuse alcohol, cigarettes, and cocaine. Health professionals know a great deal about these dangerous and costly disorders, including how to treat them. This program examines how the concept of treatment matching is used to help individuals overcome a variety of addictions.
The Adapting Brain
Applying to Graduate School: Life as a Student
Autism: History and Update (PBS, 2002)

This film talks about the struggle mothers who had autistic children back in the 1950s and 60s when doctors blamed the autism on the mother or parents instead of the neurological factors. The story documents and tells how mothers and children had to cope with losing their child and being blamed for it as well. This led to mothers being labeled them refrigerator moms.
Back From Madness: The Struggle for Sanity

This film documents four different types of disorders (manic depression, severe depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia) by following four different individuals though their trails while trying live a ordinary life (over a 2 year span). The film breaks down their experiences and really gives you a decent look at how people with these disorders live as well as how they seek treatment for these disorders and their response.
Behavior Theory in Practice - Condensed

This film follows the two different forms of conditioning, which are classical and operant behavior. The film breaks down each of these two and then shows visual representation of how they form different responses in different animals. The animals range from dogs jumping and salivating, to monkeys and pigeons pecking or hitting a lever to get food. The film also talks a little about reaction formation. There is a second part to the film that continues this discussion but deals with rats and humans. It shows how the specimen reacts and what method they used to get that response.

This film has two parts, the first film talks about generalization in behavior. It shows that some animals use the same behavior despite what the stimuli is based on the reward. The film then goes on to talk about discrimination and how the animals are being tested for discrimination. It also tells the proper way and rules that must be used in order to get the desired response. The film then goes on to talk about positive reinforcing, and how rate and response determine if it is positive or negative. Punishment is also talked about and is differentiated from negative reinforcement. Film four deals with homogeneous chains, which are when a subject does multiple events but the reward doesn’t come until the end. The film talks about how you can construct a chain in a animal to get the response you want.
Behavioral Treatment of Autistic Children
Biology, Brain, and Behavior: Analysis of Behavior

This film talked about interpreting animal movements and gestures to better understand what animals when you see certain motions. Film documents birds in their habitat and has portions for group participation.
Biology, Brain, and Behavior: Stress

Portrays stress as a threatening intrusion that causes blood pressure to rise, the heart to beat faster, hormones to be released, blood sugar to elevate, metabolism to increase, and the body to prepare for fight or flight. Notes that stress cannot be fought or run from, and that over time it will wear down the body. Discusses the consequences of stress and shows how the study of tree shrews contributes to an understanding of it and the ways in which the body reacts to it.
Brain Develops Mind

Neurons – pictures, but not very good.
Zebra fish, among others, are animals we observe to understand neural development

Cells must be generated and they must migrate, then they have to form collections. The main point is how, on a cellular level, the brain develops.

Questions whether environment post partum, can affect the visual system. Experiment with kitten – deprived of sight in one eye first 8 weeks of development, visual system never recovers.

Schematic diagram of the visual system of infants is presented, but isn’t very interesting.

Emotional development:
1) infants are distressed
2) when infants are forced to attend to a novel stimuli, they seem not attention is more complex than this.

Learning:
Makes a distinction between declarative and procedural knowledge.
Examples of amnesic patients show that they learn procedural knowledge without ever being able to recall learning it.

Cognition:
Basic conceptions of the world occur early and these conceptions tend to remain stable over time.
During first year of life, infants visual system underdeveloped.
Infants’ knowledge of physical objects is somewhat sophisticated.

Piaget – what infants know isn’t seen in studies of object permanence.
4 months – didn’t think twice
5 months – can orient toward where object should be
6 months – can perform rudimentary search
6-12 months – can actually search several spaces
Brain, Our Universe Within: Evolution and Perception

Evolution
Even after birth, evolution continues in our brains. New experiences actually alter the brain's physical architecture when neurotransmitters – message-carrying chemicals – cross the synapses. Join scientists as they try to identify these chemicals and learn the effect their transfer has on our state of mind.

Perception

Although we all start with the same basic neuronal architecture, our life experiences physically change our mental make-up – and the way we perceive information from our senses. Explore each of the five senses – following the pathway from the sensory neurons, through the thalamus, to the cortex – and learn what happens when you get your sensory wires crossed.
Brain, Our Universe Within: Matter Over Mind

Explore the mental faculties that are most difficult to define – consciousness, creativity, emotions and sense of self. Could each of these nebulous states of mind be controlled by a single neurotransmitter? If so, the possibilities for revolutionary neuro-therapy are endless.

Discover the chemicals behind cognition and journey inside the mind for a look at what makes us all tick.
Brain, Our Universe Within: Memory and Renewal

Memory
An aneurysm deep in the "reptilian brain" of former law student Jeremy Cuss left him amnesic – proving that the hippocampus is linked to short-term memory. How can this help doctors cure Alzheimer's, one of the most debilitating brain diseases known?

The Miraculous Mind
Learn how the brain's ability to reconnect neural pathways after severe injury, such as a stroke, may be its most remarkable characteristic. The secret may be in a tiny bundle of 6,000 neurons in the brain stem – altogether, the size of a pea.
The Brain Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 1 - 15:
- Organization and Evaluation of Brain Function
  
  This module introduces the general external topography of the brain. To illustrate the relationship between specific behaviors and brain function, the module begins by showing a racecar driver exercising his skill, and then presents graphic illustrations of the internal activity of his brain. The module reviews several methods of studying brain activity including the CAT scan, PET scan, EEG, and MRI.
- The Effects of Hormones and the Environment on Brain Development
  
  This module presents some startling and significant findings relating to the effects of sex hormones on brain development. Beginning with in utero photography and then visiting an animal laboratory, this module shows how Dr. Marian Diamond’s ground-breaking research has revealed structural differences in the brains of men and women, as well as factors influencing these differences.
- Gender Development: Social Influences
  
  Shifting from the biological focus of the previous module, this segment shows how social factors affect gender-specific behaviors. Mother-child interactions are shown, illustrating typical differences in how male and female children are treated, and how this treatment affects gender identity, roles, and expectations, and perceived differences in ability.
- Intelligence and Culture
  
  The issue of cultural bias in testing is explored in this module, presenting Judy Kearins’s work with Australian children. White and aboriginal children are shown to perform differently on visual/spatial tasks, and use different methods to arrive at solutions to the problems presented. Theories of cultural influence on cognitive processing and the shaping of the brain are suggested as explanations for tested differences in ability.
- The Divided Brain
  
  This module begins with graphic representations of the cerebral hemispheres’ specialized functions. It continues with a description of the brain’s asymmetry, showing diagrams of how the two halves communicate. The extreme case of a patient who has undergone split-brain surgery for treatment of epilepsy illustrates the role of hemispheric organization in sensory perception and verbal skills.
- Language and Speech: Broca's and Wernicke's Areas
  
  The left hemisphere is dominant in this module on language and the brain. Relationships between specific brain areas and verbal processing are shown through the historic example of Dr. Paul Broca’s brain-injury patient. The patient’s preserved brain is subjected to CAT scan analysis, which shows correspondence between the damaged area and the patient’s documented difficulties with language comprehension.
- Brain Anomaly and Plasticity: Hydrocephalus
  
  Hydrocephalus, a childhood disorder of excess fluid in the brain, illustrates brain plasticity — the brain’s amazing ability to rebound after injury. While patients with this disorder experience compression and destruction of brain tissue early in life, many are able to function normally later in life, after their brains have compensated for the loss.
- Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts
  
  This module depicts the original pioneering research on how the brain’s visual systems transmit and encode information. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, present their work on the visual cortex of the monkey using x-ray images. Two Nobel laureates also recount their serendipitous discovery of “feature detector” cells in the striate cortex that respond only to stimuli of certain sizes or direction of movement.
- Visual Information Processing: Perception
  
  This module concentrates on higher visual areas beyond the striate cortex, addressing the questions of when seeing becomes perception and where it all takes place. Face recognition provides an illustrative example — patients suffering damage to their temporal lobes may see familiar faces, yet be unable to recognize them.
- Perception: Inverted Vision
  
  The peculiar image inversion process that takes place in the normal visual system is examined in this module. The program traces the experiences of an art student who volunteers to wear lenses that invert her visual world, connecting the adaptation process she undergoes with how the visual system functions. Graphic animations reinforce understanding of the mechanism involved.
- Sensory-Motor Integration
  
  Three spectacular dives of Olympic gold-medalist Greg Louganis provide vivid illustration of the human body in motion. The complex visual and motor coordination involved in sophisticated sensory-motor integration calls upon the faculties of the motor cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia. The roles of kinesthesis, vestibular functions, and cutaneous sensitivity are also covered.
- Huntington's Disease
  
  Dr. Nancy Wexler of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and Columbia University recounts her research on the demographics, symptoms, and genetic cause of this debilitating illness. The module also explores ethical and moral dimensions of DNA testing, which can determine who will develop the disease.
- Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
  
  This module covers our natural rhythms and the stages that occur during sleep. It shows the brain’s electrical activity over the course of a normal night’s sleep, with its REM and non-REM cycles. The remainder of the module is devoted to an experiment conducted by Michel Siffre, a French cave explorer, in which Siffre spends seven months in a Texas cave. Without external cues, the body is shown to have its own built-in clock.
- Sleep: Brain Functions
  
  What is the purpose of sleep? This module sets out to answer this question by exploring the patterns of a woman’s sleep and dream cycles in the setting of a sleep laboratory. Characteristics of the five stages of sleep and the typical 90-minute cycle are explained. The module also covers sleep disorders and the current techniques used to treat them.
- REM Sleep and Dreaming
  
  This module probes deeper issues relating to sleep and dreaming. The uniquely individual experience of dreaming requires researchers to look beyond conventional methods of study. Dream specialist Dr. J. Allan Hobson discusses the function of dreams, explaining his theory of the biological mechanism behind the phenomenon and reflecting on the contribution of dreaming to human creativity.
The Brain Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 16 - 25
- The Locus of Learning and Memory
  
  In the history of psychology, the question of where learning and memory take place has occupied investigators for years. Recent work at the National Institute of Mental Health has brought scientists closer to resolving the issue. This module shows magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology being used to identify specific changes in the motor cortex of human subjects — changes that correspond to training in particular tasks.
- Learning As Synaptic Change
  
  This module presents researchers investigating the structural changes involved in learning. Research conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris shows that the learning process involves the formation of new brain connections and the elimination of others. Other researchers dispel the myth of brain loss in aging, present evidence of changes at the cellular level, and review research on associative learning.
- Living With Amnesia: The Hippocampus and Memory
  
  Amnesia appears in many different forms. This module shows how the extent and location of damage can result in varying levels of memory impairment. Footage of Mike, an amnesic individual, demonstrates the result of an injury to the hippocampus. Mike’s reaction to his memory deficit and drastic coping measures underscore the importance of memory to everyday functioning.
- Alzheimer's Disease
  
  When this program was first filmed, Eleanor, age 51, was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. This module follows Eleanor’s physical and mental decline after the initial filming. Pathology in the brainstem and other regions in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients are shown to interfere with acetylcholine release, resulting in neuronal atrophy. The module discusses our current knowledge of the disease and the direction of future research.
- A Super-Memorist Advises on Study Strategies
  
  This module explores the brain’s potential for storage-as-memory. Rajan Mahadevan, a “super-memorist,” demonstrates his phenomenal memory by scanning a 7 by 7 matrix of digits and recalling all forty-nine digits forward, backward, and by columns. He also claims to have memorized 100,000 digits of pi. Mahadevan offers suggestions to help college students improve their study habits when learning new material.
- Emotions, Stress, and Health
  
  Commentary from scientists, dramatic reenactments, and graphic illustrations show the consequences of prolonged stress on health. Animated diagrams show the brain releasing hormones, followed by a role-playing situation illustrating on-the-job stress that may set this process in motion. Researchers explain how low-level stress leads to the breakdown of frontal lobe functioning.
- Stress: Locus of Control and Predictability
  
  The classic rat experiment described by Dr. Jay Weiss of Rockefeller University, New York, is presented in this module. Two rats are connected to a stressor — an electric shock to the tail. One rat is able to turn off the stimulus by turning a wheel, while the other receives the stress stimulus regardless of what it does. The rat with more control is shown to suffer fewer deleterious health consequences.
- Multiple Personality
  
  Tony, walking down a country road, is shown talking to himself about his multiple personalities. Dr. Frances Howland of the Yale University School of Medicine describes Tony’s case, and viewers are shown Tony’s therapy sessions as different personalities emerge. The narrator explains the phenomenon as triggered in childhood by the need to flee psychologically from physical or sexual abuse.
- Aggression, Violence, and the Brain
  
  This module links human aggressive behavior with specific regions of the brain. Scenes from classic experiments show stimulation of a bull’s brain to stop it from charging and excitation of a cat’s hypothalamus to trigger aggression. A striking case of violent human behavior is then linked to a brain lesion — the surgical removal of which restored normal emotional control.
- Frontal Lobes and Behavior: The Story of Phineas Gage
  
  This module relates the story of Phineas Gage, whose name appears in virtually every general psychology textbook. After a heavy metal rod was blown through his temporal lobe, Phineas experienced dramatic mental change. The study of the trauma and its physiological effects provided the first documented evidence of how brain injury can affect human behavior.
The Brain Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 26 - 32
- Schizophrenia: Symptoms
  
  In this module, mental health professionals observe a patient named Jerry, a classic schizophrenic. Jerry’s case and medication schedule are described, and his disordered speech and behavior are shown. Prominent psychiatrists describe schizophrenia and the prognosis for those diagnosed with this disease; a locked psychiatric ward provides a graphic illustration.
- Schizophrenia: Etiology
  
  This module covers the history of attitudes, beliefs, and theories about the etiology of schizophrenia. While the illness was long thought to be environmentally caused, this module emphasizes the scientific evidence in support of its organic origins. Dr. Arnold Scheibel of UCLA Medical Center describes cellular pathology in the hippocampus and speculates on the possible role of viruses. A genetic component is also demonstrated.
- Schizophrenia: Pharmacological Treatment
  
  Dr. Arnold Scheibel reviews the various ways in which schizophrenia has been treated since the 1950s, ranging from the use of physical restraints and cool baths to the administration of antipsychotic drugs. He and other psychiatrists elaborate on the ways in which drugs alter the chemistry of the brain. Drugs that are effective seem to reduce the levels of dopamine in the brain — to provide amelioration and stabilization, not a cure.
- Autism
  
  This module opens with statistics and a description of autism and how the disorder has been viewed historically. Studies now support the theory that autism results from a lack of normal neural growth during prenatal development. Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University, severely autistic as a child, is presented as someone who overcame her autism and managed to use her way of perceiving the world to her advantage.
- Understanding the Brain Through Epilepsy
  
  In the midst of a young boy’s epileptic seizure, Dr. Fritz Dreifuss describes what is happening to him on a medical level. He explains that a lack of adequate inhibitory neurotransmitter function leads to an “electrical storm” in the brain. Different types of treatment are covered, including valproic acid and radical surgeries, along with how and why they are effective.
- Brain Transplants in Parkinson's Patients
  
  This module covers the symptoms and mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s disease. It explains the effectiveness and limitations of traditional treatment using L-dopa. The module then describes one of the most promising new approaches to treating Parkinson’s disease — brain transplant — involving the implantation of fetal tissue into patients’ basal ganglia.
- Neurorehabilitation
  
  The promising results of rehabilitation after brain trauma have encouraged a growing number of centers dedicated to working with brain-injury victims. Specialists at such centers discuss the range of treatments now available, and the cases of actual patients are reviewed. The module shows that people can recover significantly from brain damage.
The Brain: Teaching Modules 1-16

Module 1: Overview of Brain Organization (4:42)

This module begins with a race car driver exercising his skill in negotiating a series of turns in a highly competitive race. The scene shifts to action diagrams of the various brain areas associated with some of the behaviors involved in the execution of the race. The module illustrates several ways in which we study brain activity such as the CAT scan, PETT scan, EEG and Sensory-Event-Related Potential, demonstrated by its inventor, Jesse Salb.
Module 2: The Story of Phineas Gage (11:20)

This module relates the story of Phineas Gage, whose name appears in virtually every general psychology textbook. After a heavy metal rod was blown through his temporal lobe, Phineas experienced dramatic mental change. The study of the trauma and its physiological effects provided the first documented evidence of how brain injury can affect human behavior.
Module 3: Language and Speech: Broca and Wernicke's Areas (7:50)

The left hemisphere is dominant in this module on language and the brain. Relationships between specific brain areas and verbal processing are shown through the historic example of Dr. Paul Broca’s brain-injury patient. The patient’s preserved brain is subjected to CAT scan analysis, which shows correspondence between the damaged area and the patient’s documented difficulties with language comprehension.
Module 4: Split Brain (7:44)

This module begins with graphic representations of the cerebral hemispheres’ specialized functions. It continues with a description of the brain’s asymmetry, showing diagrams of how the two halves communicate. The extreme case of a patient who has undergone split-brain surgery for treatment of epilepsy illustrates the role of hemispheric organization in sensory perception and verbal skills.
Module 5: Brain Anomaly and Plasticity: Hydrocephalus (4:54)

Hydrocephalus, a childhood disorder of excess fluid in the brain, illustrates brain plasticity — the brain’s amazing ability to rebound after injury. While patients with this disorder experience compression and destruction of brain tissue early in life, many are able to function normally later in life, after their brains have compensated for the loss.
Module 6: Brain Transplants in Parkinson's Patients (11:15)

This module covers the symptoms and mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s disease. It explains the effectiveness and limitations of traditional treatment using L-dopa. The module then describes one of the most promising new approaches to treating Parkinson’s disease — brain transplant — involving the implantation of fetal tissue into patients’ basal ganglia.
Module 7: Alzheimer's Disease (7:44)

Eleanor, age 51, is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Pathology in the brainstem and other regions in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients are shown to interfere with acetylcholine release, resulting in neuronal atrophy. The module discusses our current knowledge of the disease and the direction of future research.
Module 8: Hormones and Sexual Development (6:35)

This module presents some startling and significant findings relating to the effects of sex hormones on brain development. Beginning with in utero photography and then visiting an animal laboratory, this module shows how Dr. Marian Diamond’s ground-breaking research has revealed structural differences in the brains of men and women, as well as factors influencing these differences.
Module 9: Gender Development: Social Influences (4:24)

Shifting from the biological focus of the previous module, this segment shows how social factors affect gender-specific behaviors. Mother-child interactions are shown, illustrating typical differences in how male and female children are treated, and how this treatment affects gender identity, roles, and expectations, and perceived differences in ability.
Module 10: Sensory-Motor Integration (3:27)

Three spectacular dives of Olympic gold-medalist Greg Louganis provide vivid illustration of the human body in motion. The complex visual and motor coordination involved in sophisticated sensory-motor integration calls upon the faculties of the motor cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia. The roles of kinesthesis, vestibular functions, and cutaneous sensitivity are also covered.
Module 11: Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts (8:45)

This module depicts the original pioneering research on how the brain’s visual systems transmit and encode information. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, present their work on the visual cortex of the monkey using x-ray images. Two Nobel laureates also recount their serendipitous discovery of “feature detector” cells in the striate cortex that respond only to stimuli of certain sizes or direction of movement.
Module 12: Visual Information Processing: Perception (7:12)

This module concentrates on higher visual areas beyond the striate cortex, addressing the questions of when seeing becomes perception and where it all takes place. Face recognition provides an illustrative example — patients suffering damage to their temporal lobes may see familiar faces, yet be unable to recognize them.
Module 13: Tactile Visual Substitution (3:26)

Employing specially designed apparatus at the Smith Kettlewell Institute of Visual Science, Dr. Gerard Guarniero, blind from birth, is able to acquire a "visual experience" through the skin on his back. Through a special feature television camera connected to a series of blunt pins, the outlines of objects can be transmitted to the back of a chair containing vibrating pins. Dr. Guarniero says that all his life he has learned much about his environment through touch, but with the tactile visual substitution system, he is able to perceive objects from a distancve and most significantly, that after some practice, "objects no longer appear to be on his skin anymore."
Module 14: Perception: Inverted Vision (4:38)

The peculiar image inversion process that takes place in the normal visual system is examined in this module. The program traces the experiences of an art student who volunteers to wear lenses that invert her visual world, connecting the adaptation process she undergoes with how the visual system functions. Graphic animations reinforce understanding of the mechanism involved.
Module 15: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms (6:21)

This module covers our natural rhythms and the stages that occur during sleep. It shows the brain’s electrical activity over the course of a normal night’s sleep, with its REM and non-REM cycles. The remainder of the module is devoted to an experiment conducted by Michel Siffre, a French cave explorer, in which Siffre spends seven months in a Texas cave. Without external cues, the body is shown to have its own built-in clock.
Module 16: Circadian Rhythms: Variable Work Schedules (7:10)

A review of recent trends in the work force indicates that almost 20% of the population in industrialized nations employ variable work schedules. Because our internal rhythms function more on a 25-hour period, care must be taken to rearranging shift workers to take into account what we now know about circadian rhythms. Shows experiment at Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals in which 130 workers who routinely rotate work schedules were studies. Instead of rotating from day shift to night shift, to evening shift at the end of each week, schedules were changed so that workers maintained a particular shift for three weeks at a time.

The Brain: Teaching Modules 17-30

Module 17: REM Sleep and Dreaming (9:59)

This module probes deeper issues relating to sleep and dreaming. The uniquely individual experience of dreaming requires researchers to look beyond conventional methods of study. Dream specialist Dr. J. Allan Hobson discusses the function of dreams, explaining his theory of the biological mechanism behind the phenomenon and reflecting on the contribution of dreaming to human creativity.
Module 18: Short-Term Memory: Mnemonic Strategies (2:59)

Trevor Emmott demonstrates that in 2 minutes, he can recall 36 digits; six rows of six numbers grouped in threes. He uses an association with the fourth row, a different one with the first grouping of three numbers, and another for the second grouping of three. Through this "chunking" he had reduced the task to three mental pictures, one for each chunk.
Module 19: The Locus of Learning and Memory (6:49)

In the history of psychology, the question of where learning and memory take place has occupied investigators for years. Recent work at the National Institute of Mental Health has brought scientists closer to resolving the issue. This module shows magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology being used to identify specific changes in the motor cortex of human subjects — changes that correspond to training in particular tasks.
Module 20: The Hippocampus and Memory (8:00)

Damage to the hippocampal area usually involves the potential for memory loss as is the case with Peter, a victim of a brain injury in this region. The recall of events prior to the accident are clear, but events subsequent to the event are fuzzy. Dr. Neal Cohen discusses memory breakdown as a varying phenomenon, contingent upon the specific area and extent of brain damage. Different areas of the brain contribute to different memories in unique ways.
Module 21: Learning As Synaptic Change (7:07)

This module presents researchers investigating the structural changes involved in learning. Research conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris shows that the learning process involves the formation of new brain connections and the elimination of others. Other researchers dispel the myth of brain loss in aging, present evidence of changes at the cellular level, and review research on associative learning.
Module 22: Intelligence and Culture (4:18)

The issue of cultural bias in testing is explored in this module, presenting Judy Kearins’s work with Australian children. White and aboriginal children are shown to perform differently on visual/spatial tasks, and use different methods to arrive at solutions to the problems presented. Theories of cultural influence on cognitive processing and the shaping of the brain are suggested as explanations for tested differences in ability.
Module 23: Sexual Preference: A Hormonal Possibility (7:36)

Dr. Gunther Dorner discusses the role of early hormonal influence on sex differentiation. He describes a series of experiments on pregnant rats exposed to stress and the hormonal consequences for the action of testosterone which is reduced by stress. Stress produces adrenalin, which reduces testosterone and affects hormonal development. Dr. Dorner suggests that this may, at least in part, be related to male homosexuality. Max is a homosexual born during WWII. He undergoes a test designed to measure his brain reaction to the male hormone testosterone. His brain reacts as a female brain. Mrs. Brown, who is genotypically a male and phenotypically a female, undergoes the same test with estrogen, and reacts as if her brain were a male brain.
Module 24: Multiple Personality (9:34)

Tony, walking down a country road, is shown talking to himself about his multiple personalities. Dr. Frances Howland of the Yale University School of Medicine describes Tony’s case, and viewers are shown Tony’s therapy sessions as different personalities emerge. The narrator explains the phenomenon as triggered in childhood by the need to flee psychologically from physical or sexual abuse.
Module 25: Schizophrenia (6:27)

In this module, mental health professionals observe a patient named Jerry, a classic schizophrenic. Jerry’s case and medication schedule are described, and his disordered speech and behavior are shown. Prominent psychiatrists describe schizophrenia and the prognosis for those diagnosed with this disease; a locked psychiatric ward provides a graphic illustration.
Module 26: Schizophrenia: Etiology (6:36)

This module covers the history of attitudes, beliefs, and theories about the etiology of schizophrenia. While the illness was long thought to be environmentally caused, this module emphasizes the scientific evidence in support of its organic origins. Dr. Arnold Scheibel of UCLA Medical Center describes cellular pathology in the hippocampus and speculates on the possible role of viruses. A genetic component is also demonstrated.
Module 27: Schizophrenia: Treatment and Research (6:06)

Dr. Arnold Scheibel reviews the various ways in which schizophrenia has been treated since the 1950s, ranging from the use of physical restraints and cool baths to the administration of antipsychotic drugs. He and other psychiatrists elaborate on the ways in which drugs alter the chemistry of the brain. Drugs that are effective seem to reduce the levels of dopamine in the brain — to provide amelioration and stabilization, not a cure.
Module 28: Stress: Locus of Control and Predictability (3:05)

The classic rat experiment described by Dr. Jay Weiss of Rockefeller University, New York, is presented in this module. Two rats are connected to a stressor — an electric shock to the tail. One rat is able to turn off the stimulus by turning a wheel, while the other receives the stress stimulus regardless of what it does. The rat with more control is shown to suffer fewer deleterious health consequences.
Module 29: Emotions, Stress and Health (11:31)

Commentary from scientists, dramatic reenactments, and graphic illustrations show the consequences of prolonged stress on health. Animated diagrams show the brain releasing hormones, followed by a role-playing situation illustrating on-the-job stress that may set this process in motion. Researchers explain how low-level stress leads to the breakdown of frontal lobe functioning.
Module 30: Aggression, Violence and The Brain (6:28)

This module links human aggressive behavior with specific regions of the brain. Scenes from classic experiments show stimulation of a bull’s brain to stop it from charging and excitation of a cat’s hypothalamus to trigger aggression. A striking case of violent human behavior is then linked to a brain lesion — the surgical removal of which restored normal emotional control.

The Brain Teaching Module Program 1: Overview of Brain Organization

This module begins with a race car driver exercising his skill in negotiating a series of turns in a highly competitive race. The scene shifts to action diagrams of the various brain areas associated with some of the behaviors involved in the execution of the race. The module illustrates several ways in which we study brain activity such as the CAT scan, PETT scan, EEG and Sensory-Event-Related Potential, demonstrated by its inventor, Jesse Salb.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 2: The Story of Phineus Gage

This module relates the story of Phineas Gage, whose name appears in virtually every general psychology textbook. After a heavy metal rod was blown through his temporal lobe, Phineas experienced dramatic mental change. The study of the trauma and its physiological effects provided the first documented evidence of how brain injury can affect human behavior.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 4: Split Brain

This module begins with graphic representations of the cerebral hemispheres’ specialized functions. It continues with a description of the brain’s asymmetry, showing diagrams of how the two halves communicate. The extreme case of a patient who has undergone split-brain surgery for treatment of epilepsy illustrates the role of hemispheric organization in sensory perception and verbal skills.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 9: Gender Development: Social Influences

Shifting from the biological focus of the previous module, this segment shows how social factors affect gender-specific behaviors. Mother-child interactions are shown, illustrating typical differences in how male and female children are treated, and how this treatment affects gender identity, roles, and expectations, and perceived differences in ability.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 11: Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts

This module depicts the original pioneering research on how the brain’s visual systems transmit and encode information. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, present their work on the visual cortex of the monkey using x-ray images. Two Nobel laureates also recount their serendipitous discovery of “feature detector” cells in the striate cortex that respond only to stimuli of certain sizes or direction of movement.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 14: Perception: Inverted Vision

The peculiar image inversion process that takes place in the normal visual system is examined in this module. The program traces the experiences of an art student who volunteers to wear lenses that invert her visual world, connecting the adaptation process she undergoes with how the visual system functions. Graphic animations reinforce understanding of the mechanism involved.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 17: REM Sleep and Dreaming

This module probes deeper issues relating to sleep and dreaming. The uniquely individual experience of dreaming requires researchers to look beyond conventional methods of study. Dream specialist Dr. J. Allan Hobson discusses the function of dreams, explaining his theory of the biological mechanism behind the phenomenon and reflecting on the contribution of dreaming to human creativity.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 20: The Hippocampus and Memory

Damage to the hippocampal area usually involves the potential for memory loss as is the case with Peter, a victim of a brain injury in this region. The recall of events prior to the accident are clear, but events subsequent to the event are fuzzy. Dr. Neal Cohen discusses memory breakdown as a varying phenomenon, contingent upon the specific area and extent of brain damage. Different areas of the brain contribute to different memories in unique ways.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 21: Learning as Synaptic Change

This module presents researchers investigating the structural changes involved in learning. Research conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris shows that the learning process involves the formation of new brain connections and the elimination of others. Other researchers dispel the myth of brain loss in aging, present evidence of changes at the cellular level, and review research on associative learning.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 24: Multiple Personality

Tony, walking down a country road, is shown talking to himself about his multiple personalities. Dr. Frances Howland of the Yale University School of Medicine describes Tony’s case, and viewers are shown Tony’s therapy sessions as different personalities emerge. The narrator explains the phenomenon as triggered in childhood by the need to flee psychologically from physical or sexual abuse.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 25: Schizophrenia

In this module, mental health professionals observe a patient named Jerry, a classic schizophrenic. Jerry’s case and medication schedule are described, and his disordered speech and behavior are shown. Prominent psychiatrists describe schizophrenia and the prognosis for those diagnosed with this disease; a locked psychiatric ward provides a graphic illustration.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 26: Schizophrenia: Etiology

This module covers the history of attitudes, beliefs, and theories about the etiology of schizophrenia. While the illness was long thought to be environmentally caused, this module emphasizes the scientific evidence in support of its organic origins. Dr. Arnold Scheibel of UCLA Medical Center describes cellular pathology in the hippocampus and speculates on the possible role of viruses. A genetic component is also demonstrated.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 27: Schizophrenia: Treatment and Research

Dr. Arnold Scheibel reviews the various ways in which schizophrenia has been treated since the 1950s, ranging from the use of physical restraints and cool baths to the administration of antipsychotic drugs. He and other psychiatrists elaborate on the ways in which drugs alter the chemistry of the brain. Drugs that are effective seem to reduce the levels of dopamine in the brain — to provide amelioration and stabilization, not a cure.
The Brain Teaching Module Program 30: Aggression, Violence and the Brain

This module links human aggressive behavior with specific regions of the brain. Scenes from classic experiments show stimulation of a bull’s brain to stop it from charging and excitation of a cat’s hypothalamus to trigger aggression. A striking case of violent human behavior is then linked to a brain lesion — the surgical removal of which restored normal emotional control.
Brandon and Rachel-Patterns of Infant Development

Brandon and Rachel are appealing seven-month-olds who visit a college developmental psychology class. The professor uses the two to demonstrate the principles of motor, language, and personality development and to illustrate how infants develop in individualized ways reflecting their genetic makeup and environmental influences. Then the students in the class are asked to develop personality profiles for the infants. Not surprisingly, the profiles conform largely to traditional masculine and feminine stereotypes. But wait! What happens if we change the clothes the two are wearing...?
Candid Camera Classics for Introductory Psychology

This film shows peoples social interactions when given circumstances that are unreal and quite hilarious. The point of the film was to show how people change moods or thoughts, convert to the social norm (or at least the one presented) or deal with situations that seem to be quite strange or even impossible.
Changing Minds (Scientific American Frontiers)

Understanding Braille:
Most of us are aware that different regions of the brain process different types of information. However, when problems interfere with acquiring information, the brain assumes a more flexible organization. Regions of the brain traditionally responsible for certain functions can process messages that would have ordinarily been sent elsewhere. This remapping of function results in more effective utilization of the network and structure of this incredible organ. In “The Sight of Touch,” you observed a unique experiment in which a subject was blindfolded for several days. As she learned the basics of Braille language, her brain shifted the natural processing center for this information. Instead of processing the touch sensation in the touch region of the brain, her brain began using the visual region. This demonstrated a remapping of brain function to best exploit underused regions of the brain.

Increasing Brain Power:
For years, scientists thought that brain cells did not divide to produce new cells. However, ideas (like brain cells) do change. Today, research has shown that not only does the brain continually rewire, but regions of the brain can create brand new cells! In “Grow Your Own Brain,” you learned how changes in surroundings and activities can boost brain growth. In the show, you saw how an enriched environment resulted in the creation of new neurons. You also observed how plain old exercise increases the brain growth of running mice. But can extra neurons really give us an edge in thinking? That's what scientists believe based on evidence from new research. Thinking power seems to be directly related to the number of connections made by brain cells. It is these connections that build the paths through which thoughts travel. The more connections, the more possible routes. The more routes, the more powerful the brain.

"Nerve Cell Infomercials":
Alan Alda and Gerry Edelman study the behavior of Darwin, a robot who has learned that blocks with stripes taste good, and blocks with blobs taste bad. Darwin’s brain is modeled on a mammal’s brain, with a visual cortex to receive the camera image, and a second specialized area to interpret what it sees. In Darwin’s computer, simulated neurons form a network with a quarter of a million connections. In our own bodies, we have many millions of neurons, far more than Darwin, all with the potential to transmit signals through our nervous system so that we may sense, respond, and learn.
Children as Eyewitnesses - 20/20
Chimps - Nova

The film tries to find out which breed of monkeys closely relate to the average human beings. It tracks all the higher cognitive functions, such as concept of self, language and other cognitive functions believed to be exclusively used by humans. The film covers tactics and methods used by different monkeys to survive and they group and interact. The film goes to show the difference and similarity by doing test.
Clinical, Gounseling, Social Work and Allied Fields
Clive Wearing - Life Without Memory, Parts 1 and 2

Part 1
Raises many questions about the nature of memory and its importance to human existence. Introduces the viewer to Clive Wearing, who is incapable of making new memories due to viral encephalitis.

Part 2
Presents an extraordinary example of the relationship between brain damage and memory function by reintroducing the viewer to Clive Wearing 13 years after his appearance in part one.
Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Developmental
Constitutional & Environmental Interaction in Rearing 4 Breeds of Dogs

In this film a dog study was done testing the obedience of four different types of dogs. They tested to see if the dogs based on if they were praised or disciplined for doing things caused a change in obedience. They concluded that breed matters but also the fact that indulgent dogs responded better than disciplined dogs, even after they switched roles.
CYBERSPACE (Segment on Visable Man)
The Dating Bill of Rights
Daylight Robbery 2

This film talks about squirrels and how they eat food out of bird feeders. The interesting part is that squirrels display a natural ability to adapt to whatever the situation is in order to get to the bird feeder. Even through trial and error it is easy to see that squirrels use both instinctual and higher cognitive functions (memory) to achieve their goal.
Deficits of Mind and Brain

This video starts out showing a woman who has had a stroke whose left hand feels that it is not hers and that she has no control over it. This is an example of how brain damage can effect human functioning, which is the main focus of this video. Neuroimaging is explained and how it can benefit neuroscience. Examples of patients whose brain has been analyzed using neuroimaging are then shown to explain how this process is used in real life with real people. How patients who have suffered from a stroke perform simple visual tasks given to them by doctors is then discussed, explaining how if certain parts of the brain are damaged, different effects are found. Pattern recognition is then discussed, discussing how different lesion locations matching strings of letters.

Discovering Psychology Special Teaching Modules Program 1 (77:45)

Each tape has brief segments from the half-hour shows. The segments range from 1 to 4 or 5 minutes. Each segment begins with a black background and a number such as 2.3, which indicates that what follows is the third segment from the second show. What follows is a listing of segment numbers, approximate tape counter readings for the beginning of that segment, some indication of what is in that segment and rating (prepared by Jim Craig) of how useful the segment is.

Program (tape) 1

Segment Number	Counter Reading	Summary of Segment
1.1	157	Hypothesis testing; need for procedural controls. Shows Daryl Bem doing "psychic" experiment. Okay.
1.2	464	Leonard Sape; Boston University, showing why polygraph doesn't work. Okay.
2.1	960	Manny Donchin; EEG and Program 2 - Physiological Measures P300 measures of violations of expectancies. Pretty good for the relationship of physiological and behavioral measures.
2.2	1225	E. Roy John; Neurometric, brainwaves across lifespan, mostly talking heads. Not very good.
2.3	1614	Fred Gage; neuroscientist, brain damage, neuronal transplants, good behavioral measures. Shows need for animal work.
2.4	1830	Tiffany Field; human touch in premature infants. Okay.
2.5	1950	Saul Schanburg; mother touch in rat pups. Better than 2.4, run this one first.
2.6	2150	Michael Gazzaniga; split brain, talking heads - boring, no data.
3.1	2400	David Hubel; mostly talk but some lab film - okay if you give students some explanation.
3.2	2558	Demonstration of the effect of displacing prisms - good. Perception.
3.3	2640	Demonstration of prior experience affecting perception. Might work as class demo.
3.4	2730	Misha Pavel; visual systems. Good visual demonstration but conclusions are obscure.
3.5	2730	Ellen Langer; vision and the effect of expectation. Not well done.
4.1	3222	Pavlov; mostly lab footage of original experiments. Pretty good.
4.2	3351	Robert Ader; conditioning immunosuppression; poor, confusing.
4.3	3445	John B. Watson; old footage with "Little Albert," too bad its not better.
4.4	3537	Skinner; old footage with pigeon turning in a circle, new footage with Skinner - okay.
5.1	3794	Joseph Martinez; animal model for memory, rats in a "Y" maze, good graphics, good.
5.2	3927	Richard Thompson; eyelid conditioning and memory, good demonstration of conditioning procedure. Animals (rabbits) look very uncomfortable in this experiment. [Check with Joe Steinmetz. He has some information about animal discomfort in this experiment.]
5.3	4083	Gordon Bower; enhance memory with peg word technique; boring.
5.4	4197	Howard Gardner; cognitive psychology, talking head, poor.

Discovering Psychology Special Teaching Modules Program 2 (84:27)

Program (tape) 2

Segment Number	Counter Reading	Summary of Segment
6.1	72	Robert Rosenthal; body language, mice, and lying. Okay.
6.2	199	Social interaction; infants and language acquisition; okay for some footage of mother-infant language interaction.
6.3	335	Ann Fernald; cross-cultural language acquisition, pitch contours; not convincing, poor.
6.4	503	Herb Simon; thinking machines, talking heads, poor.
6.5	590	Michael Posner; PET scan and word identification; not enough data, mostly talking.
6.6	700	Tversky and Kahneman; decision making; a long segment with a number of examples, okay.
6.7	1030	Max Bozerman; negotiating mistakes; poor.
7.1	1180	Teresa Amabile; creativity, competition reduces creativity, not too good.
7.2	1260	Howard Gardner; his list of 7 intelligences, poor.
7.3	1346	Robert Sternberg; criticizes traditional view of intelligence, talking head but not too bad.
7.4	1425	EEG and intelligence, poor.
8.1	1615	Ernest Hartmann, shows sleep lab, factual, informative, reinforces text, good.
8.2	1755	Robert McCarley; dreams, Activation Synthesis Theory, talking head, but okay.
8.3	1922	Steven LaBerge; some demonstration of control dreams, lots of talk, okay.
8.4	2095	F.W. Putsan; multiple personality, brief, okay.
8.5	2198	Hypnosis, Zimbardo, pain control, pretty good.
9.1	2598	Norman Adler; sexual behaviorism rats, instructor may want to preview this one.
9.2	2732	Michael Measey, effects of handling and memory in rats, good.
9.3	2886	Neal Miller; biofeedback, poor.
9.4	2959	Hans Selye, stress, poor.
9.5	3020	Space flight, space sickness, poor.

Discovering Psychology Special Teaching Modules Program 3 (21:00)

Program (tape) 3

Segment Number	Counter Reading	Summary of Segment
10.1	61	Piaget, conservation, okay.
10.2	130	Renee Baillargeone; object permanence in infants, good lab demo and explanation.
10.3	238	Judy DeLoache; symbols and scale models, good demonstration (one of the longer segments.)
10.4	419	Visual cliff, shows it but not much else.
10.5	472	Steve Suomi; shapes in monkeys, parallels with humans. Okay.
10.6	547	Sherry Willis; cognitive training in elderly, brief, but okay.
10.7	602	Werner Schaie; aging and thinking; talking head, poor.
10.8	668	Aging and Skinner, just talk, poor.
10.9	720	Diana Woodruf-Pak; aging, rabbits and conditioning, some problem with interpretation of conditioning, otherwise okay (instructor should preview this).

Discovering Psychology Special Teaching Modules Program 4 (105:00)

Program 4

Segment Number	Counter Reading	Summary of Segment
11.1	150	Michael Meany, play, sex differences in animals and humans, fair bit of talking, okay. (instructor should preview)
11.2	374	Jean Block; sex differences, socialization, disagrees with previous segment, poor.
11.3	630	Elenor Maccoby; gender and playing. Also, language differences. Okay, mostly talking, confusing at end (could use 11.1 - 11.3 together)
11.4	1008	Daniel Levinson; life cycle and eras, poor.
11.5	1204	Pat Moore; reporter who simulated old age, poor.
12.1	1378	Jerome Kagan; timid and bold children, poor.
12.2	1550	Martin Selignan; explanatory style optimists and pessimists, talking head, long, poor to okay depending upon whether or not you cover topic.
12.3	1992	Albert Bandura; theory of self-efficacy; shows experiment in which "self efficacy" is manipulated, poor to okay.
13.1	2247	Affective disorders, depression, poor.
13.2	2352	Irving Gottesman; genetic schizophrenia, twins, how do you do research on this topic, fairly long, good.
13.3	2615	Schizophrenia, some examples, Fuller Torroy; brief, inconclusive.
13.4	2700	Teresa LaFramboise; Native American psychopathology, poor.
13.5	2785	Psychosurgery, pre-frontal labotomy shows patients (instructor should preview) okay.
13.6	2906	Antipsychotic drugs, poor.
13.7	2968	Genetics, Amish community "biological biasing," poor.
13.8	3005	Behavior therapist, behavior modification, okay.
13.9	3106	Cognitive therapy, Albert Ellis, talking heads, poor.
13.10	3177	Humanistic therapy, Rollo May, talking head, poor.
14.1	3368	Leon Festinger; cognitive disonance, $20 vs $1 incentive to lie; (notice the "he" for female subjects), okay.
14.2	3542	Jonestown suicides, behavior is situationally determined; poor to okay.
14.3	3633	Prejudice, blue eyed vs brown eyed people; odd experiment that could never be done today. One day experiment plus students 15 years later. Interesting.
14.4	3867	Max Bazerman; negotiation, failure to see other side's point of view, poor to okay.
14.5	3947	John Mack, Center for Psychological Studies in Nuclear Age, mostly talking head, poor.
15.1	4180	Irving Janis; "Group Think," studied Bay of Pigs transcripts; need to promote rational thinking, poor to okay.
15.2	4290	Kurt Lewin; 1939 experiment on leadership style, old film footage, poor to okay.
15.3	4373	Tom Morriarity; brief lab film of beach scene and stealing, okay.
15.4	4405	Stanley Milgram; obedience, lab footage, okay.
15.5	4567	Prison study, Zimbardon, lab footage, raises ethical issue, good for discussion.
15.6	4766	Learning team, cooperation, Eliot Areson desegregation, educational psychology, poor.
15.7	4904	Robert Cialdini; salespeople, how to sell, mostly talking head, but not too bad.
15.8	5029	Yvonne Clearwater; stress and isolation in space; productivity is reduced in isolation with design of crew quarters, okay, some human factors.

Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 1: Past, Present, and Promise & 2: Understanding Research

1: Past, Present, and Promise
This introduction presents psychology as a science at the crossroads of many fields of knowledge, from philosophy and anthropology to biochemistry and artificial intelligence. With Dr. Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University and Dr. Emanuel Donchin of the University of Illinois.

2: Understanding Research
This program examines the scientific method and the ways in which data are collected and analyzed — in the lab and in the field — with an emphasis on sharpening critical thinking in the interpretation of research findings. With Dr. Christina Maslach of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Daryl Bem of Cornell University.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 3: The Behaving Brain & 4: The Responsive Brain

3: The Behaving Brain
This program discusses the structure and composition of the brain: how neurons function, how information is collected and transmitted, and how chemical reactions determine every thought, feeling, and action. With Dr. John Gabrieli of Stanford University and Dr. Mieke Verfaellie of Veterans Medical Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

4: The Responsive Brain
How the brain controls behavior and, conversely, how behavior and environment influence the brain’s structure and functioning are the focus of this program. With Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University and Dr. Russell Fernald of Stanford University.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 5: The Developing Child & 6: Language Development

5: The Developing Child
This program traces the nature vs. nurture debate, revealing how developmental psychologists study the contributions of both heredity and environment to child development. With Dr. Renee Baillargeon of the University of Illinois and Dr. Judy De Loache of the University of Illinois.

6: Language Development
The development of language has many facets to explore. This program looks at how developmental psychologists investigate the human mind, society, and culture by studying children’s use of language in social communication. With Dr. Jean Berko-Gleason of Boston University and Dr. Ann Fernald of Stanford University.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 7: Sensation and Perception & 8: Learning

7: Sensation and Perception
This program demonstrates how visual information is gathered and processed, and how our culture, previous experiences, and interests influence our perceptions. With Dr. David Hubel of Harvard University and Dr. Misha Pavel of the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.

8: Learning
Prominent researchers — Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner — have greatly influenced today’s thinking about how learning takes place. This program examines the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning elaborated by these renowned figures. With Dr. Howard Rachlin of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Dr. Robert Ader of the University of Rochester.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 9: Remembering and Forgetting & 10: Cognitive Processes

9: Remembering and Forgetting
This program looks at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, and even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in the memory and retrieved when needed. With Dr. Richard Thompson of the University of Southern California and Dr. Diana Woodruff-Pak of Temple University.

10: Cognitive Processes
This program is an exploration into the higher mental processes — reasoning, planning, and problem solving — and why the “cognitive revolution” is attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to computer scientists. With Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University and Dr. Michael Posner of the University of Oregon.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 11: Judgment and Decision Making & 12: Motivation and Emotion

11: Judgment and Decision Making
Exceedingly complex processes are involved in the making of judgements and decisions. This program examines how and why people make good and bad judgements, and the psychology of taking risks. With Dr. Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University and the late Dr. Irving Janis of Yale University.

12: Motivation and Emotion
This program reviews what researchers are discovering about why we act and feel as we do, from the exhilaration of love to the agony of failure. With Dr. Norman Adler of Yeshiva University and Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania.
Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 13: The Mind Awake and Asleep & 14: The Mind Hidden and Divided

13: The Mind Awake and Asleep
Our varying levels of consciousness empower us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in flexible ways. The nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness are explored in this program. With Dr. Ernest Hartman, formerly of Tufts University, and Dr. Robert McCarley of Harvard Medical School.

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14: The Mind Hidden and Divided
This program shows how experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions, and affect our health — as demonstrated in repression, discovered and false memory syndromes, hypnosis, and split-brain cases. With Dr. Jonathan Schooler of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Michael Gazzaniga of Dartmouth College. Updated.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 15: The Self & 16: Testing and Intelligence

15: The Self
Psychologists systematically study the origins of self-identity and self-esteem, the social determinants of self-conceptions, and the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself. This program explores their methods of discovery. With Dr. Hazel Markus of Stanford University and Dr. Teresa Amabile of Harvard University. Updated.

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16: Testing and Intelligence
This program peers into the field of psychological assessment — the efforts of psychologists and other professionals to assign values to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities. With Dr. Claude Steele of Stanford University and Dr. Robert Sternberg of Yale University. Updated.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 17: Sex and Gender & 18: Maturing and Aging

17: Sex and Gender
This program explores the ways in which males and females are similar and different, and how gender roles reflect social values and psychological knowledge. With Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University and Dr. Eleanor Maccoby of Stanford University

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18: Maturing and Aging
What really happens, physically and psychologically, as we age? This program looks at how society reacts to the last stages of life. With Dr. Laura Carstensen of Stanford University and Dr. Sherry Willis of Penn State University. Updated.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 19: The Power of the Situation & 20: Constructing Social Reality

19: The Power of the Situation
This program examines how our beliefs and behavior can be influenced and manipulated by other people and subtle situational forces, and how social psychologists study human behavior within its broader social context. With Dr. Ellen Langer of Harvard University and Dr. Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.

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20: Constructing Social Reality
Many factors contribute to our interpretation of reality. This program demonstrates how understanding the psychological processes that govern our behavior may help us to become more empathetic and independent members of society. With Steven Hassan, M.Ed., of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center and Dr. Robert Cialdini of Arizona State University. Updated.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 21: Psychopathology & 22: Psychotherapy

21: Psychopathology
The major types of mental illness are presented. Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are described, along with the major factors that affect them — both biological and psychological. With Dr. Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia and Dr. E. Fuller Torrey of the National Institute of Mental Health. Updated.

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22: Psychotherapy
This program surveys the relationships among theory, research, and practice, and how treatment of psychological disorders has been influenced by historical, cultural, and social forces. With Dr. Hans Strupp of Vanderbilt University and the late Dr. Rollo May.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 23: Health, Mind, and Behavior & 24: Applying Psychology in Life

23: Health, Mind, and Behavior
This program presents a rethinking of the relationship between mind and body. A new bio-psychosocial model is replacing the traditional biomedical model. With Dr. Judith Rodin of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Neal Miller of Yale University. Updated.

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24: Applying Psychology in Life
Psychology is currently being applied in innovative ways to practical situations in the areas of human factors, law, and conflict negotiation. With Dr. Malcolm Cohen of NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. Stephen Ceci of Cornell University, and Dr. James Maas of Cornell University. New.

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Discovering Psychology (2nd Edition) 25: Cognitive Neuroscience & 26: Cultural Psychology

25: Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain’s functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems. Cognitive neuroscience allies psychologists, biologists, brain researchers, and others in what is perhaps the most dramatic advance in the last decade of psychological research. With Dr. John Gabrieli of Stanford University and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn of Harvard University. New.

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26: Cultural Psychology
This newly emerging field is integrating cross-cultural research with social and personality psychology, anthropology, and other social sciences. Its main new perspective is centered on how cultures construct selves and other central aspects of individual personality, beliefs, values, and emotions — much of what we are and do. This area has become more important in both psychology and American society with the globalization of our planet, increasing interaction of people from different cultural backgrounds, and emerging issues of diversity. With Dr. Hazel Markus of Stanford University, Dr. Kaipeng Peng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Ricardo Munoz of the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. New.

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Dr. Spock the Baby Doc
This film documents the life and history of Dr. Benjamin Spock. It follows him from when he was a baby to when he created his book, the feedback he received from his book, to the fight he went through to stop bombing and drafting to the war, to his run for presidency. It documents everything from how he got to school to his marriage life and depicts him as the man who raised a nation.

Eye of the Storm

Classic 1970 study on prejudice.

Teacher starts out saying blue eyed people were smarter, cleaner, more civilized than brown eyed people (blue-eyed child reports how much he liked that day).

Monday – regular school day.

Tuesday – talked about how people are judged by the color of their skin. Students say they know what it would feel like to be judged. Teacher disagrees and proposes that blue-eyed people are better.

Wednesday – tells class that the truth is that brown-eyed kids are really better than blue-eyed people.

Students actually begin to feel ‘on the bottom’ because of the prejudice the teacher introduces first against brown-eyed and then against blue-eyed kids. The teacher reports watching wonderful children turn into vicious, hateful, prejudice children within the space of 15 minutes.

Eye Witness Testimony: 1) Liquor Store Robbery (Geiselman); 2) News Report about robbery (Loftus)

The Fairer Sex

A primetime special that goes undercover to find out if there is a difference in the way that men and women are treated in American society. The film takes two people (one male and one female) and puts them in a new city to see if they do experience differences based on sex. In all the trails (from buying a car to going out for jobs) women were discriminated against on a continual basis, even when the women are more qualified. The film shows that women are treated unfairly when it comes to the job market (including pay and positions) all the way to having to pay more in everyday life. When the movie was reviewed by the staff, shockingly men said they saw no problem and even worse, there are no laws to protect women.

False Memory or Sex Abuse? M-L Report

This video is a new story about a woman who was wrongly accused of child abuse but was released from jail after it was found she was innocent. She worked at a day care in New Jersey. Parents of the children who accused her of sexually abusing them are interviewed, and some still claim that this woman did indeed commit this crime. In 1985 she was charged with over 200 counts of child abuse from over 30 children.

Some experts believe some of the testimony from children who had accused those of sexual abuse are inaccurate, and at times can cause a hysteria, which snowballs into multiple cases and families becoming involved in a case that only began with one child and/or family. A child advocate is interviewed about children’s testimony and admissions of being sexually abused. Also, some believe that the children’s testimonies were tainted as they had been “talked into” accusing the abuse by the investigator’s.

A research psychologist is interviewed, who believes that children, especially under the age of five, can easily be suggested to come up with whatever the interviewer leads them to believe happened to them. An example of this with a 4 year old child who shown, who is interviewed and explains an incident that she says occurred, but never did. The idea was “suggested” to her earlier in the experiment by experimenters. However, there is no sure scientific way to tell if children are telling the truth, which makes sex abuse cases extremely difficult.

Growing Up Different (Scientific American Frontiers)

- "Breaking the Shell" some forms of autism interfere with the ability to recognize and respond to familiar faces. Scientists don't know why this ability is affected, and they disagree about how a normal brain processes, distinguishes and identifies faces. Most, however, think that the ability to identify faces is a complex process that is based upon a holistic view that arises from the precise placement and shape of various key features such as eyes and mouths.

- "Each Sound is a Present," a cochlear implant is an electronic device that can bring sounds to people who are deaf. The implant consists of two parts: an external electronics package and an electrode that is implanted into the cochlea, a liquid-filled, coiled chamber within the inner ear. Sounds detected by an external microphone are converted into electrical signals. These signals are transmitted along the implanted electrode to the underlying nerve cells of the cochlea. The stimulated nerve cells transfer these electrical signals along the auditory nerve to the brain for processing.

- Williams Syndrome is a rare disorder (1 in 25,000 births) characterized by physical and developmental problems. Scientists have tracked this disorder to a mutation on chromosome 7. People with Williams Syndrome are missing a small segment of this chromosome.

Most people with Williams Syndrome also lack the gene responsible for the manufacture of elastin. This gene maps to the same missing area of chromosome 7.

Elastin is a protein that allows the tissues within our blood vessels, skin and heart to stretch. Without this elastic property, the function of the tissues is compromised.

In addition to having a compromised elastin level, most people with Williams Syndrome experience the narrowing of blood vessels. Both the lack of tissue resiliency and the narrow diameter of the vessels produce hypertension (high blood pressure). Narrowed vessels within the heart and lung further exacerbate the condition and may require surgical correction.

Health, Stress, and Coping/Motivation/Emotion

The Human Face Vol. I

This video is focused on how expressions of the face can change interactions and how face to face communication can be much more beneficial than other types of communication. They first discuss the variability of the human face, as the face can make 7000 different facial expressions, which is described biologically by looking at the muscles in the face. An example of a young girl who has a muscle disorder that doesn’t allow her to make facial expressions is then given who is going through an experimental surgery that could make her able to use facial expressions.

The importance of the expressions is then discussed, as well as body language, and how we use both of these ways of communication to express how we feel, even when doing something as simple as walking down the street. A disgruntled married couple is then analyzed by a psychologist who claims that simply by watching expressions of a couple fighting discloses more than their actual argument.

Pictures of people in college are then analyzed and interviewed present day to see if the assumptions from simply looking at the picture are correct and if their lives correlate with the expression given on their faces.

The skill of reading facial expressions is then discussed, as how and why people learn this behavior and how sometimes this skill is used to manipulate others, such as lying. Lying is shown in various studies in both analyzing how well people can lie and how well people can tell when others are lying. It was shown that even experts, with the exception of secret service agents, cannot tell a lie any more than an average person. They can tell this by analyzing micro-expressions such as small wrinkles in the brow.

Various cultures are then looked at to see differences in facial expressions. Links between children playing video games and problems in relationships have been found, as facial expressions may be altered by less interaction with other people at a young age. It’s been found that if anyone spends a great period of time alone, this will greatly effect their facial expressions, as well as social interactions.

How technology, such as cars and computers, effect interactions is discussed with the idea that people are more aggressive and rude in technological interactions because there is no face to face contact. A doctor who leads “laughter” clubs is then interviewed, who holds the ideology that these sessions make you happier, boosts immune systems and releases stress.

The Human Face Vol. II

The video begins with looking at how humans even as young as infancy have preference for certain types of faces that are seen as “beautiful” by adults and society. Multiple actors and actresses are interviewed about beauty and its importance in the world today. It then discusses how important beauty can be by discussing studies that show that beautiful people get better jobs and earn more money.

The fashion industry is also looked at throughout a fashion competition, as seeing what is considered beautiful in this particular business and how this affects overall society. In the fashion competition, what they see as beautiful is women who have eyes wide spaced, not a flat face, and a strong jaw. The video goes on to say that scientists have found that it’s not just personal taste, but patterns and even rules for what is found beautiful.

They interview a plastic surgeon who did a study on what people find is beautiful by looking at 18 faces of real female patients from the ages of 14-30 and found that throughout cultures and ages ranked the pictures almost exactly the same. He also found that there are baby faces and adult faces that are more attractive and that normally babies that are attractive are attractive when their older.

Female attractiveness is then analyzed by seeing what is found beautiful, such as health, youth and full lips, especially being between the ages of 14 and 24. The plastic surgeon believes a beautiful woman has both an adult beautiful face and baby beautiful face: the maturity of high cheekbones, and smooth skin, as well as cupid’s bow upper lip, retruded chin, and lower jaw features of an infant.

The uses of make-up are then discussed-why women use it and what make-up does to increase beauty. Research is also looked at that is studying the link between symmetry in the face to athletic ability, which seems to prove that the better symmetry of the face, the better symmetry of the body, and the better ability of the runner. Symmetry also is proved to be considered more attractive because it is seen as healthier, and therefore more attractive to the opposite sex for mating reasons. This is discussed even in Hollywood movies, as many times the hero is seen as clear faced with a symmetrical face and the villain is unattractive with a nonsymmetrical and unclear face, showing that morality and inner attributes are often associated with beauty.

A man recovering from face cancer with a deformity on the left side of his face is interviewed about this concept and compared with the story of the surgeon whose mother’s face was suddenly deformed after a car accident. Pythagoras and the Golden Ratio of the 1.16:1 proportion of beauty is then discussed. The surgeon used the golden ratio to make a “mask” of pentagons that, if held over a picture of a face, can be used to show what is “beautiful”. If a face fits the pentagon mask, then they are attractive. Then, differences in what people believe are beautiful are analyzed throughout time, age, cultures and gender.

Also, negative effects of beauty are discussed, such as how people compare themselves to models and celebrities, as well as how beautiful people at times have depressing consequences because of their attractiveness.

I'm Still Here: The truth about schizophrenia

The film talks about the common misconceptions about the disorder. The talks about how persons with this disorder slip through the cracks (meaning government programs) as well as shows how persons living with disorder struggle with life after being diagnosed, they also tell you how they figured out they had a problem. The movie depicts these persons as people, not patients.

In Search of Human Origins: Episode One - The story of Lucy

In Search of Human Origins: Episode Two - Surviving Africa

In Search of Human Origins: Episode Three - The Creative Revolution

In Search of the First Language

This is a film talks about all the different languages of the world. It ask the question did language come from one central tongue and branch out or was there always multiple tongues. In order to find this out they talked about how some languages survives while others die out. The film talks about the methods used to preserve a language and tells where all the languages originated and breaks down how they differ into different types of language and their morph to new languages and how they borrow from each other.

Introductory Psychology Volume I (CNN Video)

Introductory Psychology Volume II (CNN Video)

Issues in Psychology Volume I

STRESS

Lost in the Jungle - post-traumatic stress(17:27)
Allergic to Living (14:08)

DEPRESSION/DISORDERS

New Mother's Nightmare (15:13)
I Know He's Out There (14:50)
Secret No More (27:52)

GENDER

What are the Differences Between Men and Women (8:07)
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (8:34)

Issues in Psychology Volume II

THERAPY

Psychotherapy Under Scrutiny (8:41)
Saying Goodbye Forever (15:15)
You Can Work It Out (19:21)

VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION

Motivation: What Causes Crime (7:50)
Female Gangs - Parts I & II (9:52)
Pushed to the Edge (44:24)

Issues in Psychology Volume III

PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions (70:85)
Is It Such a Crime? (14:09)
Age Discrimination (5:06)

Kids Scientific America

Narrated by Alan Alda. This program tracks the development from infancy to 10 years of age (adult-like) in three different domains. First, the video looks at the research on infants learning to control their movements. Begins with Myrtle McGraw’s research on babies learning to walk. Her early videos of the process raised the question how much of adult-like movement is innate and how much must be specifically learned. Esther Thelen (IU) believes that babies aren’t pre-programmed and have to learn for themselves. She videotapes babies’ kicking and reaching and demonstrates that, while almost all babies eventually become proficient at these activities, each baby takes its own idiosyncratic route to get there.

Law, Medicine and Allied Health Professions

Life's Greatest Miracle (NOVA)

This film talks about the birth process from conception to delivery. It explains how baby’s are formed and kept while they are inside the mother’s womb. The film explains how baby’s feed while inside the mother and explain the stages babies and mothers go through in order to have a healthy birth process and why they are so important to the process.

Make Up Your Mind (Scientific American Frontiers)

- "How Phineas Lost It," phrenology, an 18th century pseudoscience, offered one of the earliest schemes for explaining brain function. Although based incorrectly on skull bumps and shapes, phrenology did attempt to organize and assign different purposes to different parts of the brain - the cornerstone of modern brain science.

- "Tough Choices," your brain has specific areas that process different types of information. One region works with language - able to decode letters and recognize the meaning of the words they form. Another analyzes colors. When the messages from these two centers clash, the brain is in conflict. To sort out the discrepancy and arrive at the "best" solution, scientists on the program theorize that brain relies on an area as called the anterior cingulate to help it focus.

The Stroop Effect was named after psychologist Ridley Stroop who investigated this phenomenon in the 1930s. He uncovered that the act of reading words sends a message to the brain that is difficult to suppress. When a word's meaning is combined with a conflicting message, such as the word's color, it interferes with processing, causing delays and errors in the response.

The Man Who Made Up His Mind

Media Impact

This films tries to explain the effect that different types of media has on American society. The film starts off talking about movie theaters and how they have shaped American culture. Everything from how it got people to smoke to how movie makers form what you see. Then the movie talks about the effects of television on American culture. It talks about how it is the most powerful narcotic of all time. It also talks about how television purposely misinforms the public with some its shows and how violence on tv has lead to many stereotypes.

Memory

Menopause

The film talks about menopause and how it affects women of all ages. It begins by explaining some of the symptoms in women and then goes on to explain the difference it can make in her life. The film talks covers menopause from conditions such as premature menopause to menopause in older women and how that affects women’s quality of life. The film explains diseases that are complicated from going through menopause (osteoporosis, heart disease) as well as treatment suggestions (hormone therapy) to help combat these complications. The film also talks about how these treatments may and may not be the healthiest route to take because of other risk they give (breast cancer and maybe an increase in heart disease based on studies done). It also talks about fertilization after menopause and how women have a possibility to bear children.

Mind of Man: Sensation & Perception

The Mind Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 1 - 10

1. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mind

Explores such fundamental questions as "What is the mind?" and "What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?" Summarizes various views on the brain/mind connection. (This module sets the stage for the remaining 34 modules.)
2. Hypnotic Dissociation and Pain Relief

Describes what goes on during hypnosis and looks at states of consciousness, hypnosis as a phenomenon, and the therapeutic use of hypnosis in treating arthritis.
3. The Placebo Effect: Mind/Body Relationship

Explores a number of areas presented in general psychology, including biological bases of behavior, experimental control, health, and mind/body relationships.
4. Cognition and the Immune System: Mind/Body Interaction

Looks at mind/body interactions and their relationships to disease and the immune system.
5. Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine

Provides diagrammatic action graphics of neural networks, synaptic junctions, and neurotransmitter sites. Also touches on topics of consciousness, drug addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and nerve functioning.
6. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure and Addiction

Explores biological motivation and addictive behavior, and takes the viewer through scientists' work on brain stimulation.
7. The Frontal Lobes: Cognition and Awareness

Explains the importance of the frontal lobe in human functioning, and covers brain function, diagnostic assessment, cognitive function, evolution, and comparative behavior.
8. Language Processing in the Brain

Demonstrates learning as an active process and shows the PET scan as an effective method of measuring brain function.
9. Studying the Effects of Subliminal Stimulation on the Mind

Explores perception, the study of unconscious processes, and research methodologies. Provides a good example of the impact Freud has had on psychology and how it is possible to test some of his hypotheses in the laboratory.
10. Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing, Part 1

Raises many questions about the nature of memory and its importance to human existence. Introduces the viewer to Clive Wearing, who is incapable of making new memories due to viral encephalitis.

The Mind Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 11 - 17

11. Clive Wearing, Part 2: Living Without Memory

Presents an extraordinary example of the relationship between brain damage and memory function by reintroducing the viewer to Clive Wearing 13 years after his appearance in part one.
12. Teratogens and Their Effects on the Developing Brain and Mind

Discusses the biological basis of behavior by illustrating case studies of humans affected by radiation contamination, alcohol, and drugs.
13. Capabilities of the Newborn

Covers infant development and the capacities of the newborn.
14. Infant Cognitive Development

Illustrates two ways of studying infant behavior: brain activity and visual fixation.
15. Social Development in Infancy

Covers infant social/cognitive development and the emergence of self.
16. The Effect of Aging on Cognitive Function: Nature/Nurture

Explores how the study of identical twins can help determine how factors such as lifestyle and diet may contribute to individual differences in the aging process.
17. Aging and Memory

Illustrates how a common form of forgetting involving future intentions can be studied in the laboratory, and presents a new way of studying age differences via memory.

The Mind Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 18 - 28

18. Effects of Mental and Physical Activity on the Brain/Mind

Introduces Dr. William Greenough's expanded studies on the effects of mental and physical activity on the aging brain and mind.
19. Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

Provides a clear demonstration of how the advent of new technologies has aided research into the etiology of disease.
20. Phantom Limb Pain

Presents a vivid example of phantom limb pain and raises important questions about the origin of the pain.
21. Treating Chronic Pain

Studies chronic pain and examines physical and psychological approaches to treatment.
22. Depressants and Their Addictive Effect on the Brain

Shows what happens biochemically in alcohol and drug addiction; deals with states of consciousness, addiction, and alcohol-related abnormal behaviors.
23. Infant Speech Sound Discrimination

Demonstrates how infants can discriminate between subtle sound differences; focuses largely on infant speech development.
24. Language Predisposition

Deals with language, development, and research methodology; provides a good demonstration of human sound recognition abilities.
25. Human Language: Signed and Spoken

Explores how sign language is processed; discusses hemispheric specialization, language acquisition, the nature of language formation, and methodology.
26. The Bilingual Brain

Illustrates the capabilities of the fMRI, one of the latest technologies used by scientists to investigate brain functions.
27. Animal Language

Examines animal communication, the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and comparative cognitive behavior.
28. Language and Culture

Relates to language development, the nature versus nature debate, and cultural influences on behavior.

The Mind Teaching Modules (2nd edition) 29 - 35

29. Alcohol Addiction: Hereditary Factors

Deals with alcoholism, addiction, biological evidence for hereditary traits, and how science progresses through replication and the development of new technologies.
30. Treating Drug Addiction: A Behavioral Approach

Provides an example of how drug therapies incorporate the results of research on several levels of behavior, and shows how patients learn to deal with environmental triggers for cravings.
31. Mood Disorders: Mania and Depression

Presents vivid examples of the mood fluctuations of patients who suffer from periodic affective episodes.
32. Mood Disorders: Hereditary Factors

Illustrates the findings of a 10-year study that involved 12,000 volunteers in an Amish community and represents careful analysis of genetic factors related to manic-depressive disorders.
33. Mood Disorders: Medication and Talk Therapy

Shows the effectiveness of combining drug therapies with traditional psychotherapy.
34. Treating Depression: Electroconvulsive Therapy

Provides a clear and dramatic presentation of the process and some of the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
35. The Mind of the Psychopath

Presents the definition of and specific behaviors related to psychopathy, and the ongoing research on this subject.

The Mind: Teaching Modules 1-20

1: Brain/Mind Differences and Language: Apes and Humans
This module spans nearly three decades of naturalistic observation by Jane Goodall. Seeing her in the natural setting of a colony of chimps illustrates how she has been accepted into the animal culture as an unobtrusive observer. The module has to do with comparative social behavior and methods of field research, and provides a nice introduction to the comparative aspects of human language and animal communication.

2: Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine
This module provides diagrammatic action graphics of neural networks, synaptic junctions, neurotransmitter sites, and laboratory scenes from Hans Kosterlitz's facility in Scotland. The module relates to states of consciousness, drug addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and nerve functioning.

3: Pleasure Centers in the Brain
Early black-and-white footage of Robert Heath's work on human brain stimulation is integrated with current research on specific loci in the limbic area apparently involved with pleasurable sensations. The module has to do with biological motivation and addictive behaviors.

4: The Frontal Lobe and Cognitive Function
The module begins with a description of Bill, a law school graduate who passed the bar exam on the first try, then suffered an aneurism which damaged his right frontal lobe. This module conveys the importance of the frontal lobe in human functioning. Several testing situations are demonstrated for assessing brain damage. The difference between the rhesus and galago monkeys is clearly presented.

5: Recording Integrated Brain Activity
The measurement of brain activity associated with a simple finger pressure task is demonstrated in this clip. An application of MRI is shown, as well as other recording technology employed in studying cognitive functioning. The module demonstrates information processing, integrated brain activity, and methodology with regard to studying intact organisms.

6: Language Processing in the Brain
This module shows the versatility of the PET scan as a research tool. The still pictures and the action diagrams present this method of measuring brain function. The module illustrates the measurement of specific areas of brain function, learning as an active process, and advances in the methodology of studying the brain.

7: Prenatal Development
Using time-lapse photography, the module is able to show cell division and embryonic growth. A combination of live footage and action diagrams convey how complexity of form emerges during embryonic development. The scene of newborn infants illustrates how basic temperaments differ at a very young age. The narration raises important questions that relate to the nature/nurture issue so central to the topic of development.

8: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This module first shows an etching of Gin Lane, "A Portrait of Despair" by William Hogarth, while the narration focuses on one woman in the picture who is pouring alcohol down the mouth of a baby. The far reaching consequences of alcohol and drug abuse present on of the most serious problems in our society today - this module relates to the development section of most general psychology texts and provides a contemporary discussion topic.

9: Capabilities of the Newborn
Cecelia McCarton demonstrates how babies even hours old have innate responses such as rooting and grasping. The work of William Fifer on newborns' capacity to distinguish its mother's voice from other sounds is also covered.

10: Infant Cognitive Development
Jerome Kagan discuses the changes that take place around 2 or 3 months of age in human babies. The work of Eric Courchesne monitoring infant brain activity in response to image changes and the work of Leslie Cohen studying habituation by measuring visual fixation is also highlighted.

11: Social Development in Infancy
Jerome Kagan describes infant social/cognitive development while children act out the development sequence he explains. Infant social/cognitive development and the emergence of self are both discussed, as well as an example of the rouge test.

12: Nature-Nurture Interaction
This module covers how the study of identical twins can help to determine how factors such as lifestyle, diet and stress may contribute to individual differences in the aging process.

13: The Aging Brain
Donald Price's work on the effects of aging on the brain using the performance of young and old macaque monkeys is highlighted. An action diagram of how the cytoskeleton changes with age and how deterioration can be delayed by use. The program has to do with aging, comparative behavior, and health.

14: Aging and Memory
The module illustrates how older people can learn new material by employing mnemonic strategies, in this case the method of loci.

15: Environmental Stimulation and Brain Development
Reinforces the general finding that enriched environments promote positive brain growth and activity. These findings are supported by earlier studies going back to the work of Rosenzweig, Bennet, and Diamond.

16: Alzheimer's Disease
Shows how genetic predisposition and environment can trigger development of Alzheimer's disease. Shows identical twins, one with and one without Alzheimer's. The Work of Peter Davies is highlighted.

17: Studying the Unconscious Through Subliminal Perception
Presents a succinct example of how one might go about studying a construct like the unconscious with state-of-the-art technology. Howard Shevrin is cautious in offering what he calls "suggestive conclusion" about his research findings. The program shows clear example of sub and supraliminal perception and how they are studied in a labratory.

18: Phantom Limb Pain
Presents a vivid example of phantom limb pain and raises important questions about the origin of the pain.

19: Treating Chronic Pain
Studies chronic pain and examines physical and psychological approaches to treatment.

20: Attentional Aspects of Pain
This module brings the viewer a vivid description of the pain associated with a rigorous activity like ballet. The emphasis is on the attentional aspects of movement that can override the subjective quality of pain.

The Mind: Teaching Modules 21-38

21: Hypnotic Dissociation and Pain Relief
Provides a clear example of dissociative response patterns and looks at brain activity patterns related to the different dissociative states.

22: Depressants and Their Addictive Effect on the Brain
Shows what happens biochemically in alcohol and drug addiction; deals with states of consciousness, addiction, and alcohol-related abnormal behaviors.

23: Alcohol Addiction: Hereditary Factors
Deals with alcoholism, addiction, biological evidence for hereditary traits, and how science progresses through replication and the development of new technologies.

24: Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing
Raises many questions about the nature of memory and its importance to human existence. Introduces the viewer to Clive Wearing, who is incapable of making new memories due to viral encephalitis.

25: Infant Speech Sound Discrimination
Demonstrates how infants can discriminate between subtle sound differences; focuses largely on infant speech development.

26: Language Predisposition
Deals with language, development, and research methodology; provides a good demonstration of human sound recognition abilities.

27: Human Language: Signed and Spoken
Explores how sign language is processed; discusses hemispheric specialization, language acquisition, the nature of language formation, and methodology.

28: Animal Language
Examines animal communication, the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and comparative cognitive behavior.

29: Language and Culture
Relates to language development, the nature versus nature debate, and cultural influences on behavior.

30: Mood Disorders: Mania and Depression
Presents vivid examples of the mood fluctuations of patients who suffer from periodic affective episodes.

31: Mood Disorders: Hereditary Factors
Illustrates the findings of a 10-year study that involved 12,000 volunteers in an Amish community and represents careful analysis of genetic factors related to manic-depressive disorders.

32: Mood Disorders: Medication and Talk Therapy
Shows the effectiveness of combining drug therapies with traditional psychotherapy.

33: The Psychopath/Antisocial Personality: Nature or Nurture?
Presents the definition of and specific behaviors related to psychopathy, and the ongoing research on this subject.

34: Treating Depression: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Provides a clear and dramatic presentation of the process and some of the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

35: The Placebo Effect: Mind-Body Relationship
Explores a number of areas presented in general psychology, including biological bases of behavior, experimental control, health, and mind/body relationships.

36: Treating Drug Addiction: A Behavioral Approach
Provides an example of how drug therapies incorporate the results of research on several levels of behavior, and shows how patients learn to deal with environmental triggers for cravings.

37: Stress and Health
Looks at Robert Sapolski's research on how stress might account for the death of some brain cells. Observing a colony of baboons in the Serengeti, hierarchical patterns of dominance became evident, and it was discovered thatt high ranking baboons had developed an efficient response to stress.

38: Cognition and the Immune System
Looks at mind/body interactions and their relationships to disease and the immune system.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 2: Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine

This module provides diagrammatic action graphics of neural networks, synaptic junctions, neurotransmitter sites, and laboratory scenes from Hans Kosterlitz's facility in Scotland. The module relates to states of consciousness, drug addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and nerve functioning.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 3: Pleasure Centers in the Brain

Early black-and-white footage of Robert Heath's work on human brain stimulation is integrated with current research on specific loci in the limbic area apparently involved with pleasurable sensations. The module has to do with biological motivation and addictive behaviors.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 4: The Frontal Lobe and Cognitive Function

The module begins with a description of Bill, a law school graduate who passed the bar exam on the first try, then suffered an aneurism which damaged his right frontal lobe. This module conveys the importance of the frontal lobe in human functioning. Several testing situations are demonstrated for assessing brain damage. The difference between the rhesus and galago monkeys is clearly presented.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 7: Prenatal Development

Using time-lapse photography, the module is able to show cell division and embryonic growth. A combination of live footage and action diagrams convey how complexity of form emerges during embryonic development. The scene of newborn infants illustrates how basic temperaments differ at a very young age. The narration raises important questions that relate to the nature/nurture issue so central to the topic of development.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 8: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

This module first shows an etching of Gin Lane, "A Portrait of Despair" by William Hogarth, while the narration focuses on one woman in the picture who is pouring alcohol down the mouth of a baby. The far reaching consequences of alcohol and drug abuse present on of the most serious problems in our society today - this module relates to the development section of most general psychology texts and provides a contemporary discussion topic.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 9: Capabilities of the Newborn

Cecelia McCarton demonstrates how babies even hours old have innate responses such as rooting and grasping. The work of William Fifer on newborns' capacity to distinguish its mother's voice from other sounds is also covered.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 10: Infant Cognitive Development

Jerome Kagan discuses the changes that take place around 2 or 3 months of age in human babies. The work of Eric Courchesne monitoring infant brain activity in response to image changes and the work of Leslie Cohen studying habituation by measuring visual fixation is also highlighted.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 11: Social Development in Infancy

Jerome Kagan describes infant social/cognitive development while children act out the development sequence he explains. Infant social/cognitive development and the emergence of self are both discussed, as well as an example of the rouge test.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 12: Nature, Nurture Interaction

This module covers how the study of identical twins can help to determine how factors such as lifestyle, diet and stress may contribute to individual differences in the aging process.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 15: Environmental Stimulation and Brain Development

Reinforces the general finding that enriched environments promote positive brain growth and activity. These findings are supported by earlier studies going back to the work of Rosenzweig, Bennet, and Diamond.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 17: Studying the Unconscious Through Subliminal Perception

Presents a succinct example of how one might go about studying a construct like the unconscious with state-of-the-art technology. Howard Shevrin is cautious in offering what he calls "suggestive conclusion" about his research findings. The program shows clear example of sub and supraliminal perception and how they are studied in a labratory.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 22: Depressants and Their Addictive Effect on the Brain

Shows what happens biochemically in alcohol and drug addiction; deals with states of consciousness, addiction, and alcohol-related abnormal behaviors.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 23: Alcohol Addiction: Hereditary Factors

Deals with alcoholism, addiction, biological evidence for hereditary traits, and how science progresses through replication and the development of new technologies.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 25: Infant Speech Sound Discrimination

Demonstrates how infants can discriminate between subtle sound differences; focuses largely on infant speech development.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 26: Language Predisposition

Deals with language, development, and research methodology; provides a good demonstration of human sound recognition abilities.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 28: Animal Language

Examines animal communication, the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and comparative cognitive behavior.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 31: Mood Disorders: Hereditary Factors

Illustrates the findings of a 10-year study that involved 12,000 volunteers in an Amish community and represents careful analysis of genetic factors related to manic-depressive disorders.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 32: Mood Disorders: Medication and Talk Therapy

Shows the effectiveness of combining drug therapies with traditional psychotherapy.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 33: The Psychopath/Antisocial Personality: Nature or Nurture?

Presents the definition of and specific behaviors related to psychopathy, and the ongoing research on this subject.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 35: The Placebo Effect: Mind-Body Relationship

Explores a number of areas presented in general psychology, including biological bases of behavior, experimental control, health, and mind/body relationships.

The Mind Teaching Module Program 36: Treating Drug Addiction: A Behavioral Approach

Provides an example of how drug therapies incorporate the results of research on several levels of behavior, and shows how patients learn to deal with environmental triggers for cravings.

The Mind Volume 2: Development

The Mind Volume 5: Pain and Healing

Mirror Neurons

Multiple Personality Disorder (Primetime Live)

TV news magazine with Diane Sawyer interviewing “Eve” of The Faces of Eve. Okay for historical perspective and update on current views.

Mystery of Animal Pathfinders

This is a film that follows the different migration patterns of many different animals. It covers every type of migration by giving examples of different animal’s patterns as well as their evolutionary progress in order to make the trip work explaining why they make the trip (from weather problems to food sources). It also explains how they are tracked and how far they travel as well as why.

Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Obedience - Milgram Study - 45:00

The Odyssey of Life - The Ultimate Journey

Oltman Tape

This tape contains a series of diagnostic vignettes – each about 10-15 minutes in length

V1 - Dysthymic Disorder
Patient is a black female in her 40’s. She came to the clinic at the advice of her husband. Until this is compared with V2 (Major depressive disorder), it is difficult to determine whether the patient has dysthymia or major depression. Could be helpful in actually using DSM IV criteria to classify symptoms properly.

V2 - Major Affective Disorder
White female 20-30 years of age. In comparison, it is clear that she is more obviously seriously depressed than the woman in V1. Body language is clenched, no eye contact, speech is slow and difficult to understand. It’s almost as if she can’t make any outside contact at all. She reports feeling useless and ashamed. Reports no enjoyment from any activities. She also repots energy level is down and that she has lost her appetite and has not been sleeping. This is a good example of an examiner asking questions that need to be specifically answered to make a diagnosis based on DSM IV criteria.

V3 - Major depressive episode with mood congruent psychotic features.
Patient is a white male probably in his 40’s. He also exhibits little or no eye contact and strange body language. Reports that he is hearing voices that are saying, “bring that faggot son of a bitch back to Indy and let’s finish this.” He reports these voices may be the KKK or the county sheriff. It is much easier to see the psychotic features in this Vignette than the depressive features.

V4 - Major affective disorder, superimposed on atypical anxiety disorder.
Patient is a white male in his 50’s. He reports that he doesn’t think he’ll ever get out of the hospital, although he says he isn’t crazy. He believes he is going to die. Reports having tried numerous medications. He states that he just can’t do the things he used to be able to do. When asked about his mood in the past several months, he compares it to feeling like he is going to die. Hen he talks about how he worries all the time – that the refrigerator might quit or that he would have a flat tire. He was at the hospital because he attempted suicide.

V4 - A - Bipolar Affective Disorder (2 sections – 1st depressive, 2nd hypomanic)
White female in her 30’s. In the first vignette, she talks about how she is depressed and is being forced into a marriage with someone she doesn’t like. She keeps saying she can’t take it anymore. She took an overdose of pills. She also claims that she definitely wanted to die when she took the pills. Her body language is typical of that of a depressed individual. She claims she is tired. but can’t relax.

V4 – B
The same white female from V4 – A is in a clinical interview and is exhibiting classic signs of mania or hypomanic. Her body language is erratic and high-strung. She is full of self-flattery. She talks about how she is Miss-America looking and that she is dazzling. She talks quickly and switches subjects. The change from V4 –A is so dramatic and the behavior so obviously atypical students could easily view her behavior as manic. The distinction between mania and hypomania becomes clear when this woman’s behavior is compared with the behavior of the man in V5.

V5 – Bipolar disorder – manic episode.
Patient is a black male 20-30 years of age. Initially, his body language is not as ‘manic’ as woman in V4. However, it quickly becomes clear that totally unrealistic delusions of grandeur are present. His beliefs that he is either going to play Olympic basket ball or in the NBA are totally unfounded, as is his disconnected, but also recurring talk about how his past behavior won’t influence his being drafted by the NBA. He stays up days and nights on end playing ball. About half way through the interview, he reports he feels constrained and needs to get up and walk around the office. He reports that he was institutionalized when he was 17.

V6 – Another Bipolar Disorder – manic episode.
Patient is a white male in the 20-30 year-old range. He walks constantly around the office, and cannot hold any part of his body still. This V is most interesting because of his body language.

V7 – Third Bipolar – manic episode.
Patient is in his late teens – early 20’s. Each of these episodes depicting mania is interesting. They could be used in sequence, or any one could be used to effectively illustrate the disorder. The main difference in the subjects is their age, and each vignette is representative of mania.

V8 – Schizophrenia – paranoid type.
Patient is a male in his 30’s or 40’s. From the beginning of the interview, he is not making sense. He talks about how there are multiple types of communication and that it is obvious that people are communicating in ways that he will not acknowledge. He will not respond to communication type 2, because that means that people are talking abut homosexuals and lesbians. He is paranoid that the lesbians and homosexuals are walking around communicating with one another. He has observed and analyzed this and now has fully figured out this type 2 communication. He clearly is hyper-focused on this plot by the gay and lesbian community and he is clearly out of touch with reality. He reports that he has been locked up for 20 years for rape. Also, he was sexually abused by his uncle.

V9 – Schizophrenia – paranoid type.
Male 20-30 years of age. He reports that the army brought him into the hospital. When asked why, he reports that he is a known killer and that he has killed 200-300 people. He believes he killed these people to keep them from committing violent behavior. He also reports that he was the highest-ranking intelligence agent in the country. He was recently in a car wreck and had been “self-medicating “ himself with hashish. When asked why the government did not mind that a high ranking officer was taking drugs, he claims they are not drugs, but rather are approved stress-relieving medications for high ranking international officials.

V10 – Schizophrenic disorder – disorganized type.

Only Human (Discovery Channel, 2002)

Panic, Fears, Phobia

Pieces of Mind (Scientific American Frontiers)

The Man with Two Brains (running time: 10:05) - Studies with so-called "split-brain" patients yield fascinating information about how the brain works

Remembering What Matters (running time: 8:35) - Why do we remember experiences that are emotionally significant? A neurobiologist shares his findings

True or False? (running time: 8:57) - A noted brain researcher explores false memory.

What's in a Dream? (running time: 13:28) - Join host Alan Alda as he spends the night in a sleep lab. Find out what happens during REM sleep and why.

Old Brain/New Tricks (running time: 10:50) - Is there a critical window to learning language? One neuroscientist's work suggests that very early learning is best.

Prisoners of Silence (long version)

Prisoners of Silence-Autism & Facilitated Communication (short version)

Psychology Volume 1 (ABC News)

Psychology Volume II (ABC News)

Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World

Psychology Majors Succeeding in Business

Psychology: Sleeping and Dreaming

A Question of Learning

Scene 1:
Monkeys cradle babies and then put them down – led to questions of whether learning was innate or had to be specifically taught.
Introduces reflexes
Pavlov wanted to see what caused salvia to flow.
Discovered the salivary reflex response. They salivated when their tongues touched food.
EX1 – introduction of metronome to signal food. After many trials, the dog connected the ticking to the presentation of food.
Conditioned reflex – almost any stimulus could cause dogs to produce saliva.
P thought all animals needed 2 kinds of reflexes – innate and acquired.
Creatures need to recognize signals, but Pavlov took theory too far, ascribing elaborate behaviors to conditioning.

Scene 2
Clever Hans –
Taught to ‘do math’ – he tapped out responses with his hoof.
This scene demonstrates how researchers’ preconceptions and expectations can color their analysis of data. Von ustin believed Clever Hans could actually do math.
This turns out to be an example of operant conditioning where the trainer doesn’t even know what is being used for training.
As it happens, Von Austin unknowingly looked away when the horse had tapped the correct number of times.
Clever Hans was picking up visual cues from VA – but it took scientists awhile to figure out what those were.
The horse knew nothing about math, but was good at picking out clues that would lead to reward.

Scene 3
Thorndike – used mazes for measuring learning ability. He was trying to find general laws of learning. He was a statistician, and so performed scientifically rigid experiments.
Measures how long chicks take to find food and other chicks. Initial trial, several minutes. Successive trials yielded quicker times. Animals did not learn suddenly, but gradually over time.
Thorndike’s cat puzzle boxes – when cat placed in box for the first time, there were no flashes of insight. The correct behavior is initially learned by trial and error.
Law of effect – the consequences of a behavior effects its likelihood.
Thorndike’s contribution was partially to measure performance, and mazes did that well, other scientists at the beginning of the century were using mazes to investigate the internal working of the mind.

Scene 4
John Watson –
Watched the behavior of sooty turns. He was fascinated how each sooty turn could recognize their own nests. Could they identify their own eggs? Was the egg or the nest the clue to homing ability?
Watson part II –
Trained rats to run the length of an ally to obtain food. If the length of the ally is changed, even thought the food is clearly in view, the rat won’t eat. His point is that habituated behavior is decidedly difficult to change.
1913 – Watson’s Manifesto on Behaviorism

Scene 5
B.F. Skinner –
Scheduling of rewards effects the speed of learning.
Does a god job of introducing reward schedules and giving real world examples.

Scene 6
Zoologists believed that complex behavior could not be simply learned by conditioning - it was adaptive and therefore inherited.
Argument over nature vs. nurture –
Experiments with birds (birdsong) sought to see how much of a behavior was inherited and how much was learned.

Ramachandran (Nova, 2001)

A series of case histories:

1) 4 min. 30 sec. Phantom limb. Large reorganization. Touches face and elicits sensations in a patient’s phantom hand. Curing phantom limb pain with mirror box. (Good animation of cortical representation)

2) 16 min. 8 sec. Blindsight. Can tell direction of movement of objects that cannot be seen. Colin Blackmore is interviewed. Detection without awareness. Two visual pathways: older, brainstem detects. Newer, recognition, consciousness.

3) 24 min. Visual neglect patient. Draws half of objects, even objects from memory. (lots of speculation) What and how pathways.

4) 29 min 25 sec. Another patient who has the delusion that his parents look just like his parents but are not. Analysis: connection with amygdala is damaged. No emotion with visual processing. Interesting that over the phone he recognizes his father and believes that he is talking with his father. Auditory to amygdala pathway is okay.

5) 40 min. 18 sec. Temporal lobe epilepsy. Spiritual feelings. Patient feels omnipotent.

Rape: An Act of Hate

This film talks about how it feels to be in a rape situation. It explains the truths and hardships that women go through during recovery as well as clear up some myths about rape incidents by providing facts. The film explains how women are seen as not only the victim but also the cause of the rape. The film list and explains recovery facilities and programs designed to help the victim then goes on to explain the damage it causes in women’s lives. It also talks about why a rapist commit their crimes and what can be done to help them deal with raping as well as the rapist.

Reinforcement Therapy

Research in Psychology

Research Methods (2001)

The Schizophrenias

Schizophrenic and Hyperactive Child

Secret Life of the Brain: The Baby's Brain

Secret Life of the Brain: The Child's Brain

Secret Life of the Brain: The Teenager's Brain

Secrets of a Wild Child

This film tells the story of a girl named Genie, who was found living in a dark room, chained to a potty chair for 10 years. It was stated that her parents left her there but when they were caught the story then became that of an abusive father and a scared mother. When she was discovered she had no language and moved and interacted with the world differently than most persons. The question became whether she was born retarded or was it due to social and environmental problems. The test then became could a special team of doctors and psychologist help her learn to live life like a normal human and could she break the supposed language barrier (the theory that it was a critical point in early child development, that if missed could cause serious learning problems). The story takes on a ride inside the life and times and the research of this study.

Secrets of the Mind (Nova)

Secrets of the Psychics

A film that talks about psychics and their supposedly paranormal ability to tell peoples past, explain their future or help in any other aspect of their life. The film exploits and explains that psychics are not real, instead it is the power of illusion and the ability to persuade and the want on the consumer’s part to be fooled that give rise to these phenomena. The host entire point is to exploit by using normal scientific reasoning, the fact that psychics are not likely to be among us (at least not as grand as we think) and that the best advancement we have is science.

Seeing Beyond the Obvious: Understanding Perception in Everyday and Novel Environments

This film was about the visual system and how we perceive the environment. This film covers everything from the workings of the eye to explaining imagery in the brain, to how use the tricks of our imagery and perceptions to create technology used to help correct many wrong cues. It shows how these illusions work and why.

Social and Applied Psychology

Social Psychology, 8th Edition (CNN Video)

Split Brain - 9.75

Stanford Prison Study - 20:00

Stranger in the Mirror

This film deals with a visual impairment called visual agnosia. This is an impairment where a person can see the world around them but they can’t interpret the world. The film shows two different cases, one which is more severe where the person can’t tell if patterns are different and the second can. The film explains how the visionary system works with other parts of the brain and identifies what regions are damaged. The film also shows the persons affected strategies for getting by and the treatment and psychological reasoning and experiments tried to figure out the mystery.

Three Approaches to Psychotherapy

To Find the Words (ABC Home Video)

Twins (recorded from Nova 1982)

This film is dedicated to telling the truths about twins through all the documentation and experiments. It compares fraternal twins and identical twins, exploring and explaining that identical twins share more in common than fraternal twins. While this is believed to be because of the amount of genetic identicalness in identical twins, it has been seen that they share more in common than just basic physical make-up. Identical twins typically do things together, experience certain life events at the same time (both tangible and intangible), they mimic each other in ways that would be thought to be impossible, but the only thing you see a difference in twins with is their attitudes. Some examples were the two twins that were separated at birth and the telling of relationships with friends and family, comparing the difference between identical twins and regular siblings vs fraternal twins.

A Variety of Careers with a Ph.D.

Video Briefs -Demonstration tape accompany's Wade/Tavris, Psychology

Research Ethics (2:43)
Biology and Perception (11:25)
Consciousness (12:24)
Memory (5:20)
Cognition, Language and Intelligence (9:58)
Human Development (8:06)
Motivation and Emotion (4:34)
Gender and Sexuality (11:06)
Health and Stress (5:07)
Psychological Disorders (8:44)
Therapy (12:21)
Social Psychology (7:55)

"The Visit" (E.R. Episode - bipolar disorder)

In this ER episode, borrowed from the network with permission, Sally Field portrays a woman with Bipolar II disorder. She makes a visit to see her daughter, one of the physicians in the ER. Her daughter immediately recognized her mother is off of her medication and initially denies that she knows her. When security and the nurses try and get her to leave the ER, she talks to them excitedly and excessively. She brings bagel breakfasts, and tells all the female nurses how beautiful they are and how she will give them a splendid make-over. Abby, the daughter finally does admit that this is her mother. She has an insightful conversation with a friend where she reports what it was like to grow up with a mother with bipolar disorder. She claims one day or week would be the best – they would paint the living room and make it into a tropical rainforest, or stay up all night playing and doing the most creative things. But then, she said, out of the blue her mom would end up in bed crying for weeks. She learned to scam food from the neighbors early. The issue of medication is also addressed. She admits stopping taking her medication because, “she can’t do these wonderful, creative things while she is taking it.” She also admits taking Prozac, unwisely prescribed by her family doctor, even though she knows that medication makes her more manic.

Visual Cliff - 10:05

This is a short film that asks and answers the question of if babies and animals can distinguish the difference in depth. The experiment is explained as putting animals or babies on a cliff and having the choose a side to walk on. Each side has a different depth to it but the drop is the same because of the glass floor that is even on both sides. It turns out that both animals and babies choose the side where the ground seems closer and try their best to stay off the alternate deeper side, even when there is a stimulus present this still is the case.

Visual Perception - 18:20

This short film is used to demonstrate the difference in how we see the world and how it really exist. The film uses various experiments to explain how powerful and why we see the world the way we do. It is said that because we mainly just use mental cues and shortcuts that we can make mistakes that often time result in a misconception. What is even more surprising is that even though we comprehend and understand an environment as disproportioned we can still make visual errors. The only solution to really seeing the environment for what it is is to work through the situation using trail and error, because it helps you to adapt appropriately.

Voyage to the Galapagos (PBS Video)

Why Planes Crash (Nova)

A movie explaining why planes though rare, occasionally crash. This movie explains that human error is one of the leading causes for planes crashing the (biggest being communication problems in the cockpit) and not technical failure. The movie explains the methods that airlines go through to improve communication and awareness during flying. It also highlights the future technology of the plane and the ways that technology increases the chance of a plane crash.

A Woman's Health (PBS, 1994)

This is a film that shows the six most current health issues that women are facing today told by women that have these problems. The film is broken up into six different parts as listed below, first was the effects of smoking, second was women suffering from heart attacks, the third was chronic depression, fourth was menopause combined with osteoporosis, fifth was domestic abuse from the husband, and last was breast cancer. Each educate how women live with these problems in a coping way and how it feels to have such problems.

The World of Abnormal Psychology: Mood Disorders

The main focus of this video is to show what it feels like to have schizophrenia through personal accounts and interviews and to explore that factors that onset schizophrenia and what can be done to treat it.

Schizophrenia is first introduced by interviewing schizophrenics and explaining how to diagnose one with schizophrenia. The video describes the symptoms of schizophrenia as being unusual thoughts such as paranoid and/or delusional thoughts, hallucinations that are usually auditory, and disorganization of thought and speech. There also is a case study of a chronic schizophrenic who is close to leaving a mental hospital to attempt to go back into the real world.

The misconceptions of schizophrenia are then discussed, such as the fears of non-schizophrenic people of the supposed “violent” nature of schizophrenics, the stereotypes that schizophrenics have multiple personalities, and the idea that most homeless are schizophrenic. The video also touches upon causal factors, showing that this disease is caused by multiple different factors. Brain activity is then discussed and analyzed of both chronic and acute schizophrenics, which gives more information that can be used to understand what causes this disease. This information leads the doctors on the video to describe what medication is helpful in treating this disorder. Twin studies are also discussed to show other studies they have to done to help explain this disorder and its heredity. The onsets for schizophrenia, both biological and environmental are listed and conversed as well. Effects on family of schizophrenics are discussed and family members of those stricken with this disorder are interviewed to show the stress and pain it can cause not only an individual, but their entire family.

Treatments such as the various types of medication, therapy, hospitalization and shock therapy are discussed, as well as the frequency these treatments are used. Success rates for each treatment are included, as well as how treatment and success rates for schizophrenia over the years has changed and improved. Patients with this disorder are shown in video interviews both on and off medication, to show how significant drug treatment can be. Side effects of these medications are also brought up. The goals of their treatment are to help patients understand the illness, identify and manage their needs and to gain control over thoughts and needs. The video concludes with thoughts from the patients about their struggles and triumphs in dealing with schizophrenia.

The World of Abnormal Psychology: Psychological Factors and Physical Illness

This program examines the relationship between emotions and health to explore how psychological treatment can improve well-being. It focuses on a teenager with migraine headaches, a dentist trying to decrease his risk for developing heart disease, and a woman with breast cancer, along with those who are treating them.

The World of Abnormal Psychology: The Schizophrenias

This video is an excellent academic presentation of schizophrenia. It combines academic explanations of the issues involved in schizophrenia with actual interviews with patients. The narrator usually specifically points out the symptoms and issues that should be looked for n the patient interviews. Also, several of the interviews are conducted by psychiatrists in Hospitals and they go through the process of making decisions of whether and to what extent the patients were capable of living on their own. The second part of the video specifically addresses the symptoms and problems associated with Type II schizophrenia and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Finally, hypothesis as to the cause of the disease are presented and the brain abnormalities associated with the disease are illustrated. The use of anti-psychotic medication is discussed and the narrator points out that the meds are much more helpful in treating the positive than the negative symptoms.