Coast Learning Systems - Psychology: The Human Experience (part1of2)

This telecourse offers insights into key concepts and principles of psychology through a focus on human experience. Interviews with subject matter experts, researchers, and other experts in the field of psychology are used to explain and apply psychological concepts in twenty-six 30-minute programs. Each video is a complete lesson, and utilizes original videography of biological processes, as well as historical and contemporary research. Stories of challenge, relationships, investigation, hope, and inspiration are told using original footage of real life case studies. Animated three-dimensional computer graphics of life processes and concepts are also incorporated in each lesson. Awards: Emmy

1: Why Study Human Behavior? introduces psychology as a science of behavior and mental processes. It explains how understanding why we think and act as we do enhances our lives. 2: Research Methods in Psychology provides an overview of observational and descriptive research by illustrating how the scientific method is used to study the relationship between violent video games and aggression. 3: The Nervous System provides learning about the components of the nervous system and the methods used for studying the brain through the story of a hemispherectomy patient. 4: The Neuron and Neural Transmission illustrates how the brain communicates with the body by explaining what the neuron is, how it functions, and what happens to that communication when neurological disorders occur. 5: Sensation and Perception demonstrates how our senses gather information about the world around us. Perception is also covered in depth. 6: Consciousness illustrates how our consciousness and awareness vary throughout a typical day. It also explores the impact of circadian rhythms. 7: Learning: Classical and Operant Conditioning discusses Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment and how it demonstrates the process of learning by an association or relationship. 8: Learning: Observational and Cognitive Approaches discusses observational learning. The cognitive process of learning is illustrated using B. F. Skinner's research. 9: Memory answers the question of "What is memory?" and explains how our sense of identity relies on memories of personal history and connections with the people around us. 10: Language and Cognition explores the fact that most animals have the ability to communicate, but only humans have language, symbols for objects, actions, ideas, and feelings. 11: Intelligence and Creativity explores what intelligence means in different environments and cultures and discusses nature versus nurture and the history and biases of intelligence testing. 12: Motivation offers an in-depth discussion of biological and social theories of motivation, intertwined with Bandura's presentation on the role of self-efficacy. 13: Emotion asks the following questions: What are emotions? Are they learned or are they innate? Are they expressed in the same way throughout most cultures?

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment
English | XviD | 544x384 | 25fps | MP3 | 128kbps | 300MB

TV documentary story of the 1971 psychological test designed to examine the corrupting nature of power. On-screen participation by Professor Philip Zimbardo.

Scientific American MIND - SEX and the Secret Nerve

2007 February, vol. 18, no. 1
| Abnormal Attraction | The Truth about Online Dating | Sex and the Secret Nerve | Sticking Point | No Place Like Home | Why It's So Hard to Be Happy | Seduced by Sleep | Jumping to Conclusions | Love of Garbage |

Scientific American SE- The Hidden Mind

2002 April, vol. 12, no. 1
| How the Brain Creates the Mind | The Problem of Consciousness | Vision: A Window on Consciousness | The Split Brain Revisited | Sex Differences in the Brain | New Nerve Cells for the Adult Brain | Sign Language in the Brain | The Meaning of Dreams | Emotion, Memory and the Brain | The Neurobiology of Fear | The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease | The Puzzle of Conscious Experience |

Scientific American MIND - Creativity

2005 June, vol. 18, no. 1
| Neuroscience and the Law | Unleashing Creativity | Strangely Familiar | Fact or Phrenology?| Right Brain May Be Wrong | What's Wrong with This Picture? | Finding Our Way | Leonardo da Vinci, Neuroscientist | Drowning Mr. M | Alien Friends | The Will to Win | Friend or Foe? |

Scientific American MIND - The Science of Burnout

2006 June, vol. 17, no. 3
| Controlling Epilepsy | My Date with a Robot | Circuit Training | Bitter Could Be Better | Inside the Mind of a Savant | Beyond the Neuron Doctrine | Burned Out | Crossing the Barrier | Seeing in Black and White |

Scientific American MIND - Inner Vision

2006 February, vol. 17, no. 1
| Train Your Brain | One Person, One Neuron? | Mastery of Emotions | Do Animals Have Feelings? | Mindful of Symbols | Freud Returns | Science Probes Spirituality | Do Gays Have a Choice? | Combating Stress in Iraq | Fighting Parkinson's | Picture This |

Scientific American MIND - Human See, Human Do

2006 April, vol. 17, no. 2
| Electric Thoughts? | Staying Sober | Hunting for Answers | Neurotic about Neurons | Freud Returns | A Revealing Reflection | Essay: The New Science of Mind | Psychotherapy on Trial | Bird Brains? Hardly |

Scientific American MIND - The Chaos of Consciousness

2005 October, vol. 18, no. 3
| Lust for Danger | Big Answers from Little People | Smarter on Drugs | Judging Amy and Andy | Custody Disputed | Lighten Up | The Movie in Your Head | Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes | Mending the Spinal Cord | Just a Bit Different | The Psychology of Tyranny |

Scientific American MIND- Why We Help

2004 December, vol. 14, no. 5
| Stressed-Out Memories | Treating Depression: Pills or Talk? | The Samaritan Paradox | The Tyranny of Choice | The Limits of Multitasking | Secret Powers Everywhere | Worlds of Feeling | The Forgotten Brain Emerges | Taming Compulsion | Test Subjects in Diapers | Informing the ADHD Debate | How Group-Think Makes Killers | Casting Out the Demons | Thinking Out Loud |

Scientific American MIND- Memory Upgrade

2005 December, vol. 16, no. 4
| The Promise of eTherapy | Can We Cure Fear? | Picture Imperfect | Left Out | Control Your Anger | Brian Wilson: A Cork on the Ocean | Personality Crash | Erasing Memories | Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth | Likely Story |

Scientific American - The Child's Mind

exclusive online issue | no. 27

Scientific American MIND - The Joys of Telling Lies

2005 June, vol. 16, no. 2
| True Crimes, False Confessions | Sweet Dreams Are Made of This | Signing Gets a Scientific Voice | Head Attack | A Great Attraction | Natural-Born Liars | Your Own Hall of Memories | Buy This | Stopping the Bullies | The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis | The Quest of Christof Koch |

Abnormal Psychology With Infotrac: An Integrative Approach /With DSM-IV

David Barlow, Mark Durand
CDimage (IMG+CUE+CCD+SUB) | 570 Mb | English |Wadsworth Thomson Learning | ISBN 053450731X | 2000

“Balancing biological, psychological, social and cultural approaches, David Barlow and V. Mark Durand's ground-breaking integrative approach is the most modern, scientifically valid method for studying abnormal psychology. In this Fourth Edition of their proven «Abnormal Psychology», Barlow and Durand successfully blend sophisticated research (including new prevention coverage) and an accessible writing style with the most widely recognized method of discussing psychopathology. Going beyond simply describing different schools of thought on psychological disorders, the authors explore the interactions of the various forces that contribute to psychopathology. A conversational writing style, consistent pedagogical elements, integrated case studies (95 percent from authors' own files), video clips of clients (on the free accompanying Abnormal Psychology Live CD-ROM), and additional study tools make this text the most complete learning resource available. For instructors, an Instructor's Resource Manual, Test Bank, and a wide selection of videos are available to use when teaching the course.”