INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

Visual Illusions Worksheet (After clicking on this link, you'll need to click on "visual illusions" in the list to get to the worksheet.)

Dictionary of Psychological Terms

Course Outcome Summary

Important links (mostly to streaming video):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/view/

Frontline : Hand of God. Pedophilia. For the description of how the pedophile got the victim to accept the abuse, watch the second chapter entitled, "Father Joseph Birmingham," from the beginning to 6 minutes 35 seconds in.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html

developmental psych

Stuart Brown says play is more than fun

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (Intelligence)

“She isn’t sick—she’s a dancer” 15:10 – 17:44

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

5:00 availability heuristic

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sherwin_nuland_on_electroshock_therapy.html

Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html

Martin Seligman on positive psychology

http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos.html

Lori Santos shows that both monkeys and humans are more apt to risk reducing a potential gain than losing what they already have.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

Jonathan Haidt on the genetic roots of liberals and conservatives

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms - covers divergent intelligence (brick & blanket test)

video is white board with artist drawing on it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html

Joachim de Posada - delayed gratification.

http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VD55136548/inside-the-world-of-childhood-schizophrenia?cid=abccomsearch_results

20/20 episode on childhood schizophrenia

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/depression/video-ch_10_vid.html?bandwidth=_hi&filetype=wmv

6:30 clip on deep brain stimulation from Emory University

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/

FRONTLINE: the meth epidemic | PBS

Anterograde amnesia Clive Wearing BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNDRDJy-vo&feature=player_embedded

Alzheimer’s 29 minutes treatment breakthroughs

http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/momentum-in-science.html

Alzheimer’s 59 seconds graphic of neurons

http://video.about.com/alzheimers/Alzheimer-s-Disease.htm

Alzheimer’s 9 minutes caregiver/relative stress

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5982435698156540658#

Ocd: the war inside 2002

http://watch.wliw.org/video/1317627359/

Alzheimer’s

http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/supplementary-inflammation-the-immune-system-and-alzheimers.html

False memory Meredith Maran – accuses dad of abuse then recants 3:45

http://vimeo.com/14865735

Controversy repressed memory- father convicted of murder then overturned 1:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRW-m_8nZzw

Dissociative fugue 4:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajubDsCcrw

Frontline: The Released. Mental patients in and out of prison

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/released/view/

Daniel Pink on Motivation:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc )

This second video is mostly the same info a bit more slowly and you can actually see him in this one:

(http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html )

Anorexia's Living Face (CBS News)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3361686n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTIjRxT_Y9g

Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts (Mostly medical , but you can imagine using this for rare, treatment-resistant OCD or depression.)

http://www.ted.com/talks/yoav_medan_ultrasound_surgery_healing_without_cuts.html

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

http://www.gapminder.org/ This link allows you to interact with Rosling's data

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo Cool 5 min overview of Rosling's data display ideas

Democrats and Republicans Can Be Differentiated from Their Faces (Article not video)

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008733

Story of HM (anterograde amnesiac) 2 minutes from CBS news 2009 (must watch 30 second commercial to access.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTw1MZ-uF8