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Title:

Discovering psychology [videorecording] : updated edition / produced by WGBH Boston with the American Psychological Association.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Annenberg/CPB,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Psychology.

Other Authors:

Zimbardo, Philip G.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
American Psychological Association.
Annenberg/CPB Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Series host, Philip Zimbardo. Series host, Philip Zimbardo.

Contents:

Disc 1. Past, present, and promise -- Understanding research -- The behaving brain -- The responsive brain -- The developing child -- Language development -- Disc 2. Sensation and perception -- Learning -- Remembering and forgetting -- Cognitive processes -- Judgment and decision making -- Motivation and emotion -- Disc 3. The mind awake and asleep -- The mind hidden and divided -- The self -- Testing and intelligence -- Sex and gender -- Maturing and aging -- Disc 4. The power of the situation -- Constructing social reality -- Psychopathology -- Psychotherapy -- Health, mind and behavior -- Applying psychology in life -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Cultural psychology.

Summary:

Highlights major new developments in the field, offering an overview of classic and current theories of human behavior. Leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body. Based on extensive investigation and superior scholarship, this introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58976501

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)