Psychology Videos
Topic
Brain
Neuroscience
http://psychfiles.com
Neurons
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scienceno
w/3204/01.html
Brain
6:29
Teenage
Brain
Teenage
Brain Injury
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jim_fal
lon_exploring_the_mind_of_a_killer.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
shows/teenbrain/view/
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id
=6820615n
2:31
Alarming increase in child concussions. From
CBS News.
Brain
Plasticity
Gender/Socia
l Expectatins
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id
=2369546n#ixzz0yBGwRH9V
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKsQ
127BWM
3:54
Topic
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Piaget’s
Stages of
Development
Harry Harlow
Developmental Psychology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA04e
w6Oi9M&feature=related
Length
1:46
Exercising Your Brain Video- Plasticity. From
CBS News.
Modern video recreation (made to look old) of
the Good Wife’s Guide from Housekeeping
Monthly, 13 May, 1955.
Brief Description
The testing of Piaget’s stage of development.
Concrete operational child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OinqF
gsIbh0&feature=related
1:29
The testing of Piaget’s stage of development.
Egocentricism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8yJVhjS0&feature=related
1:03
Piaget - Stage 1 - Sensorimotor, Object
Permanence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLE
WVu815o
2:15
Piaget - Stage 2 - Preoperational - Lack of
Conservation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA04e
w6Oi9M&feature=related
0:56
Piaget - Stage 3 - Concrete – Reversibility
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=lw36PpYPPZM
0:59
Piaget - Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive
Reasoning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlfOec
rr6kI
Sensation & Perception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6q
cgoay4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVvEutgnQ
2:06
States of Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbmb
QkX7czo
Albert_Bandura_Bobo_Doll_experiment_
1
Length
2:48
Footage of Harlow’s monkeys and social
attachment.
Brief Description
Have student count the number times the ball is
being passed. Do they see the gorilla?
Hell's Kitchen Season 7 Episode. Hell’s
Kitchen on the importance of smell and vision
when tasting. 2 clips on disk.
Brief Description
News story on Skeeter the narcoleptic dog.
Operant
Conditioning
http://blogs.cornell.edu/gp08ha1115/2010/
04/04/93/
4:30
Classical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQmH
1:02
Topic
Inattentional
Blindness
Taste and
Smell
Topic
Sleep
Disorders
Length
Many
clips
13:48
60:00
1:40
Length
1:03
8:35
5:03
Brief Description
Video clips from this site provide methods for
remembering the various parts of the brain.
NOVA series on mirror neurons. Special
circuitry in our brain may help us understand
how we interact with each other and situations.
Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer.
From TED Talks.
Frontline Series: Inside the Teenage Brain
Original footage of the Bobo Doll study.
Narrated by Albert
Bandura.
The principles of operant conditioning at work
being employed during the TV show The Big
Bang Theory.
Jim classically conditioning Dwight during an
Psychology Videos
Conditioning
Topic
Clive
Wearing
Experience
vs. Memory
Super
Memory/
Study Tips
gBZhlwc
Memory
http://www.learner.org/resources/series15
0.html#
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/daniel_
kahneman_the_riddle_of_
experience_vs_memory.html
http://www.learner.org/resources/series14
2.html?pop=yes&pid=1588
Length
episode of The Office.
Brief Description
The Mind Series: Clive Wearing
20:07
9:54
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs.
memory
Rajan Mahadevan’s amazing memory. He has
the ability to recall and recite any part of pie
(3.14) From The Mind series.
Topic
Problem
Solving
Babbling
Baby
Animal
Thought
Thinking and Language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDntb
GRPeEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMdI
xKnqz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMh1
mBi3cI
Length
:30
Language
Development
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven
_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_blank_slate.
html
20:00
Steven Pinker explains how language is a blank
slate. From TED Talks.
Language
and Thought
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven
_pinker_on_language_and_thought.html
20:00
Stephen Pinker on Language and Thought.
From TED Talks.
Topic
Emotions
Length
Brief Description
Paul Ekman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nY
Zg4VnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbKd
dhq8s_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PA
W7zjgPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLL3
wtgBiFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X7fK
ZTmZa4
56:08
Conversations in History with Paul Ekman
2:13
Duke’s research on the processing of emotional
facial expressions.
Short local news story on how to detect a liar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGQf9
O61cww
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/martin
_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.h
tml
Abnormal Psychology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBplZP-vw
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/americansoldiers-turning-prescription-drugs-treatpsychological-distress/story?id=10193849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LScZ
ZOkeIs
Social Psychology
1:44
Short clip where Paul Ekman discusses lying.
23:45
Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology. From
TED Talks
Length
4:58
Brief Description
Original footage from a counseling session
with Carl Rogers
ABC News examines the growing number of
soldiers turning to perception drugs.
Recognizing
Emotions
Detecting
Emotion
Detecting
Emotion
Nonverbal
Communicati
on
Detecting
Emotions
Positive
Psychology
Topic
Humanistic
Therapy
Psychological
Distress
Schizophrenia
Topic
:26
1:02
2:46
8:23
9:33
2:35
Brief Description
A Pigeon Solves the Classic Box-and-Banana
Problem.
Funny video of a babbling baby in the backseat
of a car.
Chimp demonstrates the ability to use water to
solve a problem.
Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie
Detection.
Expert Jan Hargrave discsses the importance of
nonverbal communication and body language.
3:18
20/20 story on a virtual reality hallucinations.
Length
Brief Description
Psychology Videos
Power of the
situation
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo
_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html
23:10
Skin color
bias
Prejudice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Yni
MB51Rw
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
shows/divided/
4:00
60:00
Philip Zimbardo explains how the power of the
situation and how ordinary people can do both
good or evil. Be advised- some graphic content.
From TED Talks.
Study white and black children biased toward
lighter skin - CNN.com
Jane Elliot’s Brown Eye, Blue Eye Study
divided/