DVD Color Various times 2002
(VT 9501 – VT 9504) Features prominent psychologists as they demonstrate how psychological research is a conducted. Hosted by Alan Alda. Printed material available through IMS office. See titles for descriptions. (Worth Publishers)
VT 9501 |
Disc 1 |
Modules 1
– 8 |
| VT 9502 |
Disc 2 |
Modules 9
– 16 |
| VT 9503 |
Disc 3 |
Modules 17 – 25 |
| VT 9504 |
Disc 4 |
Modules 26 – 33 |
VT 9501, Disc 1
- Tackling a Killer Disease
- Water, Water Everywhere
- Aliens Have Landed?
- Return to the Wild
- Mind Reading
- Image-Guided Surgery
- Severed Corpus Callosum
- Old Brain, New Tricks
VT 9502, Disc 2
- Smart Glasses
- Lights, Camera, Magic!
- Cockpit Confusion
- Tasters and Supertasters
- Catching Catnaps
- What’s in a Dream?
- Can You Beat Jet Lag?
- Remembering What Matters
VT 9503, Disc 3
- True or False?
- Talkin’ Babies
- If Only They Could Talk!
- Who Needs Words, Anyway?
- Born to Talk
- Bypass Genes
- Bringing Up Monkey
- Baby Body Sense
- Magic Years, The
VT 9504, Disc 4
DVD Color 9 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #1: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Focuses on the steps involved in having a new treatment or drug approved in the world of medicine. Uses as an example a child with Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and some experimental treatments. Touches on several topics related to the nature of experimentation. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 12 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #2: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of the scientific method, especially as it pertains to the importance of experimental control in research. Uses as an example the subject of dowsing for water. Touches on subject and experimenter expectancy and several issues pertaining to extra sensory perception. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #3: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of the irrationality of human thinking, especially as it pertains to social influence and obstacles to problem solving. Uses as an example the television documentary film Alien Autopsy which fanned the flames of alien fever. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #4: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Focuses on the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where tamarind monkeys who were born in zoos around the world are being taught skills that will enable their release into the wild. Supplements discussion of animal intelligence and provides an example of the interaction of genes and environment – nature and nurture – in behavior. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 9 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #5: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Focuses on the research being done on dyslexia and the development of an early detection test for infants. Contains material that pertains to several topics, including the links between biology and behavior, the methods used in studying the brain, developmental disorders, and language processing. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 13 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #6: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Illustrates how new methods of studying the brain are revolutionizing medicine and saving lives by providing a definitive treatment that was once not available. Presents the story of a person who was helped by the removal of a brain tumor thanks to a computer’s ability to process information. Some of the surgery footage is graphic. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #7: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of the structure and functions of the cerebral cortex. Features Dartmouth University’s Michael Gazzaniga, and Joe, an epileptic who had his corpus callosum severed to stop daily seizures. Cutting the corpus callosum prevented the spread of the seizures from Joe’s right hemisphere to his left, but it also prevented the two hemispheres from communicating with each other. Gazzaniga outlines his classic “split-brain” research paradigm. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9501) #8: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Focuses on neuroscientist Helen Neville’s investigation of brain processes in language. Supplements the latest research questions within the field of behavioral neuroscience. Discusses brain plasticity, developmental issues in second language learning, and the concept of critical periods in development. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 8 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #9: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Explores how perception researchers are helping blind persons by developing the equivalent of “bionic senses.” Supplements discussions of vision and visual perception and illustrates how the fields of applied psychology and artificial intelligence have tackled a major human health issue. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 13 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #10: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of visual perception, providing an example of many basic perceptual processes in film. Shows director Michael Owens and his team from Industrial Light and Magic as they create a commercial. The segment ends with a completed Nike commercial, as it appeared on the air. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #11: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Focuses on the problems caused by automation in modern jet liners as computers operate the controls, run the engines, navigate, and make the landings. Discusses these problems, and the solutions offered by human factor psychology. Supplements discussion of applied psychology, especially human factors psychology. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 14 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #12: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Visits a food festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to learn what makes chili peppers taste hot. Paul Bosland of New Mexico State University explains that the heat comes from a set of compounds called capsaicin. In nature, peppers evolved these spicy compounds to keep mammals from eating the fruits. Capsaicin is also used to relieve chronic pain. Supplements discussion of sensory processes, receptor physiology, and pain, and how scientists reason their way into important discoveries. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 12 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #13: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Follows researchers at a Boston sleep institute as they conduct an experiment to find out whether it is best to take one period of slumber or to spread it out among multiple catnaps. Supplements coverage of several content areas, including research methodology, states of consciousness, and health psychology. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 13 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #14: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Gives an overview of sleep stages and outlines the latest theories of the nature and function of dreaming. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 7 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #15: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of biological rhythms, sleep-waking cycles, and sleep disorders. Demonstrates how the brain and body adapt to changing environmental circumstances. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 9 Min 2002
(VT 9502) #16: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of memory and emotion and describes PET scan technology and brain mechanisms in information processing. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 9 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #17: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Highlights several issues in the nature of memory and describes how neuroscientists investigate brain mechanisms in complex psychological phenomena. Reviews noted memory researcher Dan Schacter’s recent PET scan studies differentiating real and false memories. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 12 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #18: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of language, including its structure, acquisition by children, and theoretical origins. Discusses the nature of language itself and whether language and speech are as intimately connected as they seem. While most linguists think babies babble to establish control over the muscles that produce speech, psychologist Laura Petitto thinks babbling has more to do with developing language ability. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #19: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of several content areas, including language and thinking, animal research, and the scientific method. Illustrates several examples of researchers who are attempting to use human language to communicate with a variety of animal species. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #20: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of several content areas, including animal intelligence, cognitive development in children, and evolutionary psychology. Illustrates a nonlinguistic approach to the study of animal intelligence through experimental procedures designed to determine whether animals can learn to reason abstractly. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 7 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #21: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Replicates several classic studies of language development in children. Touches on the nature–nurture controversy as it applies to cognitive development, differentiating the position of behaviorists like B. F. Skinner from that of Noam Chomsky, who argued for the existence of an innate language acquisition device. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 8 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #22: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of the mechanisms of heredity, the advancement of medical technology, gene therapy, and medical ethics. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #23: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of the nature–nurture issue, the relevance and ethics of animal testing, parental style, and other issues pertaining to the psychosocial development of children and the stability of personality throughout the life span. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #24: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of motor development in children and the relative importance of environmental and biological factors in development. Opens with archival footage of Myrtle McGraw and several of her landmark experiments. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9503) #25: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of cognitive development during childhood and describes the methodology and findings of recent studies of infant memory. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 12 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #26: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of cognitive development during the play years. illustrates the formation of mental sets, egocentric thinking, centered thinking, and the transition of preschool thought from limited perspective-taking to a theory of mind. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #27: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of both cognitive development and artificial intelligence and can be used to illustrate several principles of adult thought processes. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 13 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #28: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements coverage of social and cultural issues in group behavior. Shows the winners of national contests from the United States, Japan, Germany, and Great Britain as they meet in Boston for the “World Series of Engineering.” Each team has to build a machine that collects Ping-Pong balls and the winning team is the one that conveys the most balls into a hopper. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #29: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Touches on several issues that pertain to personality and social processes. Shows researchers attempting to identify the origins of leadership by observing children at play and tallying behaviors that indicate dominance. Observes that the skills that make people persuasive can also make us trust them even when they are lying. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 8 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #30: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of psychotherapy, especially as it pertains to the treatment of phobias. Focuses on a person who had a fear of heights. After going through computer-generated, three-dimensional virtual systematic desensitization, he is able to lead a normal life and use elevators, free of his phobia. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 10 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #31: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of psychotherapy and behavior modification, especially as it pertains to the treatment of phobias. Focuses on a person who had a fear of spiders so extreme that it dominated her life. After going through computer-generated, three-dimensional virtual systematic desensitization, she is able to lead a normal life, free of her phobia. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 11 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #32: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Supplements discussion of psychological disorders and how psychology can be applied to real-world problems. Focuses on a training course in which professional actors and psychologists guide the officers through the psychiatric disorders that they are likely to encounter on the job. Hosted by Alan Alda.
DVD Color 6 Min 2002
(VT 9504) #33: Scientific American Frontiers Introductory Psychology Video Collection, 2nd Edition. Provides a brief introduction to the new field of sports psychology to supplement the overview of psychology’s subfields. Touches on biofeedback and several issues pertaining to motivation and the management of arousal and stress. Hosted by Alan Alda.