Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Author Chapter Summary Video

Chapter Video

• 2.1 - Sigmund Freud
  This brief documentary includes early photos, film, and interviews with Sigmund Freud.

• 2.2 - Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
  A description of Erikson’s psychosocial stages

• 2.3 - Watson and Little Albert
  A movie of John Watson and his experiments with "Little Albert." This video includes information about how Watson believed that human beings are shaped solely by their environment.

• 2.4 - Skinner’s Pigeons
  This video shows B. F. Skinner discussing operant conditioning experiments with pigeons and their implications for human behavior.

• 2.5 - Paying Teens for Attending School
  Is money a good way to reinforce school attendance?

• 2.6 - Bandura’s Experiment
  This video shows Albert Bandura and his Bobo doll studies which investigated the origins of aggression in young children.

• 2.7 - Jean Piaget
  An overview of Piaget’s theories with David Elkind, PhD including original film clips.

• 2.8 - Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
  Discussion with examples of Vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development with application to education

• 2.9 - Lorenz and his goslings 
  This is a video Konrad Lorenz and the goslings that imprinted on him during their critical period of development. Lorenz was the first thing that these baby Geese saw upon birth, and they formed an immediate attachment with the investigator. 

Video Links

• Freud in the 21st Century: Psychoanalysis and/or Psychology
  Psychoanalysis expert Timothy L. Hulsey discusses the relationship between Freudian theory and mainstream American psychological science. The conversation includes the impact of early experiences on adult behavior and the nature of memory.

• Sigmund Freud's Child Development Theory (3:03)
  This video provides an overview of Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages by Katherine Wald, a licensed psychotherapist.

• Erikson's Stages of Identity Formation (4:52)
  This video provides an overview of Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages of development.

• Three-part documentary on Freud’s life (Part 1- 8:03, Part 2- 7: 41, Part 3 -6:06)

• Pavlov's Dogs get Conditioned (3:10)
  This video is a dramatic reenactment of Pavlov as he learns that he has classically conditioned his dogs.

• The Brain: A Secret History - Emotions; Bandura BoBo Doll Experiment (5:18)
  BBC Films introduces Bandura's study of aggression using small children. Video shows clips of the BoBo Doll experiments and their effects on children, illustrating the Social Learning Theory.

• Piaget's Stages of Development (6:18)
  Provides video clips of children demonstrating key elements within each stage of Piaget's stages of development.

• Assimilation and Accommodation (3:11)
  Video establishes the definitions of assimilation, accommodation and schema using various examples, which illustrate Piaget's cognitive developmental theory.

• Discovering Psychology: Learning
  This program discusses the basic principles of classical, instrumental, and operant conditioning according to research by Ivan Pavlov, B. F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, and John B. Watson.

• Vygotsky's Developmental Theory: An Introduction (Davidson Films) (4:02)
  Film introduces Vygotsky's developmental theory, going in detail to describe concepts such as, children construct knowledge, learning can lead development, development cannot be separated from its social context, and language plays a central role in cognitive development. It also gives a brief introduction to his life.

• Preschoolers Rough and Tumble Play (9:50)
  Video provides real-life examples of rough and tumble play, as well as current research on the importance of this play

• Brenda Milner, Neuropsychologist (12:14)  
  Offers information on the beginnings of neuropsychology and research by Penfield and Milner, with exclusive interviews of Milner herself. This can provide students with a background of neuropsychology in general.

Audio Links

• NPR: Imagine a World without Sigmund Freud
  This is a radio program in honor of Freud's 150th birthday.

• NPR: Babies and Dogs Make the Same Classic Mistakes
  Further research on the A-not-B error, identified by Piaget and now being investigated in both dogs and wolves raised by people.