Child Development: An Active Learning Approach
Media Resources
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
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4.1 - Nature Through Nurture
This video introduces the idea that genes and the environment interact to produce a human behavior -
4.2 - The History of Research on Genetics
An animated history of the study of the human genome from Mendel to the current day. -
4.3 - Differences in Identical Twins
This video discusses the differences between identical twins that may result from more than just differences in their environment. When comparing the genomes of twins, researchers found genetic differences between the identical twins in their DNA. -
4.4 - Sickle Cell Anemia
This video describes the genetic disorder sickle cell anemia, which is the most common genetic disease in America. -
4.5 - Down Syndrome
A description of the abilities and challenges of people with Down Syndrome -
4.6 - Genetic Tests
A short explanation of the types of prenatal testing available to pregnant women to determine if there are genetic or chromosomal abnormalities present. -
4.8 - Passive Gene Environmental Interaction
A video, just for fun, showing Evel Knievel and his son Robbie jumping the fountains as Caesar's Palace, an example of passive gene environment interaction. -
4.10 - Cultural Differences
Discussion of Individualism and Collectivism as evidenced in different cultures.
Video Links
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Nature or Nurture: How Do Genes, Environment and Free Will Affect Human Behavior?
Dr. Greg Forbes discusses in detail the role of genes, environment, and free will. -
Understanding Genes
A quick video providing an example of how scientists and psychologists study the brain in terms of behavior. -
Discovering Psychology: The Developing Child
This program examines the roles of heredity and environment in child development. -
Tom & Ellie's Story - Genetic Disorders (5:08)
Video looks closely into the life of a family with a son who has inherited a rare disorder known as Cockayne Syndrome. -
Identical Twins: Pinpointing Environmental Impact on the Epigenome (4:48)
Video introduces an example of how the epigenome is influenced by environmental factors, thus changing between identical twins born with the same genes. -
The Jim Twins (10:52)
BBC Films (1999) takes us into the story of the Jim Twins, a pair of twins that grew up apart and did not meet until they were 39, yet shared so many simularities, which make raises the question nature vs. nurture. -
Gene Therapy: A New Tool to Cure Human Diseases
Video gives an introduction into what gene therapy is. -
NOVA: Personal DNA Testing
Video takes viewer through the new science of DNA testing, which can indicate an increased risk of certain disorders due inherited genetics that are unique for each individual. -
Medical Moments: Fetal Genetic Testing (3:09)
ABC News video introduces a second trimester mother in her mid-thirties and the tests she can undergo to test her unborn child for abnormalities in development. -
Genes and Environment
An overview of the interaction of genes with environmental factors, and the impact of these interactions on health. This film was made as part of the Genetics and Public Policy Center's Public Consultation on Genetics, Environment, and Health. -
Living with and Managing Sickle Cell Disease (3:48)
This video is presented by the national heart, lung, and blood institute and involves an interview with Tiffany, a women living with sickle cell anemia. It provides a look into what she deals with everyday living with the disease. -
Alcohol Genetics (1:45)
An introduction into how genetics influence how alcohol affects them in the short and long term.
Audio Links
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NPR: ‘Identical Strangers’ Explore Nature vs. Nurture
A case where identical twins were adopted out by different families and met for the first time at 35 years old. A case of "identical strangers." -
NPR: Can Genes and Brain Abnormalities Create Killers?
In light of neuroscience research on how criminals are defended in court, further research has been done on the biological differences between criminals and law-abiding citizens.