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Video 1: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality.
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Cambridge research professor Brian Little analyzes and redefines the threads of our personalities. This talk was presented at an official TED conference.
 

Video 2: The Science of Personality
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 2
Summary: Featuring the foremost minds in personality psychology and business, The Science of Personality explores what personality is, how it affects our lives and the lives of those around us, and the impact of personality psychology and assessment on leadership and organizational success.
 

Video 3: The psychology of your future self with Dan Gilbert
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 3
Summary: Are you the same person you were ten years ago? Probably not! What about the future – in ten years will you have the same friends, interests and commitments that you have today? While most people would answer YES to this question, Dan Gilbert says the reality is something different.
 

Audio 1: Neuroscience of Personality.
Learning Objective: LO 2 & 3
Summary:  In this episode Joel and Antonia interview Dr. Dario Nardi about his brain scan research into personality type he’s called the Neuroscience of Personality.
 

Audio 2:  Personality and Impulsivity in Parkinson's
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 2
Summary: Dr Fahd Baig discusses his latest research in personality disorders and impulsivity with those affected with Parkinson's

Audio 3: Personality Disorders in the DSM-5
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Dr. Thomas Widiger is a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Widiger's research interests include the diagnosis and classification of psychopathology, the dimensional models of personality disorder, and the validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, or DSM-IV.
 

Website 1: American Psychological Association
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2, 3
Summary: Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.
 

Website 2: The Encyclopedia of Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2, 3
Summary: Founded in 1997 by Dr. William Palya, the vision for Psychology.org was to both centralize the best online psychology resources and publish original, innovative psychology scholarship.
 

Website 3: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Summary: Provides a summary of the more prominent theoretical approaches to the study of personality.

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Video 1: Stanford University's "Marshmallow Experiment"
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Summary: If they could delay gratification by sitting in a room alone with one marshmallow until the facilitator got back, they would be rewarded with an additional marshmallow. If they cracked, succumbed to temptation by eating the marshmallow before she returned, they would not be rewarded with an additional one.
 

Video 2: Celebrating Ignorance
Learning Objective: LO 1, 3
Summary: Stuart Firestein begins with an ancient proverb, “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat.” Firestein, the chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, thinks that this is a good metaphor for science.
 

Video 3: Applying the Scientific Method
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: This video provides a real-life example of the scientific method: testing hypotheses about which plants will grow most successfully on a green roof in Kentucky.
 

Audio 1: Reinventing the Scientific Method
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Summary:  A Techwise Conversation with the author of a new book, Reinventing Discovery
 

Audio 2: Invisibilia: Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are?
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Mischel, like pretty much every other psychologist at the time, had some basic assumptions about personality. The first was that people had different personalities, and that those personalities could be defined by certain traits, such as extroversion, conscientiousness, sociability.
 

Audio 3: Unraveling the Mysteries of Personality and Well-Being with Dr. Brian Little
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Who am I? Am I just a product of nature and/or nurture? What does it mean to live a life of meaning and happiness? On this episode of the psychology podcast, Dr. Brian Little helps us explore these existentially significant questions.
 

Website 1: Microsoft Academic
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Domains and Facets: Hierarchical Personality Assessment Using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory from the Journal of Personality Assessment
 

Website 2: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: SPPS is a unique short reports journal in social and personality psychology. Its aim is to publish cutting-edge brief reports of single studies, or very succinct reports of multiple studies, and will be geared toward a speedy review and publication process to allow groundbreaking research to be quickly available to the field.
 

Website 3: The Personality Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: One of the missions of our laboratory has been to develop, expand and promote a new unified vision of personality psychology, loosely described under the label, "The Systems Framework for Personality"

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Video 1: Overview of Qualitative Research Methods
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Walden's Center for Research Quality serves the university community by supporting high standards in ethics, scientific rigor, and the dissemination of knowledge. The focus in this video is qualitative research methods.
 

Video 2: Psychological Research - Crash Course Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Hank talks about case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys and interviews, and experimentation. Also he covers different kinds of bias in experimentation and how research practices help us avoid them.
 

Video 3: Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students.
 

Audio 1: Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 1)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The Workshop in Comparative Methods took place at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy on 12-14 January 2012; it provided an overview of and introduction into various comparative methods.
 

Audio 2: Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 2)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The Workshop in Comparative Methods took place at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy on 12-14 January 2012; it provided an overview of and introduction into various comparative methods.
 

Audio 3: Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focusing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest.
 

Website 1: The Web Center for Social Research Methods
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. This site provides a good amount of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.
 

Website 2: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: The aim of the site is to write engaging and informative articles in an academic style, but still clear and simple enough to be understood by psychology students of all educational levels.
 

Website 3: AllPsych
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: AllPsych is one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites, referenced by hundreds of colleges and universities around the world.

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Video 1: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory on Instincts, Motivation, Personality & Development
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Learn how Sigmund Freud's theories helped shape our modern understanding of human motivation and personality development.
 

Video 2: Exploring the Two Cultures
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Larry Squire: ‘Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain’ Distinguished Professor Larry Squire (UCSD), whose pioneering work established the distinction between conscious and unconscious memory, discusses the structure and organization of memory. Simon Kemp: 'Unconscious Memory from Proust to the Present' Dr. Simon Kemp (Somerville, Oxford), explores how memory and the unconscious intertwine.

Video 3: Foundations: Freud
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: This lecture introduces students to the theories of Sigmund Freud, including a brief biographical description and his contributions to the field of psychology. The limitations of his theories of psychoanalysis are covered in detail, as well as the ways in which his conception of the unconscious mind still operate in mainstream psychology today.
 

Audio 1: Letters from Vienna - Freud's correspondence with Pastor Oskar Pfister
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Sacred Psychoanalysis: the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary psychoanalysis. Delivered by Dr. Alistair Ross.
 

Audio 2: Freud's Impossible Life
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Renowned psychologist, literary critic and essayist Adam Phillips delivers a public lecture at Wolfson College on his work on 'Freud's Impossible Life'. The lecture is introduced by the College President, Hermione Lee.
 

Audio 3: Freud on Sexuality and Civilization
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Freud's brand of critical theory adds important dimensions; he argues that we can better understand our consciousness through the process of psychoanalysis--the talking cure, dream work, etc--and we can cure ourselves through this process as well.
 

Website 1: The Chicago Institute For Psychoanalysis
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Summary: The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1932. Thier mission is to provide professional training in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and to enhance psychodynamic study through research and scholarship.
 

Website 2: Psychoanalytic Research Consortium
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The Psychoanalytic Research Consortium (PRC) is a not-for-profit organization of researchers promoting basic psychoanalytic research, primarily through the use of our library of audiotape recorded sessions of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy. We are primarily interested in exploring the relationships between the processes of psychoanalytic work and the benefit to the patient, particularly long-term benefit.
 

Website 3: Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The Columbia Psychoanalytic Center approaches the study of psychoanalytic theory and technique according to the university model. We are neither a trade school nor a seminary. Our goal is to investigate psychoanalysis from numerous angles, teaching the broadest diversity of theoretical models in depth and encouraging our candidates to think creatively and rigorously about their work.

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Video 1: The Postmodern Psyche
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,6
Summary: Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Slavoj Žižek. The notion of the "postmodern" is defined through the use of examples in the visual arts and architecture. Deleuze and Guattari's theory of "rhizomatic" thinking and their intellectual debts are elucidated. Žižek's film criticism, focused on the relation between desire and need, is explored in connection with Lacan.
 

Video 2: Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,6
Summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century. It’s 100 years since Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, a term which he coined, published The Interpretation of Dreams. Sixty years after his death, Freud’s influence and the influence of that book, has been felt in the 20th century in everything from the arts, history and anthropology, to of course psychology and even science.
 

Video 3: Beyond Instinct and Intellect: Modern Psychoanalysis | The New School
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,
Summary: Donna Orange, author of "Emotional Understanding" and "Thinking for Clinicians," and George Hagman, author of "Aesthetic Experience: Beauty, Creativity," debate the future of psychoanalysis. They ask whether or not a cross-disciplinary approach is possible in approaching psychotherapy.
 

Audio 1: Psychoanalysis: a contemporary treatment?
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,6
Summary: With limited health resources and pressure for the quick fix for mental illness, could psychoanalysis actually be an adjunct treatment for trauma and serious disorders option when combined with modern neuroscience—could it be a treatment for our times?
 

Audio 2: Does psychoanalysis have a role in modern mental health care?
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,6
Summary: Since Freudian times, psychoanalytical thinking has been highly influential across the fields of psychiatry, psychology and even art and film—but as a mode of treating mental illness it's often been criticized. Dr Timothy Keogh, Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Australian Psychoanalytical Society argues psychoanalysis should it be a treatment for our times.

Audio 3: The talking cure: psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy.
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,5
Summary: Well-known US psychotherapist Irvin Yalom believes that we all have a natural fear of death and coming to terms with that fear is the key to a fulfilling life. What is psychotherapy, though? And is it effective and affordable in contemporary society?
 

Website 1: Psychology Today
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action. A roundup of psychoanalytic points of view, by The Contemporary Psychoanalysis Group.
 

Website 2: Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Under the guidance of Phyllis W. Meadow, the Center, in cooperation with other psychoanalytic training institutes, developed the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts. As a founding member institute, the Center has been active in establishing and clarifying standards of modern psychoanalytic education.
 

Website 3: The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Founded in 1971, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) is one of the oldest and most respected not-for-profit mental health training and treatment facilities in New York City.

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Video 1: Foundations: Skinner
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,6
Summary: This lecture introduces students to the theory of Behaviorism, particularly the work of prominent behaviorist, B. F. Skinner. Different types of learning are discussed in detail, as well as reasons why behaviorism has been largely displaced as an adequate theory of human mental life.
 

Video 2: How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,6
Summary: One of the most uniquely human abilities is the capacity for creating and understanding language. This lecture introduces students to the major topics within the study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and recursion. This lecture also describes theories of language acquisition, arguments for the specialization of language, and the commonalities observed in different languages across cultures.
 

Video 3: B. F. Skinner and his work.
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: A collection of videos from the B.F. Skinner Foundation archives.
 

Audio 1: BF Skinner and Superstition in the Pigeon
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series which examines the work of the people who have changed our understanding of the human mind. This week she explores the legacy of BF Skinner and Behaviourism. One of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century, by applying to human learning the theory he developed through animal studies, he became one of the most controversial.
 

Audio 2: The Bobo Doll
Learning Objective: LO 3,4
Summary:  Claudia Hammond revisits the first experiment to broach the subject of how children respond to TV and computer game violence. Albert Bandura's ground-breaking Bobo Doll experiment in 1961 first alerted the world to the dangers of imitative behaviour.
 

Audio 3: World War I and the birth of behaviourism
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Dr. John Carmody, a physiologist and historian from the University of Sydney, talks about the history of behaviourism and how it was used to manipulate the population to gain support for the war and young men to join the fighting in the battlefields of World War I.

Website 1: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The purpose of the site is to write engaging and informative articles in an academic style, but still clear and simple enough to be understood by psychology students of all educational levels.
 

Website 2: PSI CHI, The International Honor Society in Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4,5
Summary: Offers a quarterly, peer-reviewed Journal that is uniquely dedicated to educating and promoting professional development of our student and faculty authors. To enhance the visibility of research across the psychological community, Psi Chi Journal is now indexed in PsycINFO and EBSCO databases. All articles are free to members and nonmembers alike.
 

Website 3: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Learning Objective: Lo 1,8
Summary: NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

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Video 1: Why Are People Different?: Differences
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5
Summary: This lecture addresses this question by reviewing the latest theories and research in psychology on two traits in particular: personality and intelligence.
 

Video 2: Trait Perspective: Theory & Definition
Learning Objective: LO 1,3
Summary: Psychologists typically define personality as your characteristic patterns of thinking and behavior. The trait perspective of personality explores your personality traits and how many traits you have.
 

Video 3: Personality (Trait Theories)
Learning Objective: LO 1,3
Summary: Lecture from the University of California, Berkeley; which is considered the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation.
 

Audio 1: Professor Mel West - Origins & History of Trait Theory
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2,3,4
Summary: Lecture covering Origins & History of Trait Theory by Professor Mel West; University of Manchester. His work has principally been in the fields of school management and school improvement. In the mid-nineteen eighties, he was one of the architects of the influential Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA) program.
 

Audio 2: Pathological Demand Avoidance, Is wisdom a trait or a state?
Learning Objective: LO 1,5
Summary: Is there such a thing as a wise person or does wisdom all depend on the situation? It appears as though some people have more of it than others. But new research suggests it might not be quite like that. Psychologist Igor Grossman of the University of Waterloo assessed the wisdom of individuals in their real lives, rather than in a lab and found some intriguing results.
 

Audio 3: A Person in the World of People: Self and Other
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Students will learn about several important factors influencing how we form impressions of others, including our ability to form rapid impressions about people.
 

Website 1: Verywell
Learning Objective: LO 1,5
Summary: Verywell provides articles are not only written by experienced doctors, therapists, nurses, and other experts, but vetted for accuracy by board-certified physicians and experts in the field.
 

Website 2: The Association for Psychological Science
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Website 3: Psych Central
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Five broad clusters of traits used to model and evaluate people’s personalities: Openness (sometimes referred to as “Intellect”), Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (OCEAN).

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Video 1: Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,4
Summary: The majority of this lecture is spent on introducing students to major theories and discoveries in the fields of perception, attention and memory. Topics include why we see certain visual illusions, why we don't always see everything we think we see, and the relationship between different types of memory.
 

Video 2: Kafka's Cognitive Realism
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,7
Summary: A discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's "Kafka's Cognitive Realism", which uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. Commentators from English, Psychology and Modern Languages bring insights from a variety of perspectives.
 

Video 3: Experiencing Language
Learning Objective: LO 4,5,6
Summary: Has language altered human emotions? We discuss and develop recent proposals that an important precondition for the evolution of human language was the evolution of social emotions in pre-linguistic humans. We suggest that as language evolved, it altered important aspects of human emotionality, leading to a co-evolutionary feedback between human linguistic ability and human emotions.
 

Audio 1: What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
Learning Objective: LO 4,5
Summary: This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children and the way they learn about the world in order to formulate his theories of cognitive development. This is followed by an introduction to the modern science of infant cognition.
 

Audio 2: Cognitive Psychology - Testosterone and City Traders - Suicide Bombers
Learning Objective: LO 2,3,5
Summary: Claudia Hammond talks to Dr. Itiel Dror, cognitive neuroscientist, whose groundbreaking studies first drew attention to the fact that individual forensic examiners can be swayed by context and affected by bias.
 

Audio 3: Personality predictors of intelligence
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,4
Summary: A study from the US suggests that personality predictors of intelligence change from younger to older adulthood and that disagreeableness is linked to higher intelligence in older people.
 

Website 1: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Provides historical overview and theoretical summary explaining how cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology.
 

Website 2: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: The purpose of the site is to write engaging and informative articles in an academic style, but still clear and simple enough to be understood by psychology students of all educational levels.
 

Website 3: The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: The Association for Psychological Science was founded in 1988 by a group of scientifically oriented psychologists interested in advancing scientific psychology and its representation as a science at the national level.

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Video 1: The Good Life: Happiness
Learning Objective: LO 1,5
Summary: Professor Bloom ends with a review of one of the most interesting research topics in "positive psychology," happiness. What makes us happy? How does happiness vary across person and culture? What is happiness for? Students will hear how the most recent research in psychology attempts to answer these questions and learn how people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest.
 

Video 2: Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Therapy
Learning Objective: LO 5,7
Summary: The founder of the person-centered approach reflects on his major contributions and explores his provocative opinions on psychotherapy, education, and social change.
 

Video 3: Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy
Learning Objective: LO 1,3,5,7
Summary: Martin Seligman shows how to apply the principles of positive psychology to the practice of psychotherapy.
 

Audio 1: Person Centered Therapy
Learning Objective: LO 1,3
Summary: Explains Carl Rogers and his person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and counseling (client-centered therapy), education (student-centered learning), organizations, and other group settings.
 

Audio 2: In Our Time: Philosophy. BBC Radio
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss existentialism. A twentieth century philosophy of everyday life concerned with the individual, and his or her place within the world. As Roquentin says in Sartre’s novel ‘Nausea’, “To exist is simply to be there; what exists appears, lets itself be encountered, but you can never deduce it”.But where did these ideas come from? What do they really mean? And how have they impacted on our lives? With Dr A. C. Grayling, Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London; Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, fellow of Wadham College; Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex and author of A Companion to Continental Philosophy.
 

Audio 3: Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Learning Objective: LO 1,3
Summary: Examines the work of Abraham Maslow, who in the mid-twentieth century developed a theory of human motivation that has been particularly influential in management.
 

Website 1: Psychotherapy.net
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4,5
Summary: Since 1995 they have been producing and distributing the highest quality training videos in the field of psychotherapy, and we think you will find these to be incredibly useful in learning the subtle art of doing psychotherapy. Additionally, we publish Articles, Interviews, Blogs, and Cartoons (all free of charge) that will allow you to dig deep into your particular areas of interest. We strive to keep our writing fresh, and down-to-earth, honestly sharing the actual experience of what it is like to be a therapist in the trenches.
 

Website 2: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4,5
Summary: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
 

Website 3: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4,5
Summary: The purpose of the site is to write engaging and informative articles in an academic style, but still clear and simple enough to be understood by psychology students of all educational levels.

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Video 1: What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children and the way they learn about the world in order to formulate his theories of cognitive development. This is followed by an introduction to the modern science of infant cognition. Finally, the question of the relationship between and the existence of different kinds of development is addressed.
 

Video 2: Development (Piaget)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Lecture from UC Berkley on Piaget’s stages of cognitive development.
 

Video 3:  Cognitive Development in Early Childhood (Davidson Films, Inc.)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform the newborn into the actively curious, exploring kindergartner. This film examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities and differences of their contributions to our understanding of the cognitive development of young children. Dr. Elkind uses their research and his own work to look at three aspects of intellectual growth: reasoning, visual perception, and language use. Children are seen both in interview situations and busily participating in an accredited child care center to illustrate Dr. Elkind's points about their ever-changing intellectual abilities.
 

Audio 1: Playing lots makes for good language skills (Cognitive development series)
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: National University, Evan Kidd, explaining how children who have imaginary companions have improved language skills, in comparison with children who don't.
 

Audio 2: Jean Piaget – The Three Mountains
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Three Mountains - from this experiment Piaget concluded that, because young children could not imagine what someone on the other side of the mountain model from the side they were standing could see, they were incapable of empathy. Subsequent experiments allowing children to imagine different social, rather than spatial, situations have had very different results. Claudia Hammond asks how far we should rely on Piaget's findings today.
 

Audio 3: Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, from the Birkbeck Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development in London talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her Life Scientific. Her research has been cited not just by fellow psychologists, but by philosophers, linguists, educationalists, geneticists and neuroscientists. Her controversial response to guidance issued by the American Academy of Paediatrics, that parents should discourage TV viewing in children under two, is that if the subject matter is chosen well, and is scientifically based, a TV screen can be better for a baby than a book.
 

Website 1: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Piaget's (1936) theory of cognitive development is about how a child constructs a mental model of the world. Piaget was employed at the Binet Institute in the 1920s, where his job was to develop French versions of questions on English intelligence tests.
 

Website 2: The Work of Lev Vygotsky
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Psychologist Lev Vygotsky 's theory of cognitive development posits that information from the external world is transformed and internalized through language.  Since language is both a symbolic system of communication and a cultural tool used to transmit culture and history, play is an essential part of both language development and a child's understanding of the external world. 
 

Website 3: Differences between Piaget & Vygotsky's Cognitive Development Theories
Learning Objective: LO 1,3
Summary: Vygotsky and Piaget have similarities between their two theories of cognitive development. There are also several differences.

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Video 1: The Urgency of Intersectionality
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
 

Video 2: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny, practical case for treating men and women equally in the workplace and at home. It's not a zero-sum game, but a win-win that will result in more opportunity and more happiness for everybody.
 

Video 3: Experiment: Developmental Gender Study
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Some of the most basic differences between the sexes are revealed at a very young age. These findings raise a central question: Are gender differences and behaviors learned or innate? Developmental neuroscientist Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University studied the gender roles and talks about his findings.
 

Audio 1: Young People Push Back Against Gender Categories
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: As society has become more accepting of gays, lesbians and transgender people, a new generation of young people is challenging those categories in favor of a more fluid understanding of gender. They refuse to be limited by notions like male and female. NPR's Margot Adler reports on the call for less stringent categorization for gender identities.
 

Audio 2: Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Center for Race & Gender. Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities
 

Audio 3: Media Talk podcast: mind the gender gap
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Media Guardian: Jane Martinson and guests perform a gender test on the entire media industry.
 

Website 1: Association for Psychological Science.
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Website 2: ScienceDaily
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world.

Website 3: The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector works towards providing strong role models for women and girls in science throughout the world, building capacities of women in STEM, as well as supporting and promoting the contributions of women to scientific knowledge generation and dissemination to advance sustainable development.

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Video 1: TED Talk: Strange answers to the psychopath test
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)
 

Video 2: TED Talk: The high price of criminalizing mental illness
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
 

Video 3: A tale of mental illness — from the inside
Learning Objective: LO 3,5,6
Summary: A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.
 

Audio 1: BBC: On the Borderline
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,5
Summary: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most controversial mental health diagnoses and yet it's by no means uncommon. Clare Allan, award-winning novelist and Guardian columnist, says she was given the diagnosis as a "parting gift" when, after 18 months in psychiatric day hospital, she had failed to respond to treatment.
 

Audio 2: The Moral Maze: Selfie Culture
Learning Objective: LO 3,4,5
Summary: Is the craze for selfies just a harmless piece of fun or are we gradually being infected with a narcissistic personality disorder? Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Anne McElvoy and Claire Fox. Witnesses are Madeleine Bunting, Jane Finnis, James Temperton and Justine Hardy.
 

Audio 3:  Yale University in Conversation Talks on Borderline Personality Disorder & Recovery: Myths of BPD
Learning Objective: LO 1,4,5
Summary: Amanda R. Wang, Founder of RethinkBPD, interviews leading BPD voices and experts in honor of May BPD Awareness Month. This podcast series is a collaboration of www.rethinkbpd.org, www.neabbpd.org, and the medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry YIELD program.
 

Website 1: PsychologyOne: Personality Disorders
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4
Summary: Founded in 2011, Psychology One is a not-for-profit website certified by the prestigious Health on the Net Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
 

Website 2: The Mayo Clinic
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: Mayo Clinic School of Medicine is one of the 11 top medical schools in the nation chosen to lead the national transformation of medical training through the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.

Website 3: PsychCentral
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4
Summary: Psych Central is the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health social network. Since 1995, its award-winning website has been run by mental health professionals offering reliable, trusted information and over 250 support groups to consumers.

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Video 1: Child bereavement: 'Self-harming was my idea of coping'
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4
Summary: BBC Video- Kayleigh Chandler talks about getting her life back on track and how Child Bereavement UK helped her after her little sister died six years ago.
 

Video 2: BBC News: The lifeline for dads coping with the loss of a child
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: When toddler TJ Scully-Sloan died suddenly, his mum and siblings were offered support and a shoulder to cry on. But his dad was asked how he was feeling just once, by an undertaker. The experience led to him setting up a group to help fathers address a question no-one wants to have to answer - how do you cope after the death of a child?
 

Video 3: Coping Without Kira
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,5
Summary: Deals with coping with complex life-change events. Kira is an 18 year old Gloucester teenager who has just got her A level grades. The only girl from her school to be offered a place at Cambridge University, Kira is meant to be off to read history at the end of September. But she is a caregiver for Rachel, her mum. Rachel is bipolar, diabetic and arthritic. Virtually bedroom bound, she is heavily dependent upon Kira. Although hugely proud of her daughter, Rachel is not sure how she will cope if her daughter leaves. Kira is keen for a new start. Perceived to be the poor kid at school, her teenage years were not particularly happy. And caring each evening for her mum, means parties, sleepovers and teenage freedoms have somewhat passed her by. But Kira is consumed by worry and guilt. Can she find a way to leave her mother and if she did, would she actually enjoy life as a Cambridge undergraduate?
 

Audio 1: Health Shots from NPR: A Coping Plan Can Help Fend Off Depression From Vision Loss
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,4
Summary: Research suggests about 25 percent of people with macular degeneration in both eyes go on to develop clinical depression. So Rovner decided to test a style of psychological therapy called behavior activation. This treatment helps give patients strategies to build on whatever functional vision they have so they can continue their day-to-day activities and carry on an active social life. Rovner wanted to see if the approach would help people with macular degeneration ward off depression.
 

Audio 2: Coping With Loss Amid Holiday Cheer
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,4
Summary: The holidays can be difficult if you've lost a loved one through suicide. Guest host Celeste Headlee gets tips for coping. She hears from Eric Marcus of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, whose father and sister-in-law took their own lives and psychiatrist Christine Moutier.
 

Audio 3: Care Casters Network , United Kingdom: Coping strategies dealing with anxiety
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,5
Summary: Care Casters, Dave talks about anxiety as experienced by many family carers, and his coping strategies for dealing with them.
 

Website 1: Psychology Today
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Adjustment disorder is an abnormal and excessive reaction to an identifiable life stressor. The reaction is more severe than would normally be expected and can result in significant impairment in social, occupational, or academic functioning. Symptoms must arise within three months of the onset of the stressor and last no longer than six months after the stressor has ended.
 

Website 2: American Psychological Association
Learning Objective:  LO 1,2,3,4,5
Summary: APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 117,500 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.
 

Website 3: The Encyclopedia of Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3,4
Summary: The Encyclopedia of Psychology is where we record and analyze the evolution of the field.

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Video 1: Can Computers Have Personalities?
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Robots may be a long way from artificial intelligence, but can they have personalities?
 

Video 2: What Makes Me?
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: How the brain gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, our memories and personality.

Video 3: The Neuroscience of Consciousness, University of Melbourne
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Specialising in the physiology of the brain, Susan researches the impact of 21st century technologies on the mind, how the brain generates consciousness and novel approaches to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
 

Audio 1: BBC Reith Lectures, Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: In his final Reith Lecture, Professor Ramachandran argues that neuroscience, perhaps more than any other discipline, is capable of transforming man's understanding of himself and his place in the cosmos.
 

Audio 2: Harvard University: Talking Machines
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: A talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work which touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning. Ryan Introduces us to active learning and we take a question on evolutionary algorithms.
 

Audio 3: University of Cambridge: Brain, body and mind: new directions in the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: How conscious is my dog? Can robots become conscious? Are people in a vegetative state conscious? Philosopher Professor Tim Crane and neuroscientist Dr. Srivas Chennu look into our minds and wrestle with the meaning of what it is to be conscious.
 

Website 1: Psychology Today, Neuroscience-Essential Reads
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Understanding the balance between neural excitation and inhibition could be key to understanding many brain disorders.
 

Website 2: Psych Central
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Psych Central is the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health social network. Since 1995, our award-winning website has been run by mental health professionals offering reliable, trusted information and over 250 support groups to consumers.
 

Website 3: Neuroscience News
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: A science website dedicated strictly to neuroscience research news. To this day, the site is an independent science news website focusing mainly on neuroscience and other cognitive sciences.