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Video Clips

Crash Course: Cognitive Psychology

Overview of cognition: knowing, remembering, understanding, communicating, and learning. Discusses the advantages and pitfalls of human cognition.

The Cognitive Revolution

How advancement in technology gave way to rethinking behaviorism, hence advent of studying psychology via cognitive science, linguistics, computer science & A.I., and neuroscience.

Embodied Cognition

An explanation of grounded cognition – how cognition can be influenced by the states of your body and the environment?

Crash Course: Psychological Research

This video describes some of the ways in which we apply the scientific method to psychological research.

Cognition: Functions and Assessment

Discussion about the basic functions of the mind and the traditional measures used by cognitive psychologists to study the mind.

Audio Clips

Limits of the Mind

In this Radiolab episode, listen to the story of Mr. S., a man with seemingly limitless memory, and visit the World Memory Championships to meet expert brain stuffers.

Brain Bugs

A discussion of how and why our brain can occasionally be unsuccessful when remembering long lists of information, adding large numbers in our heads, or making long-term decisions.

When Great Minds Think Unalike: Inside Science’s “Replication Crisis”

Examines the value of replication in empirical science and details the difficulty in replicating work on stereotypes.