Series Type: Classroom Resources

Cultural Psychology

Interview Excerpt: Hazel Markus on the Emergence of Cultural Psychology Dr. Hazel Markus explains how the inextricable factor of one’s…

Cognitive Neuroscience

Essay: Understanding Cognitive Neuroscience The experiments in this program help illustrate not only the brain’s flexibility and responsiveness, but also…

Applying Psychology in Life

Interview Excerpt: Stephen Ceci on Child Witness Credibility Research Psychologist Stephen Ceci discusses the psychological factors that must be considered…

Health, Mind, and Behavior

Essay: Holistic Medicine and the Biopsychosocial Approach Recent studies in the relationship between mind and body hint at new ideas…

Psychotherapy

Interview Excerpt: Hans Strupp on Psychodynamic Therapy Dr. Hans Strupp discusses the elements necessary from both patient and therapist for…

Psychopathology

Experiment: The Genetics of Schizophrenia Psychopathology is defined as the study of any significant behavioral or psychological syndrome that impairs…

Constructing Social Reality

Interview Excerpt: Steven Hassan on the Power of Cults and the Myths Surrounding Them Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Cult…

The Power of the Situation

Experiment: Simulating Prison Life In the early 1970s, Craig Haney, Curt Banks, Carlo Prescott, and Philip Zimbardo conducted a landmark…

Maturing and Aging

Test Yourself: Myths and Realities About Old Age As the human life span increases, the elderly make up a greater…

Sex and Gender

Experiment: Developmental Gender Study Some of the most basic differences between the sexes are revealed at a very young age.…

Testing and Intelligence

Interview Excerpt: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences Dr. Howard Gardner defines mulitiple intelligences and explains how the theory represents intelligences…

The Self

Experiment: How Self-Efficacy Affects Performance In this program, psychologists study elements that influence how we view ourselves. We’ve learned from…

The Mind Hidden and Divided

Interview Excerpt: Jonathan Schooler on Discovered Memory and False Memory Dr. Jonathan Schooler describes how the brain’s susceptibility to false…

The Mind Awake and Asleep

Essay: The Anatomy of Dreams “Sleep…knits up the raveled sleave of care.” —William Shakespeare On average, we are asleep for…

Motivation and Emotion

Interview Excerpt: Martin Seligman on Optimism and Pessimism Dr. Martin Seligman describes how attitudes of optimism and pessimism influence job…

Judgment and Decision Making

Test Yourself: Decision Making and the Availability Heuristic In this program, psychologist Daniel Kahneman conducts a study illustrating the availability…

Cognitive Processes

Interview Excerpt: Robert Glaser on Cognitive Processes Researcher Dr. Robert Glaser explains how the process of organizing knowledge in sophisticated…

Remembering and Forgetting

Essay: The Biology of Memory Memory is defined as stored information. When we take in information — a lecture, for…

Learning

Experiment: How Pigeons Learn Self Control In the study of behavior, operant behavior is affected by the environment, and operative…

Sensation and Perception

Interview Excerpt: David Hubel and the Visual Pathway Dr. David Hubel explains how cellular structures in the nervous system create…

Language Development

Interview Excerpt: Daniel Slobin on Patterns in Language Development Dr. Slobin discusses how grammatical errors offer insights into how children…

The Developing Child

Interview Excerpt: Judy Deloache on Symbolic Reasoning Researcher Judy Deloache describes how children’s recognition of scale models as representations reflects…

The Responsive Brain

Experiment: The African Cichlid Fish Dr. Russell Fernald is a neuroethologist at Stanford University. Neuroethology integrates brain science with the…

Understanding Research

Essay: Research in Action Research often begins with a question. Traditionally, answers have been found in lab experiments, surveys, test…

Past, Present, and Promise

Experiment: Tracking Racial Bias Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes.…

Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition

A video instructional series on introductory psychology for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 26 half-hour video programs …

Contemporary History

The Sixties

Professor Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create…

The Fifties

World War II

FDR and the Depression

The Twenties

A Vital Progressivism

TR and Wilson

Capital and Labor

The New City

Industrial Supremacy

America at Its Centennial

Reconstruction

The Civil War

A Biography of America

A video instructional series on American history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 26 half-hour video programs,…

Exchange Rates (International)

By 1925 Great Britain went off the gold standard, managing to increase exports and lessen imports. The U.S. market was…

International Trade (International)

The U.S. auto industry lost a lot of mileage in 1973 with the rise of the more efficient Japanese imports.…

Stabilization Policy (Macroeconomics)

Between 1982 and 1985, the Fed tightened the money supply to combat inflation, despite rising unemployment. Also in the 1980s,…

Monetary Policy (Macroeconomics)

Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker pushed us through two deep recessions using monetary policy and increased interest rates to combat…

Federal Deficits (Macroeconomics)

During WWII, our national debt had more than quadrupled, so government encouraged citizens to buy war bonds and federal stamps…

Productivity (Macroeconomics)

In the 1970s, businesses struggled with rising energy costs, newly imposed environmental regulations, and inflation that contributed to the slowing…

The Federal Reserve (Macroeconomics)

The Federal Reserve was originally created in 1913 as an emergency lender to banks–a sort of bank of last resort.…

The Banking System (Macroeconomics)

The Knickerbocker Bank’s failure led to the Bank Panic of 1907, and ultimately inspired a need for a central bank.…

Inflation (Macroeconomics)

In the 1960s President Lyndon Baines Johnson continued fueling the domestic agenda of his “Great Society,” keeping a low profile…

Fiscal Policy (Macroeconomics)

In 1954 relying on “automatic stabilizers,” President Dwight Eisenhower withheld raising taxes in order to encourage consumer spending. In the…

The Great Depression and the Keynsian Revolution (Macroeconomics)

In 1932 President Herbert Hoover spoke enthusiastically about financial recovery while John Maynard Keynes expressed doubts. Keynes published The General…

Boom and Bust (Macroeconomics)

The nation’s cycles of economic booms and busts were considered intrinsically capitalistic by Joseph Schumpeter who called them “methodic economic…

GNP/GDP (Macroeconomics)

In 1929 following the stock market bottoming out, Simon Kuznets led an investigative study resulting in the first national data…

Resources and Scarcity (Macroeconomics)

Faced with dwindling resources, Congress fiercely debated whether to preserve 100 million acres of Alaskan land as a national park,…

Public Goods and Responsibility (Microeconomics)

In 1937 the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a government-owned utility company, was created to electrify rural communities and control flooding.…

Economic Growth (Microeconomics)

By 1916 Henry Ford’s assembly line had lowered the price of the Model T to $360, making it affordable and…

Reducing Poverty (Microeconomics)

After the Great Depression President Franklin D. Roosevelt put forth a social security program, using money from employer/employee wages. In…

Profits and Interest (Microeconomics)

In response to rising interest rates in the 1970s, the Maryland legislature raised usury ceilings so that more home loans…

Labor and Management (Microeconomics)

The International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) strike in the early 1900s was inspired by poor working conditions and low…

Pollution and the Environment (Microeconomics)

In 1977, the federal court system told the Reserve Mining Company to build a $400 million disposal site for carcinogenic…

Oligopolies (Microeconomics)

Competition with General Motors eventually rendered Ford’s single-option Model-T obsolete. In 1959, a reporter for the Knoxville News-Sentinel discovered a…

Monopoly (Microeconomics)

In 1890, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act broke up the monopoly that John D. Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil, had…

Economic Efficiency (Microeconomics)

In preparation for WWII, the Roosevelt administration instituted wage price and price controls to curb inflation and better focus production…

Perfect Competition/Inelastic Demand (Microeconomics)

Farmers lured into producing massive food surpluses for WWI could no longer profit when the war ended and demand plummeted.…

Supply and Demand (Microeconomics)

A two-year drought in California in the 1970s motivated areas such as Marin County to conserve by reducing their water…

The Firm (Microeconomics)

In 1980, renowned soda company Coca-Cola replaced sugar with high-fructose corn extract in order to lower production costs. In 1963,…

Markets (Microeconomics)

The return of U.S. troops from overseas following World War II created a massive demand for cheap housing. Rising labor…

Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition

A video instructional series on micro- and macroeconomics for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 28 half-hour video…

Risk, Reward, Responsibility: Ethics in Business

The numbers are in, and executives at Casablanca Cruise Lines (CCL) discover that the company can save as much as…

A Better Brain: The Ethics of Neuro-Enhancement

As our story begins, Maria, a teacher, sits at a school assembly, where a graduate who now works at Hype…

Choosing Justice: Elections and Judicial Independence

John Fairfield, a former prosecutor and respected state trial judge, is thinking of pursuing a lifelong dream: a seat on…

My Brother’s Keeper

Your son has always struggled with his writing. Now, he is up against a college application deadline, has a bad…

War Stories: National Security & the News

Four years ago, a coalition led by American forces invaded the Central Asian nation of Khaoistan, where warlords had destroyed…

Three Farewells: Medicine & the End of Life

“Three Farewells” looks at the difficult and sometimes heart-rending choices a loving family makes as they confront the end of…

Ethics in America II

A video series for middle school, high school, and adult learners; 6 one-hour video programs, downloadable discussion guide and Ethics…

An Ounce of Prevention

Psychotherapies

Behavior Disorders of Childhood

Organic Mental Disorders

The Schizophrenias

Mood Disorders

Sexual Disorders

Substance Abuse Disorders

Personality Disorders

Psychological Factors and Physical Illness

The Anxiety Disorders

The Nature of Stress

Looking at Abnormal Behavior

The World of Abnormal Psychology

A video instructional series for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 13 one-hour video programs and coordinated books.…

Neurorehabilitation

Brain Transplants in Parkinson’s Patients

Understanding the Brain Through Epilepsy

Autism

Schizophrenia: Pharmacological Treatment

Schizophrenia: Etiology

Schizophrenia: Symptoms

Frontal Lobes and Behavior: The Story of Phineas Gage

Aggression, Violence, and the Brain

Multiple Personality

Stress: Locus of Control and Predictability

Emotions, Stress, and Health

A Super-Memorist Advises on Study Strategies

Alzheimer’s Disease

Living With Amnesia: The Hippocampus and Memory

Learning As Synaptic Change

The Locus of Learning and Memory

REM Sleep and Dreaming

Sleep: Brain Functions

Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Huntington’s Disease

Sensory-Motor Integration

Perception: Inverted Vision

Visual Information Processing: Perception

Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts

Brain Anomaly and Plasticity: Hydrocephalus

Language and Speech: Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas

The Divided Brain

Intelligence and Culture

Gender Development: Social Influences

The Effects of Hormones and the Environment on Brain Development

Organization and Evaluation of Brain Function

The Brain: Teaching Modules

Video teaching modules for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 32 video modules (from 5 to 20 minutes…

Politics, Privacy, and the Press

The Human Experiment

Truth on Trial

Under Orders, Under Fire (Part II)

Under Orders, Under Fire (Part I)

Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover

Does Doctor Know Best?

Public Trust, Private Interests

To Defend a Killer

Do Unto Others

Ethics in America

A video instructional series on ethics for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 10 one-hour video programs. This…

Federalism

Affirmative Action Versus Reverse Discrimination

Immigration Reform

Right To Live, Right To Die

School Prayer, Gun Control, and the Right To Assemble

National Security and Freedom of the Press

Campaign Spending

Crime and Punishments

Crime and Insanity

Criminal Justice and a Defendant’s Right to a Fair Trial

Nomination, Election, and Succession of the President

War Powers and Covert Action

Executive Privilege and Delegation of Powers

The Constitution: That Delicate Balance

A video instructional series on the American Constitution for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 13 one-hour video…