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Psychology Videos, 16 mm Films & Sound Recordings
Landmarks in Psychology (1980)
Human Relations Media, inc.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (VHS) (53 min.) + 1 teacher's guide.
CONTENTS pt. 1. Origins -- pt. 2. Views of man -- pt. 3. Views of man.
SUMMARY Focuses on the impact of important psychological discoveries. Discusses the findings of Freud, Pavlov, and Skinner. Explains basic psychological terms; illustrates research techniques; and explores different schools of psychology, presenting the theories of Horney, Sullivan, Maslow.
SUBJECTS Psychology.
SUBJECTS Psychology -- Research.
Media Video BF131 .L3 1980
Language Development (1973)
Peter Jordan.
DESCRIPTION 16mm film reel (20 min.).
SUMMARY This program explains that the acquisition of language is a complex, intellectual task performed before 5 years of age without prior experience with language. The program notes that all children learn their native language via the same sequence of language acquisition and at approximately the same age.
SUBJECTS Psycholinguistics.
SUBJECTS Children -- Language.
SUBJECTS Learning, Psychology of.
Media Film B-11,605
Learning (1971)
CRM Educational Films.
DESCRIPTION 16mm reel (30 min.) + guide.
SUMMARY Dr. Jack Hailman demonstrates species specific behavior, sign stimulus, and supernormal stimulus. Dr. Eckhard Hess has been experimenting with critical, or imprinting period. Dr. Lewis Lipsitt demonstrates conjugate reinforcement. A silent film sequence demonstrates classically conditioned fear, which is operantly reinforced, generalized, then extinguished. Dr. Richard Mallot discusses reinforcers, discrimination training, and operant reinforcement as in behavior modification. Dr. Nathan Azrin discusses aversive conditioning and his pain-aggression experiment and pain-aggression relationships. Dr. B.F. Skinner discusses Utopian societies. Dr. David McClelland discusses his studies of motivation training and reward
motivating continued activity.
SUBJECTS Behavior modification.
SUBJECTS Motivation in education.
SUBJECTS Learning, Psychology of.
SUBJECTS Conditioned response.
Media Film D-10,762
Learning about Learning (1963)
Mayer-Sklar, Inc.
DESCRIPTION 16mm reel (29 min.).
SUMMARY Uses the work of Doctors Howard Kendler, Tracy Kendler, Kenneth Spence, Harry Harlow, and B.F. Skinner in exploring the different strategies used in the development of new theoretical concepts about man's ability to learn, pointing out that these studies have led to new methods of instruction in schools and colleges.
SUBJECTS Learning, Psychology of.
Media Film D-5924
Let's Play Prisoners (1988?)
Julie Zando.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (VHS) (22 min.).
SUMMARY With a background in semiotics and psychoanalytic criticism, Zando uses children's games, oral histories and original writings to examine how power and dependency relationships
between women, friends and lovers, are modeled after mother-child patterns.
SUBJECTS Dependency (Psychology)
Media Video BF575.D34 L48 1988
Life's First Feelings (1986)
a production of James Lipscomb, Inc. in association with WGBH.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (VHS) (57 min.).
SUMMARY Discusses research which examines infants' emotions, the expression and development of emotions, and the role early feelings play in child development.
SUBJECTS Emotions -- in infancy & childhood.
SUBJECTS Emotions in children.
SUBJECTS Emotions.
SUBJECTS Child psychology.
Media Video BF723.E6 L54 1986
Literature and Psychology: Characters in Crisis (1975)
Center for Humanities.
DESCRIPTION 236 slides. color. 2 x 2 in. & 3 discs (33 1/3 rpm. 12 in. 60 min.), and 3 cassettes (2-track. Mono 60 min.) + teacher's guides.
SUMMARY Shows how the themes of fantasy and crisis are woven throughout literature and illustrates this concept using D. H. Lawrence's story The rocking-horse winner.
SUBJECTS Psychology in literature.
Media Slide PN56.P93 L5