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Discovering Psychology Series:
The Developing Child

Annenberg/CPB     2001
Video # 29
Time: 30 minutes
Description: This program traces the nature vs. nurture debate, revealing how developmental psychologists study the contributions of both heredity and environment to child development. With Dr. Renee Baillargeon of the University of Illinois and Dr. Judy De Loache of the University of Illinois.

Language Development
Annenberg/CPB     2001
Video # 29
Time: 30 minutes
Description:  The development of language has many facets to explore. This program looks at how developmental psychologists investigate the human mind, society, and culture by studying children’s use of language in social communication. With Dr. Jean Berko-Gleason of Boston University and Dr. Ann Fernald of Stanford University.

Sex and Gender
Annenberg/CPB     2001
Video # 35
Time: 30 minutes
Description:  This program explores the ways in which males and females are similar and different, and how gender roles reflect social values and psychological knowledge. With Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University and Dr. Eleanor Maccoby of Stanford University.

Maturing and Aging
Annenberg/CPB     2001
Video # 35
Time: 30 minutes
Description:  What really happens, physically and psychologically, as we age? This program looks at how society reacts to the last stages of life. With Dr. Laura Carstensen of Stanford University and Dr. Sherry Willis of Penn State University. Updated.

The Developing Child
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Videos # 29A/29B
Time: 27:39 minutes
Description:  The impact of heredity and environment on children's development illuminates the age-old nature vs. nurture debate.

Maturing and Aging
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Video # 35A
Time:  30 minutes
Description:  This program focuses on physical and psychological aging, and shows how society reacts.

Teaching Modules: Physical and Cognitive Development
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Video # 26I
Time:  21:56 minutes
Description:  Explores how the stages of cognitive development are related to studies of children's thought processes.  Explains the effects of aging, including memory loss and biological changes.
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Working Parents
United Learning    2001
Video # 130
Time: 21 minutes
Description:  The purpose of this video is to provide parents with an overview of the challenges facing working parents and valuable keys to successful juggling of career, marriage and children.

Prenatal Development: A Life in the Making
Magna Systems    1996
Video # 1
Time: 26 minutes
Description:  This video fully explores the three stages of prenatal development offering insight and perspective into each.  It also reviews organs and structures that nourish and protect the fetus during the ctitical trimesters and the influences of maternal, paternal and environmental factors on development.

Self Identity and Sex Role Development
Magna Systems    1993
Video # 2
Time: 33 minutes
Description:  Explores the development of self identity starting in infancy and the importance of adults and other children in acquiring ethnic, racial and gender identities.

Seasons of Life: Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth-Age 5)
Annenberg/CPB     1990
Video # 40
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  Beginning with the first years of life, the program explores the early influences of the biological and social clocks, how children develop, and how they gain confidence and curiosity.

Seasons of Life: Childhood and Adolescence (Ages 6-20)
Annenberg/CPB     1990
Video # 41
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  Examines the years before and during adolescence and the stressful task of molding an identity while the biological and social clocks are out of synch.

Seasons of Life: Early Adulthood (Ages 20-40)
Annenberg/CPB     1990
Video # 42
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  Young adults hear the first of many messages from the social clock: to separate from family, get a job, find a mate, set goals, and face reality in this period of intense social growth.

Seasons of Life: Middle Adulthood (Ages 40-60)
Annenberg/CPB     1990
Video # 43
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  Older adults are concerned with creating a legacy for the next generation, changes in life direction, and personal goal achievement.

Seasons of Life: Late Adulthood (Ages 60+)
Annenberg/CPB     1990
Video # 44
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  An examination of the last stage of life, when people consider what they might still do to change or add to their lives.

Teaching Modules:  The Mind
Annenberg/CPB    1999
Video # 128
Description: (18) Effects of Mental and Physical Activity on the Brain/Mind.  Introduces Dr. William Greenough's expanded studies on the effects of mental and physical activity on the aging brain and mind.  (19) Understanding Alzheimer's Disease.  Provides a clear demonstration of how the advent of new technologies has aided research into the etiology of disease.
     
The Human Body: Symptoms of Aging
Films for the Humanities    1993
Video # 113
Time:  28 minutes
Description:  This program covers some of the symptoms of aging- loss of muscular strength, reduced visual capability, arteriosclerosis- as well as how these may be prevented, postponed, or dealt with; and shows both how fitness can be maintained and how seniors may have the edge over younger people.

Childhood Physical Abuse
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1990
Video # 119
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program covers the range of problems in the area of physical abuse of children, with professional in various aspects of the problem who share their expertise.

Childhood Sexual Abuse
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1990
Video # 118
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program looks at the ways in which adult women learn to work out the problems caused by their sexually abusive fathers and how they seek to protect their own children from a recurrence of the pattern.  Psychiatrists, social workers, and law enforcement officials look at various aspects of this problem.

Children of Divorce
Films of the Humanities    1993
Video # 112
Time:  28 minutes
Description:  Studies are now making clear that children of divorce almost never recover totally for the pain, confusion, guilt and displacement resulting from their parents' divorce; instead, they continue into adulthood to evince academic, behavioral, and psychological problems.  This specially adapted Phil Donahue program examines the legacy of divorce on children.

Autism: Breaking Through
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1991
Video # 111
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program examines the causes and symptoms of autism and the various treatment options available.

Infant Assessment
UND Television  Unknown Date
Video # 69
Time:  Approximately 7 minutes
Description:  Assessment of an infant using APGAR.

Piaget Sensory Motor Preoperational Stages
UND Television  1980
Video # 81
Time:  Approximately 20 minutes.
Description:  Presentation of Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development by Mark Grabe with examples of tests given to children.

Piaget Concrete and Formal Operations
UND Television  1980
Videos # 82/83
Time: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description:  Demonstrations of Piaget's concrete and formal operation stages through the Pendulum Problem, the Archimedes Problem and combinatorial analysis by Mark Grabe.

Sensory Preoperation PSI: Early Cognitive Development
UND Television
Video # 90
Time:  30 minutes.
Description:  Sensory tasks given to children including tests on schemes, and object permanence, and proportional tests including animism, realism and conservation tasks.

Prenatal: Lamaze Method
UND Television    Date Unknown
Video # 86
Time:  Approximately 24 minutes.
Description:  Video of Lamaze method, describing basic principles

Prenatal: Lamaze Method (Class Edited)
UND Television    Date Unknown
Video # 85
Time:  Approximately 30 minutes.
Description:  Relaxation techniques and exercises for muscle development for the Lamaze method.

Sex
Producer Unknown    Date Unknown
Video # 91
Time:  Approximately 15 minutes
Description:  An interview with children about their selection of sex-specific toys with Mark Grabe.

Sex Roles and Moral Development
UND Television    Date Unknown
Video # 92
Time:  Approximately 18 minutes.
Description:  Lecture on sex roles and the the interviews of children about their selection of sex-specific toys with Mark Grabe.

Aging
Unknown Producer, Unknown Date
Videos # 53/54
Time:  approximately 25 minutes
Description:  Interviews at Valley Memorial Homes with four individuals in which they discuss their lives and experiences.

The World of Abnormal Psychology: 10: Organic Mental Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 104
Time:  One hour
Description:  A teenager must re-learn all the basic skills following a head injury. After years of alcohol abuse, a man loses his short-term memory. A woman sees her husband struggle against the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Science and technology's role in treating these debilitating disorders is also examined in this program.

Sex Role Development
McGraw Hill Films 1974
Video # 18
Time: approximately 17 minutes
Description:  An examination of the development and impact of sex roles.

Depression and the Elderly
Terra Nova Films  Fairview Audio and Visuals MCMXC
Video # 13
Time: approximately 30 minutes
Description:  An examination of the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly.

Teenage Pregnancy
Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. MCMXC
Video # 15
Time: approximately 17 minutes
Description:  A look at the lives of three teenage mothers

Grace
Video Press MCMXCI
Video # 19
Time: Approximately 100 minutes
Description:  An examination of the effects of Alzheimer's disease following a case of a women who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

Teen Married Couples
Films for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Inc.  MCMXCI
Video # 11
Time:  approximately 19 minutes
Description:  A Phil Donahue program which examines the lives and choices of three couples who were married as teens.

The World of Abnormal Psychology: Behavior Disorders of Childhood
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 105
Time:  One hour
Description: Almost all parents worry whether or not their child's behavior is normal. This program visits families of youngsters with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and autism. In addition, experts in child development and psychology discuss how to differentiate abnormal behavior from developmental stages.

Latch-Key Families
Films for the Humanities    1992
Video # 117
Time:  23 minutes
Description:  This program offers guidance to working parents with children who are on their own after school.  Educational and law enforcement specialists explain how parents can provide for the safety and emotional needs of their children, how rules for conduct can best be set and chores assigned, so that the experience can help teach children maturity and independence.

Moral Development
UND Television  1980?
Videos # 77/78
Time:  Approximately 13 minutes.
Description:  A lecture on Kohlberg's Moral Development stage theory with examples of administration of moral testing to children and adults by Mark Grabe.  Examples of each stage of moral thinking: preconventional, conventional and postconventional including the Piaget "Broken Glass Example" and the Kohlberg "Dying Woman and the Druggist Example" by Mark Grabe.

 

Web Sites

American Academy of Pediatrics Website

APGAR Scoring for Newborns (Childbirth Organization)

Birth Psychology

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

Teratology Society

The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo (NICHD)

 

 
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