Video Description List
All videos are available in the Psychology Department main office unless otherwise specified.
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Video Description List
Discovering Psychology Series:
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.
Cognitive Processes
Annenberg/CPB 2001
Video # 31
Time: 30 minutes
Description: This program is an exploration into the higher mental processes — reasoning, planning, and problem solving — and why the “cognitive revolution” is attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to computer scientists. With Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University and Dr. Michael Posner of the University of Oregon.
Judgement and Decision Making
Annenberg/CPB 2001
Video # 32
Time: 30 minutes
Description: Exceedingly complex processes are involved in the making of judgements and decisions. This program examines how and why people make good and bad judgements, and the psychology of taking risks. With Dr. Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University and the late Dr. Irving Janis of Yale University.
Language Development
Annenberg/CPB 1989
Videos # 29A/29B
Time: 27:40 minutes
Description: How children develop complex language skills and use language in social communication is presented.
Cognitive Processes
Annenberg/CPB 1989
Videos # 31A/31B
Time: 27:38 minutes
Description: Why is the "cognitive revolution" attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to to computer scientists? The intriguing answer is found in an exploration of the higher mental processes--reasoning, planning, and problem solving.
Judgment and Decision Making
Annenberg/CPB 1989
Videos # 32A/32B
Time: 27:52 minutes
Description: This program examines the psychology of risk taking and negotiation--why and how we make judgments and decisions.
Teaching Modules: Language and Thinking
Annenberg/CPB 1989
Video # 26E
Time: 32:45 minutes
Description: Researchers show how heredity and one's environment influence language development. The ways in which people send and receive messages through body language are explained.
The Mind Series:
Teaching Modules: The Mind Tape 3
Annenberg/CPB 1999
Video # 128
Description: (23) Infant Speech Sound Discrimination. Demonstrates how infants can discriminate between subtle sound differences; focuses largely on infant speech development. (24) Language Predisposition. Deals with language, development, and research methodology; provides a good demonstration of human sound recognition abilities. (25) Human Language: Signed and Spoken. Explores how sign language is processed; discusses hemispheric specialization, language acquisition, the nature of language formation, and methodology. (26) The Bilingual Brain. Illustrates the capabilities of the fMRI, one of the latest technologies used by scientists to investigate brain functions. (27) Animal Language. Examines animal communication, the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and comparative cognitive behavior. (28) Language and Culture. Relates to language development, the nature versus nature debate, and cultural influences on behavior.
The Brain Series:
The Two Brains
Annenberg/CPB 1984
Video # 50
Time: 60 minutes
Description: Research on split-brain patients provides information on the cortical hemispheres, sex differences of the human brain and the relationship between thought and language.
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Inside Psych Series
Allyn & Bacon
Video # 116
Time: 15 minutes
Description: Part 2: Children's private speech.
PSI Language Acquisition
UND Television Date Unknown
Video # 87
Time: Approximately 18 minutes.
Description: Video of the testing of a child on the acquisition of language.
Chimpanzee
National Geographic Presents
Videos # 57/58
Time: Approximately 25 minutes
Description: A television program about <>the behavior of chimpanzees and Jane Goodall's life and research. Poor tracking.
Language Acquisition
Unknown Producer Unknown Date
Video # 73
Time: Approximately 14 minutes.
Description: Video of Carol Chomsky "Ask and Tell", Jean Berko "Inflectual Endings", Carol Chomsky "Deep Structure", Michael Maratsos "Definite and Indefinite Articles", and Carol Chomsky " Before and After".
Web Sites
Psychology of Language Page of Links (University of Memphis)
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