This film explores an interactionist approach to obesity: Part 1: shows how cultural and environmental changes have altered our relationship with food and created an ‘obesogenic environment’. But why isn’t everyone obese? …
Sampling is crucial in psychology but can be difficult to understand. This film offers a helping hand with a series of visual images that take students through target population, samples, representativeness and generalisability. It then looks at how sampling is done, illustrating differences between…
Self Report methods gather data directly from the participants. Here, we illustrate and compare questionnaire and interview methods, then look at some of the problems and limitations common to all self report methods and show how they may be avoided or overcome.
While ethics is about the conduct of research, socially sensitive research is about the consequences. Might it harm some individuals or groups? Using the example of recent research into genetics and education, this film illustrates the questions typically asked about socially sensitive research…
Is the brain more malleable than we thought? Recent developments in brain scanning have shown how environmental factors affect brain development and have called into question the usefulness of the age-old nature vs. nurture debate. This film uses evidence from recent research into deprivation,…
Everything we do, think, and feel comes from our brain. This new series of short films, with neuroscience expert Dr Guy Sutton, has been designed to make the complexities of the human brain as accessible as possible to students. The first film begins by looking at the structure and function of…
Neuroimaging is re-writing our map of the brain. The second film in the series looks at how our knowledge and understanding of the brain was revolutionised towards the end of the 20th Century by developments in neuroimaging, such as CT, PET, MRI, fMRI and DTI scanning. The film then explores some…
The ERA was the first study to follow a cohort of children who had suffered periods of institutional deprivation through into adult life. To their surprise, researchers found that problems experienced by many of the Romanian adoptees were neurodevelopmental, suggesting that deprivation had affected…
Why do we fall in love? What makes us fall in love? And what happens to love? Poets, historians, philosophers, have been writing about these questions for centuries. But now scientists have joined in, exploring the brain in love. In this film, we follow a young couple falling in love, and talk…
Have you ever wondered why some people claim to see the face of Jesus in their toast? Well, psychologists at the University of Toronto did. But why? This film uses a number of studies to illustrate how the usefulness of psychological research is assessed and evaluated. And if you're…
Although the idea of variables can seem dull and uninspiring, they are crucial because they're everywhere in psychology. This film provides a clear introduction to this concept, explaining and illustrating the key questions of definition, types, reliability, validity and application.
— For Home Use Only — Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and creator of the renowned Stanford Prison Experiment. Daniel Ellsberg served in the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and is best known as the whistleblower who released…
