Psychology
Category 1/2
Dalit Halevi
Documentary: Discovering
Psychology
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Biological Level of Analysis
Documentaries
The Secret Life of the Brain
The Brain: A Secret History
Should I Smoke Dope?
How to look inside the brain
Readings/Games
Drugs, Brains and Behavior
How drugs work
The Brain – Tour and Quiz
Electroshock Therapy
A light switch for neurons
Contemporary Phineas Gage
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The making of individual
differences
Neuro-Jeopardy
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Cognitive Level of Analysis
Documentaries
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of
experience vs. memory
Readings/Games
Antonio Damasio: The quest to
understand consciousness
Understanding Memory
How to make better decisions
Brainwashing: the Key to Weight
Loss? Elizabeth Loftus
Phantoms in the brain
Self-Efficacy
My Brilliant Brain
Gender stereotypes
The Human Mind
Placebos
Alone: The Brain, Sensory
Deprivation and Isolation
Can we trust eyewitness…
Stroop Effect
Beyond Thought
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Face Memory Test
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Sociocultural Level of Analysis
Readings/Games
Flashcards
Conformity Key Studies
My immigration story
Obedience Key Studies
Zimbardo: Psychology of Evil
Testosterone and Aggression
The power of the situation
Understanding Prejudice
Tough Guise: Violence, Media &
the Crisis in Masculinity
Stanford Prison Experiment
Milgram replication
Asch Experiment
A Class Divided
Computer/TV time and psych
problems
Henry Tajfel–Minimal
Groups
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Option: Relationship Psychology
Documentaries
How to buy happiness
Happiness and why we want it
Why we love & cheat –
Helen Fisher
Love competition
Readings
Good Samaritanism - Paliavin
How group think makes killers
Strategies for reducing violence
The Violent Brain
Scent of fertility
The price for friendship
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The rules of attraction
What makes women atttractive
Social Exchange Theory
Fatal Attraction Theory
Predicting failure in
relationships
Inside the mind of a suicide
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Option: Abnormal Psychology
Readings
Documentaries
OCD
Anorexia’s childhood roots
Exploring the mind of a killer
A tale of mental illness
Are you good or evil?
Life of manic depressive
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What is “abnormal”?
Biological Perspective
Cognitive Perspective
Ethics in diagnosis
Faces of abnormality
Causes Anorexia
What are eating disorders?
Addicted to starvation
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Internal Assessment
Extra stuff
IA ideas and more!
21 tips for better
writing
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http://cranepsych2.edublogs.org/
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