More AP Psych Review Videos

After some time away to deal with family matters, I began producing more videos for AP Psychology review today.  Below are three screen captures of my YouTube Channel that has all the videos.  I hope that you and/or your students find these videos helpful.  My goal is not to go into an in-depth explanation of particular content ideas, but rather to create short reviews of the concepts in the respective titles.

At the moment, I have uploaded about 25 videos.  More are on the way.  I included memory, forgetting, bodily rhythms, psychophysics, standard deviation, random sample versus random assignment, transduction and the ear/eye, the genes to cognition website as a great review and more.


Click here to select the video(s) you would like to watch.

posted by Chuck

Downloading Video Files From Internet Sources; CatchVideo

We have posted in the past sites that help you save video files from YouTube.com and other video sites.  The site below does the same thing, but allows you to choose the format you'd like to save it in, whether you are a Mac or a PC user.  Very cool tool for you to back up all those videos you love but seem to disappear when you try to show them in class.

You can also convert to .mp3 files

http://catchvideo.net/

A video I may want to download:

Copy the URL and go to CatchVideo.Net

Let the Java Program run on your computer.

Choose your preferred format and download to the folder of your choice on your computer.

As with all computer data, be sure to back it up--frequently!

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

Back to School Motivation-A Must-See Video

Yesterday, I was sitting in my in-service meetings.  My Principal showed us this video by Dalton Sherman, a young man who is well on his way to doing great things.  Please take the time to watch.  It is very much worth it.  By all means, share it with your colleagues as well.  These days with classes of more than 40 students, we need to be reminded of what our roles are. 



Posted by Chuck Schallhorn

Maslow and YouTube

Since its inception, YouTube has been a fantastic resource of short video clips not just for psychology, but all courses. The primary difficulty with YouTube is going through the large collection and determining which would work best in a class.

For example, a search on YouTube for "Maslow hierarchy of needs" came back with over 500 hits. Many of the postings are from students who created a video for their psychology class. Some are fantastic others are questionable to say the least.

For this posting of the Midnight Postings I would ask that anyone who has found a good YouTube video on Maslow to add the specifics in a comment below. The homepage for YouTube can be found at http://www.youtube.com/

Using Media for Illustrating Disorders

In general, I will try to locate video clips of real people who suffer from disorders to show the pain, anxiety, panic, depression, mania, etc. to illustrate certain symptoms or disorders. I ran across this site on YouTube this week. The author is a doctoral student in media psychology and calls himself "Mediashrink." He uses cartoons and other media to illustrate disorders. The link is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MediaShrink. While I have not viewed all the videos, I liked the one on the Wizard of Oz as possibly suffering from Bipolar Disorder.


His description of his Channel: This site will be dedicated to explanation of psychological disorders using existing media remixed by Nuwerks Publishing and NuWerks.com.
These videos were created to convey information about symptoms and hold the viewer's attention. Further information about how these disorders can be found in the DSM IV. While some of the characters in the videos do not precisely fit the specified disorder, they do make do make learning about the disorders more entertaining and memorable.

Online Videos as a Resource

Many teachers now have access to computers and projectors to view videos and films on the larger screens. Early in my career, I attended a conference that asserted that if we are to show films, we should show clips that last no longer than ten minutes and use previewing and followup techniques to maximize educational benefit. The premise was that if students wanted to watch the entire video, s/he could rent it and watch it at home.

That said, the following is a list of online video resources that can be used in conjunction with a high school psychology course. If there are any I missed, please add them in the comment section.

From Annenberg Media

Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition

http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html

The World of Abnormal Psychology (caution, this used 1992 DSM-III diagnoses)

http://www.learner.org/resources/series60.html

The Mind: Teaching Modules

http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html

The Brain: Teaching Modules

http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html

Seasons of Life (development)

http://www.learner.org/resources/series54.html

Growing Old in a New Age

http://www.learner.org/resources/series84.html

Death: A Personal Understanding

http://www.learner.org/resources/series108.html

From PBS

Dying to Be Thin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program_t.html

Life's Greatest Miracle
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program_t.html

Ape Genius
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html

PBS Frontline Viewing Portal--for all shows
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

Inside the Teenage Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/

The Merchants of Cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/

American Experience--Jonestown and others
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/onlineFilms/theme/popculture/

Sand Painting and Perception

I recently showed a video from YouTube that had a long clip from an Eastern European nation (I suspect Ukraine or Russia, but am not sure. The video was from a talent show for that nation that involved a woman using a light board, creating images with a camera mounted above and projected to the audience. The scenes evoked images from World War II and the images along with the music brought tears to the eyes of the judges and audience members. We discussed how non-total images can create conclusions of perception due to perceptual sets and learning. Other aspects of perception include edge detection, pattern recognition, emotions and memory, music and emotions, figure-ground, gestalt, and more. We also spoke about the "eye" of an artist and how artists often see the world in a different way than the rest of us--oh, yeah--schemas. The possibilities are quite wonderful. Even better, my students were moved by the creative force illustrated here. It was a good day.

Awareness Test Video Clips

I love my students. I share one thing with them and they share several videos back with me.

This also shows how a good idea/principle can be taken from psychology and used in a variety of contexts. Perhaps Watson really began something when he left psych and went into advertising.

A clip of the original awareness test--"a visual attention experiment conducted by Becklen and Cervone(1983) to show that the human mind has its limits. There is only so much the brain can process at a particular time and it must be selective in what it chooses to filter."

Awareness test #1 (moonwalking gorilla--cycling awareness ad)

Awareness test #2 (a Clue-like set that has 21 changes--cycling awareness ad)

Awareness test #3 (football and cheerleader) used as an ad for The Mentalist on CBS

A Break.com spoof of the awareness tests with an ad for shoe lifts.

As a side note, I will use this as an example of how they might miss my instructions or an announcement from another teacher about an upcoming exam. This mental filter is great for illustrating schemas as well as selective perception.