Classification with Ph.D.s Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli Drs. Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli use Piagetian classification tasks to...

Formal Reasoning Patterns with Ph.D.s Robert Karplus and Rita Peterson This film illustrates the tasks Dr. Piaget and his collaborators developed to probe the thinking...

Narrated by Erikson's colleague, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Ph.D. and Ruthie Mickles, Ph.D. Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film introduces students...

Positive intimate relationships with spouses, relatives and friends are incredibly important to mental health in adulthood. John Bowlby's Attachment Theory shows how...

John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952), he not only wrote...

Born more than 25 years before Piaget or Vygotsky, Maria Montessori understood the constructivistic nature of all learning. As she observed children building their...

Mary Ainsworth’s “Strange Situation” is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close...

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The...

Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Bandura’s work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small...

It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward situations just as do...

Other than Freud, no psychologist has been so discussed, critiqued and, at times, maligned as B.F. Skinner. Using both archival and new film, this video takes a new look...

Systematic examination of old age is a new field inspired by the unprecedented number of people living long enough to become elderly. Developmental psychologists Paul...

The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the life, vocabulary and...

William James, more than anyone else, was responsible for introducing the wide range of topics that now comprise the broad field of psychology. In his magnificent text,...

Traces the development of psychology by focusing on the key contributions and methods of Freud, Jung, Adler, Pavlov, Sullivan, Maslow, Watson and Skinner. Introduces...

Using dramatized case studies, both programs explain how defense mechanisms help people deal with everyday stress and how the unconscious affects behavior. Part 1:...

Explores the beliefs, emotions and behaviors that compel individuals to use drugs. Presents your students with critical statistics on alcoholism, heroin use and other...

Uses dramatizations to illustrate sociopathic, paranoid, schizoid, avoidant, narcissistic, histrionic, passive-aggressive, and compulsive disorder types. Your students...