Applied Psychology Series (5 Parts)

Synopsis

A series of five videos that help bring the critical issues to life using students’ own experiences, case study examples and academic and expert analysis. The programmes are designed for the AQA AS-level syllabus but several of the topics are also relevant to students taking other Boards.
Key interviewees include Michael Eysenck, Phil Banyard, Nick Emler, Mike Cardwell, Susie Orbach and Hugh Davenport.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2004

Year of production

2004

Documentation

Free accompanying booklet

Subjects

Psychology

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

Availability

Sale

Year

2010

Sections

Title

Eyewitness testimony

Synopsis

The video uses experimental evidence and a combination of expert and lay insights to illuminate key issues relating to eyewitness testimony. Divided into three sections: 1) The reliability of eyewitness testimony: a case study - begins with film of a robbery and explores students’ ability to remember details of the criminal and the crime. This student-based example illustrates many of the problems of eyewitness testimony; 2) Memory and Imagination - uses a combination of expert and lay insights to examine the concept of schemas, the nature of constructive memory and, using witnesses’ evidence, illustrates the effect of leading questions and planting false information; 3) Improving Eyewitness Testimony - using police and psychological analysis, looks at hypnosis, police reconstructions and the cognitive interview.

Duration

25 mins

Title

Day care

Synopsis

With an increasing proportion of mothers in full-time work, the demand for day care has escalated. Located in a day care nursery, and looking at the views of parents, carers and psychological experts, this video discusses some of the possible effects of day care on children. Divided into 3 parts: 1) Researching day care - examines some of the methods involved in studying day care, including experimental methods such as the ‘strange situation’, and some of the difficulties involved in interpreting the results; 2) The effects of day care -
starting with Bowlby’s famous theory of attachment, this part explores the possible effects of day care on young children’s emotional, cognitive and social developments; 3) Saying the right things? - in the 1950s when most mothers stayed at home to look after their children, psychologists were stressing how important this was for their childrens development. At the end of the 20th century, with more and more children in day care, psychologists were enthusing about the positive aspects of good day care. This brief final section raises the question of whether or not psychologists are simply telling people what they want to hear.

Duration

25 mins

Title

Stress management

Synopsis

Looks at the causes of stress, methods used to manage it, and how successful they are. The video is centred around stress counsellors’ visit to a school. It looks at stresses amongst the teaching staff and examines some of the stress management techniques suggested by the counsellors. Real life stress management is intercut with expert analysis and guidance. Divided into 3 sections: 1) What is stress? - begins with a case study of stress in the teaching profession, examines why stress can be bad for us and asks what can be done about it; 2) Stress Management: medical and psychological approaches - illustrates and compares medical and psychological approaches to stress and looks at how stress is measured; Stress Management: strategies - looks at stress management in action by following the visit of stress consellors to a school and illustrates behavioural, cognitive and organisational strategies. The programme concludes by considering some criticisms of the rise and rise of the stress management industry.

Duration

25 mins

Title

Eating disorders

Synopsis

Located in Rhodes Farm, a world famous centre for the treatment of eating disorders, this video examines the major psychological theories of the cause of eating disorders. As well as the children themselves, there are contrasting contributions from two of the leading authorities in the field: Dr. Dee Dawson and Susie Orbach. Divided into three sections: 1) A biological basis? - outlines what is meant by an eating disorder and looks at some of the insights and limitations of biological explanations; 2) Dying to be thin: a culture of thinness - uses a series of stark images and personal experiences to document the pressures on young people, and on girls in particular, to lose weight. But why is it only some people who suffer from eating disorders?; 3) Happy families -
starting with the question raised at the end of the previous section, the final part examines some of the explanations that locate the origins of eating disorders within ‘disfunctional’ families.

Duration

25 mins

Title

Obedience and ethics

Synopsis

Conformity is essential to social life. But behind the familiar order of everyday life lurk some uncomfortable truths. Psychological experiments have shown that our desire to conform can lead us into mistrusting our own experiences, turn a blind eye to the suffering of others and, sometimes, inflict harm on others. But these findings come at a price - the possible harm to those being studied. Should psychologists be doing this type of research?
This video is based around a proposed student research into school bullying to provide a ‘student friendly’ insight into some of the key ethical issues raised. Commentary is provided by one of the leading authorities on ethics in psychological research, Professor Nick Embler of the London School of Economics

The programme is divided into three sections: 1) Obeying authority - focuses on Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments, looks at the work’s origins in the holocaust, its methods and findings, and concludes by asking whether the research should have been done; 2) Ethics and research: a case study - this section begins by looking at what an ethical issue is in psychological research and, drawing on the previous section, outlines three major ethical issues: consent, deception and harm. It then concludes with an examination of how these issues relate to a student project on bullying; 3) Going too fa - shows the outcome of the students’ deliberation of ethical constraints and this is used, in a brief concluding section, to raise the question of whether or not ethical concerns are preventing important research from being done.

Duration

25 mins

Production Company

Name

Halovine Video

Email

enquiries@onlineclassroom.tv

Web

http://www.onlineclassroom.tv/ External site opens in new window

Phone

0845 505 0664

Fax

0845 505 0664

Address

PO Box 104
Hinkley
Leics
LE10 2WW

Notes

In 2008 Halovine rebranded and became part Online Classroom

Distributor

Name

Classroom Video

Notes

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