Discovering Psychology

Past, Present, and Promise is the first program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. It provides an introduction to and overview of psychology, from its origins in the nineteenth...

Understanding Research is the second program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program examines how we know what we know. You'll explore the scientific method, the distinc...

The Behaving Brain is the third program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the structure and composition of the human brain: how neurons function, how info...

The Responsive Brain is the fourth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores how the brain alters its structure and functioning in response to social situ...

The Developing Child is the fifth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program introduces examples of cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral development in children. Y...

Language Development is the sixth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program outlines the development of language in children. It highlights linguist Noam Chomsky's...

Sensation and Perception is the seventh program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program unravels the complex process of how we see. You'll learn about visual illusions a...

Learning is the eighth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program discusses the basic principles of how we learn; classical, instrumental, and operant conditioning;...

Remembering and Forgetting is the ninth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the complexity of memory: how images, ideas, language, physical actions,...

Cognitive Processess is the tenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores the evolution of cognitive psychology and how we take in information. Cognitiv...

Judgement and Decision Making is the eleventh program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the process of making decisions and judgements, how and why people...

Motivation and Emotion is the twelfth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. Based on the early research of Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow, this program explores the sourc...

The Mind Awake and Asleep is the thirteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. Drawing on the theories of early modern psychologists Wilhelm Wundt and William James, thi...

The Mind Hidden and Divided is the fourteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. Based on the pioneering research of Sigmund Freud, this program explores how the events...

The Self is the fifteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. In this program, you'll explore how psychologists study the origins of self-identity, self-esteem, and the s...

Testing and Intelligence is the sixteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores the history of intelligence tests, based on the work of Alfred Binet....

Sex and Gender is the seventeenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores the distinction between sex and gender, and the ways gender stereotypes channe...

Maturing and Aging is the eighteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the human life cycle in spans of 20-25 years, and what happens physically a...

The Power of the Situation is the nineteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores psychologists' attempts to understand human behavior within its bro...

Constructing Social Reality is the twentieth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the process and elements of interpreting reality. You'll explore th...

Psychopathology is the twenty-first program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. Through glimpses of the original theories of Philippe Pinel, this program explores the biological...

Psychotherapy is the twenty-second program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. It explores different therapeutic approaches as well as the relationships among theory, research, a...

Health, Mind, and Behavior is the twenty-third program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program examines the relationship between mind and body, and some of the ways psyc...

Applying Psychology in Life is the twenty-fourth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program examines innovative ways psychology is being applied to practical situat...

Cognitive Neuroscience is the twenty-fifth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at scientists' attempts to understand how the brain functions in a varie...

Cultural Psychology is the twenty-sixth, and final, program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program explores how cultural psychology integrates cross-cultural research w...