Ten Great Ideas: Psychology
| We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...Philosopher Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton) | ||
| Three famous psychology experiments | ||
| 1. The Asch Conformity Experiments | Link | Overview plus critique. Text-based from psychology.about.com |
| "Many of us will deny our own senses just to conform with others." | Link | From spring.org |
| Link | Youtube. 2 mins. | |
| With some interesting variations | Link | Youtube. 4 mins. |
| 2. The Milgram Experiment | From Youtube. 10 mins. | |
A summary of the same |
Youtube. 3 minutes | |
| It was repeated in 2009 with the same results. | Youtube. 6 mins. Part 1 of 3. | |
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil ted youtube |
Link | Youtube 23 mins |
3. The Stanford Prison Experiment |
Relevant video keeps getting removed, but it is a fascinating story so make sure to do a search for it. |
|
| Professor Zimbardo himself comments on the experiment | Youtube. 7 mins | |
| Turns out the science behind the experiment is seriously flawed | Can you see why before reading about it? Text-based, from BPS research. | |
| 4. The Bystander Effect | ||
| Link | Youtube. 7 mins | |
| The Death of Kitty Genovese | Link | Youtube. 7 mins |
| Why good people do bad things | ||
1000s of Singaporean men, women & children being shot, beheaded, or used for live bayonet practice by Japanese: |
||
| In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the ideas of Social Influence and how it can affect our decisions to act or to not act. | Youtube. 10 mins. | |
| Five monkeys - how to create a mentality of 85% of the people that we call MASS ? | Link | Sometimes we do things or believe things and can't even remember why we started doing them or believing them in the first place. Youtube. 2 mins. |
| How You Really Make Decisions | link | From Fast and Slow Thninking Horizon Documentary |
| Introduction to Psychology | ||
| Discovering Psychology | Introductory video | |
| Superstars of Psychology: 10 Best Short TED Talks (Videos) | Compiled on spring.org.uk | |
| The Power of the Situation: An overview of all of the above |
YouTube. 25 mins. This gets uploaded and removed regularly, so do a search for it on YouTube or Google. | |
| A group of undergraduates previously informed as to how social-psychological factors operate to inhibit helping behavior was more likely to help a victim at a later date than was an uninformed group. | Link | One very strong reason to teach Psychology |
| The Power of Nightmares | Link |
Part 1 of 6. Video removed but seach again |
| The Century of the Self | Link |
YouTube. 10 mins, part 1 of 6. Video removed but seach again |
Applying psychology to market research |
With diamond shreddies. Scary what they can make us believe. | |
| A Neurosurgeon Reflects On The 'Awe And Mystery' Of The Brain | Link | "If you don't have conventional religious belief, as I don't, I think in a way thinking about the mystery of one's own consciousness and the universe is a sort of compensation for that in some ways." Interview and podcast. Well worth watching the documentary also. |
| The Secret You | Perspective on consciousness. Documentary. YouTube. 1 hour |
|