Producers: Coast Learning Systems

Focuses on how people form impressions of others and how people’s behavior is affected by attitudes.

Analyzes the formation of attitudes and how they can be turned into prejudice. It also explores ways to prevent prejudice and how to appreciate individual and group diversity.

Demonstrates how our senses gather information about the world around us. Perception is also covered in depth.

Illustrates how our consciousness and awareness vary throughout a typical day. It also explores the impact of circadian rhythms.

Discusses Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment and how it demonstrates the process of learning by an association or relationship.

Discusses observational learning. The cognitive process of learning is illustrated using B. F. Skinner’s research.

Answers the question of “What is memory?” and explains how our sense of identity relies on memories of personal history and connections with the people around us.

Explores the fact that most animals have the ability to communicate, but only humans have language, symbols for objects, actions, ideas, and feelings.

Explores what intelligence means in different environments and cultures and discusses nature versus nurture and the history and biases of intelligence testing.

Offers an in-depth discussion of biological and social theories of motivation, intertwined with Bandura’s presentation on the role of self-efficacy.