This informative and useful resource will answer questions on a variety of important aspects that students find challenging when studying Psychology.
Subjects: Psychology
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Love: What Everyone Needs to Know
According to psychologists, the single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship. Yet, although we concede that knowledge is power, most of us have only a rudimentary understanding of what we’re in for when we go off in search of true love.
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Personality Theories
Personality Theories is a comprehensive survey course that examines the fundamental principles behind our most valued schools of psychological thought. The course, taught by Professor Terri P. Schwartz of Governor State University, covers five major trends in personality analysis: Early analytical theories; Behaviorist approaches; Social and interpersonal theories; Academic techniques of personality study; Growth-oriented techniques of personality study. As a survey course, Personality Theories offers a landscape view of modern psychology. The course helps students identify and inter-relate the contributions of each psychological theory by assigning it to one of five distinct categories: Early analytical theories, as exemplified by Adler, Jung, and Freud; Behaviorist approaches advocated by Bandura, Dollard, and Skinner; Social and interpersonal theories advanced by Adler, Horney, Sullivan, and Fromm; Academic techniques of personality study used by Allport, Eysenck, Murray, and Kelly; Growth-oriented techniques of personality study typified by the theories of Laing, Maslow, and Rogers
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Transitions Throughout the Life Span
Transitions Throughout the Life Span offers an engaging look at human development across the life span, paying particular attention to the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial processes that people experience as they adapt to life circumstances. The twenty-six 30-minute video lessons incorporate videography of biological processes, as well as historical and contemporary research. The course provides students with a chance to observe people during all stages of life and hear from many leading human development experts and medical professionals.
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Psychology
Psychology strives to explain why we behave as we do, and how the body and brain work together. Psychology explains some of the more “complex” schools of thought, the nervous system, how psychological experiments are conducted, and more. (3 x 26:00)
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Lives Interrupted
This series depicts what happens when lives are disturbed and how people put them back together again. Through the vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of crises – both benign and difficult – the series will examine how they rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds. (13 x 30:00)