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Teaching Social Psychology With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Attitudes and Behavior: Fundamental attribution error Festinger (cognitive dissonance) Friendship, liking, and loving others Group influence: Asch (conformity) Milgram (obedience) Zimbardo (authority) Janis (groupthink) Prejudice and Read more...

Teaching Psychological Disorders & Treatments With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Classifying disorders: DSM-V Major categories of disorders: Anxiety, dissociative, mood, personality, schizophrenia Major approaches to psychotherapy: Psychoanalysis, behavioristic, humanistic, cognitive, group, pharmacological Evaluating therapeutic Read more...

Teaching Motivation, Emotions and Personality With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Motivational concepts: Maslow's hierarchy of needs, instincts, drives, optimal arousal Hunger and Eating disorders Achievement: Self-determination, intrinsic & extrinsic motivators Physiology of emotions Expression of Read more...

Teaching Developmental Psychology With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Understanding the nature versus nurture debate Overview of early physical development: Brain, motor, and sensory-perceptual Overview of social-emotional development: Attachment, parenting styles Overview of cognitive development: Read more...

Teaching About Memory With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: 3-Stage memory model: Sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory Encoding, storage, and retrieval of memories How forgetting happens Traumatic brain injuries and other brain decays Read more...

Teaching Psychology of Learning With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Classical conditioning: Pavlov, Watson, stimuli and responses, Operant conditioning: Thorndike, Skinner, reinforcements and punishment Cognitive-Social Learning: Kohler, Tolman, Bandura Aggression and avoidance behaviors Learned helplessness Biofeedback Read more...

Teaching Sensation and Perception With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Experiencing sensations: Processing, thresholds, and adaptations Sensory systems: Visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and olfaction Perception: Attention, processing, and illusions Gestalt perceptions Interpretation of perceptions Read more...

Teaching Biopsychology and Neuroscience with Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Overview of the nervous system Brain structures Cerebral cortex and lobes of the brain Overview of the endocrine system Overview of genetics and evolution Read more...

Teaching History & Scientific Foundations With Movies Core Concepts to Cover: Difference between psychology and pseudo-psychology Overview of major historical schools of psychology Overview of the major contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of psychology Read more...