AP Psychology
Units 1-14
Unit 1: Introduction
First Day of School and the Definition of Psychology
Watch how a dog helped one veteran conquer his PTSD
Autism: Stephen Wiltshire Draws Rome
Autism: Stephen Wiltshire draws New York
S. Wiltshire's London at Night
Neisser's Selective Attention (1975)
Inattentional Blindness (Daniel Simons 1998)
Facial Expressions (Paul Ekman)
Unit 3: Biology and Behavior/Thinking
Awake brain surgery (Inside Out longer film)
Neurobiology: The Neuron, System, and Brain
Summary of Neurotransmitter Types (THANK YOU MS. WEIBERG!)
A Really Cool German Video about the Workings of the Synapse
The Brainwave of the Action Potential
Temporal and Spatial Summation
Kids Health and the Endocrine System
Stress, The Hormone Cycle, and The Endocrine System
Introduction to Brain Structure and Function
2-Minute Neuroscience: The Ventricles
Optic Nerve and Language PICTURE
The man with the 7 second memory
Michael Gazzaniga and Split Brain Joe
60 Minutes: Face Blindness Part 1: Damage to Right Brain
60 Minutes: Face Blindness Part 2
Unit 5: Consciousness
VIDEO: Frontline: Chasing Heroin
DISCUSSION: Frontline: Chasing Heroin
VIDEO: Wall Street Journal: American Epidemic: The Nation's Struggle With Opioid Addiction
Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, 2000-2016
Significant Increase in Opioid Drug Overdose Data, 2016
Unit 7: Cognition and Memory
Elizabeth Loftus: The Misinformation Effect
Elizabeth Loftus: The Bunny Effect
Essay: Chomsky v. Skinner, and the Generative Nature of Language
Meyers Unit 7 Memory and Cognition Slideshare
VIDEO: Mandela Effect and Memory
Unit 9 and Unit 3c: Development
BBC: The Human Body at 6:00 minutes
2-Minute Neuroscience: Alzheimer's
VIDEO: Alzheimer's, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga
Mary Ainsworth and The Strange Situation
Assignment: Birth Order and Only Children
The Giraffe, Kubler-Ross, and Stages of Accepting Death
Carol Gilligan and Ethics of Care
NBC: Inside the safest school in America
When you're old you can be selfish
VIDEO: Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
VIDEO: Gilligan and Ethics of Care
Unit 10: Personality
Mandala Symbolism by Carl Jung (A Book)
The Marshmallow Effect and Delayed Gratification
TED, work, and Positive Psychology
REVIEW: Measuring Personality: Crash Course Psychology #22
Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology
Bipolar disorder manic episode
Auditory Hallucinations in a Schizophrenic's Mind
Five characteristics of Gerald
Paranoid Schizophrenia: Gerald Part 1
Paranoid S chizophrenia: Gerald Part 2
Louis Wain: Cute cats and pscyhadelia
Catatonia, flat affect, and waxy flexibility
PBS: C4 gene discovered for schizophrenia (2016)
NYT Completely Normal: Autism (Asberger's) and Tourette's - A friendship
Unit 14: Social Psychology
PBS: How poverty changes the brain
Feature Film - The Stanford Prison Experiment
Hollywood's Preview: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland: Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment
Solomon Asch's Conformity Experiment
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment
Diffusion and the Bystander Effect: The Death of Marques Gaines
Bystander Effect and Kitty Genovese
The Lucifer Effect: Abu Ghraib (at 5:20)
Unit 4: Sensation and Perception
Sensation Powerpoint (published)
MC Escher and Ideas of Perception
Ulric Neisser's Selective Attention Experiment
Dan Simons' Change Blindness and The Door Study
Checker Cube Illusion - Brightness Contrast
"Break your brain" optical illusions
The science of opioid withdrawal
The Dangers of Quitting Opiates Cold Turkey
A VIDEO: Miracle Tech Could Reverse Blindness
Revolutionary CRISPR Gene Editing Trial for Vision Loss at Mass Eye and Ear
BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Reverse Blindness [CRISPR Technology]
Unit 6: Learning
Classical Conditioning and the Chocolate Man Commercial
Classical Conditioning and the Danish Beer Commercial
John Watson is MEAN to Little Albert
Conditioning a dog for a nail tri m
Bandura and Observational Learning
The Big Bang Theory and Operant Conditioning
Aversive Conditioning of Bears
John Garcia, Taste, and Aversive Conditioning of Coyotes
Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion
Harry Harlow and Contact Comfort
VIDEO: AJ Hackett Bungee Jumping
VIDEO: The Sky Dive and Optimal Arousal
VIDEO: Thrill-Seekers Can Climb NYC Skyscraper In New Attraction
VIDEO: Daredevil on Scaling America’s Tallest Building: ‘No Idea What I Was Doing’
CDC Obesity and Diabetes Trends
Dying to be thin with Susan Sarandon
VIDEO: Mirror Neurons (4 minute review)
VIDEO: Resurgence of Maori Tattoo
VIDEO 2: Resurgence of Maori Tattoo
Meeting the Maori people of New Zealand
Fast and Furious: Dwayne Johnson and the Haka
Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive
Lenise Herbert, and the criticisms of SPOT and FACS
Catharsis Effect in Along Came Polly
Unit 8 Motivation, Emotion, and Stress Review
Unit 11: Intelligence
Simone Biles: Kinisthetic Brilliance and Hard Work!
Frontline Video: In the Age of AI
VIDEO: ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence, chatbots and a world of unknowns | 60 Minutes
Talk with ALICE the Pandorabot
Unit 13: Treatment
A brief and awful history of the lobotomy
VIDEO: PTSD Exposure Therapy 60 Minutes
VIDEO: Virtual Reality Used To Treat Mental Health Problems
VIDEO: PTSD: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
VIDEO: PTSD: Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy
Unit 1: Introduction
First Day of School and the Definition of Psychology
Watch how a dog helped one veteran conquer his PTSD
Autism: Stephen Wiltshire Draws Rome
Autism: Stephen Wiltshire draws New York
S. Wiltshire's London at Night
Neisser's Selective Attention (1975)
Inattentional Blindness (Daniel Simons 1998)
Facial Expressions (Paul Ekman)
Unit 3: Biology and Behavior/Thinking
Awake brain surgery (Inside Out longer film)
Neurobiology: The Neuron, System, and Brain
Summary of Neurotransmitter Types (THANK YOU MS. WEIBERG!)
A Really Cool German Video about the Workings of the Synapse
The Brainwave of the Action Potential
Temporal and Spatial Summation
Kids Health and the Endocrine System
Stress, The Hormone Cycle, and The Endocrine System
Introduction to Brain Structure and Function
2-Minute Neuroscience: The Ventricles
Optic Nerve and Language PICTURE
The man with the 7 second memory
Michael Gazzaniga and Split Brain Joe
60 Minutes: Face Blindness Part 1: Damage to Right Brain
60 Minutes: Face Blindness Part 2
Unit 5: Consciousness
VIDEO: Frontline: Chasing Heroin
DISCUSSION: Frontline: Chasing Heroin
VIDEO: Wall Street Journal: American Epidemic: The Nation's Struggle With Opioid Addiction
Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, 2000-2016
Significant Increase in Opioid Drug Overdose Data, 2016
Unit 7: Cognition and Memory
Elizabeth Loftus: The Misinformation Effect
Elizabeth Loftus: The Bunny Effect
Essay: Chomsky v. Skinner, and the Generative Nature of Language
Meyers Unit 7 Memory and Cognition Slideshare
VIDEO: Mandela Effect and Memory
Unit 9 and Unit 3c: Development
BBC: The Human Body at 6:00 minutes
2-Minute Neuroscience: Alzheimer's
VIDEO: Alzheimer's, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga
Mary Ainsworth and The Strange Situation
Assignment: Birth Order and Only Children
The Giraffe, Kubler-Ross, and Stages of Accepting Death
Carol Gilligan and Ethics of Care
NBC: Inside the safest school in America
When you're old you can be selfish
VIDEO: Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
VIDEO: Gilligan and Ethics of Care
Unit 10: Personality
Mandala Symbolism by Carl Jung (A Book)
The Marshmallow Effect and Delayed Gratification
TED, work, and Positive Psychology
REVIEW: Measuring Personality: Crash Course Psychology #22
Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology
Bipolar disorder manic episode
Auditory Hallucinations in a Schizophrenic's Mind
Five characteristics of Gerald
Paranoid Schizophrenia: Gerald Part 1
Paranoid S chizophrenia: Gerald Part 2
Louis Wain: Cute cats and pscyhadelia
Catatonia, flat affect, and waxy flexibility
PBS: C4 gene discovered for schizophrenia (2016)
NYT Completely Normal: Autism (Asberger's) and Tourette's - A friendship
Unit 14: Social Psychology
PBS: How poverty changes the brain
Feature Film - The Stanford Prison Experiment
Hollywood's Preview: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland: Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment
Solomon Asch's Conformity Experiment
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment
Diffusion and the Bystander Effect: The Death of Marques Gaines
Bystander Effect and Kitty Genovese
The Lucifer Effect: Abu Ghraib (at 5:20)
Unit 4: Sensation and Perception
Sensation Powerpoint (published)
MC Escher and Ideas of Perception
Ulric Neisser's Selective Attention Experiment
Dan Simons' Change Blindness and The Door Study
Checker Cube Illusion - Brightness Contrast
"Break your brain" optical illusions
The science of opioid withdrawal
The Dangers of Quitting Opiates Cold Turkey
A VIDEO: Miracle Tech Could Reverse Blindness
Revolutionary CRISPR Gene Editing Trial for Vision Loss at Mass Eye and Ear
BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Reverse Blindness [CRISPR Technology]
Unit 6: Learning
Classical Conditioning and the Chocolate Man Commercial
Classical Conditioning and the Danish Beer Commercial
John Watson is MEAN to Little Albert
Conditioning a dog for a nail tri m
Bandura and Observational Learning
The Big Bang Theory and Operant Conditioning
Aversive Conditioning of Bears
John Garcia, Taste, and Aversive Conditioning of Coyotes
Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion
Harry Harlow and Contact Comfort
VIDEO: AJ Hackett Bungee Jumping
VIDEO: The Sky Dive and Optimal Arousal
VIDEO: Thrill-Seekers Can Climb NYC Skyscraper In New Attraction
VIDEO: Daredevil on Scaling America’s Tallest Building: ‘No Idea What I Was Doing’
CDC Obesity and Diabetes Trends
Dying to be thin with Susan Sarandon
VIDEO: Mirror Neurons (4 minute review)
VIDEO: Resurgence of Maori Tattoo
VIDEO 2: Resurgence of Maori Tattoo
Meeting the Maori people of New Zealand
Fast and Furious: Dwayne Johnson and the Haka
Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive
Lenise Herbert, and the criticisms of SPOT and FACS
Catharsis Effect in Along Came Polly
Unit 8 Motivation, Emotion, and Stress Review
Unit 11: Intelligence
Simone Biles: Kinisthetic Brilliance and Hard Work!
Frontline Video: In the Age of AI
VIDEO: ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence, chatbots and a world of unknowns | 60 Minutes
Talk with ALICE the Pandorabot
Unit 13: Treatment
A brief and awful history of the lobotomy
VIDEO: PTSD Exposure Therapy 60 Minutes
VIDEO: Virtual Reality Used To Treat Mental Health Problems
VIDEO: PTSD: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
VIDEO: PTSD: Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy