STOSSEL TESTING THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
A fantastic example of the application of the scientific method to the claims of quackery! Featuring Emily Rosa, the youngest person ever to publish in the prestigious JAMA -- Journal of the American Medical Association.
THE BARNUM EFFECT
The Barnum Effect is used as an example of the representativeness heuristic in the text.
Prosopagnosia
Short clip of a woman with prosopagnosia---the inability to recognize faces.
The Eye & Vision
This is an edited clip that describes the physiology of the eye and some of the cool properties of our visual system.
RECONSTRUCTING MEMORIES
A clip on how memories, rather than played back like a video tape, are reconstructed.
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MEMORY - Loftus on shopping mall experiment
Elisabeth Loftus mini lecture on the shopping mall experiment.
Contemporary Phineas Gage
Research in effects of frontal lobe damage on judgments and decision making.
A Movie about Suicide
Young Emily has some issues including her awful parents, gangsta boyfriend, terrible friends, and kill joy of a guardian angel. But hopefully her angel, "cool" psychologist, and that random priest over there can show her life is worth it. Our semester project for morality class showing the Catholic Church's teaching on suicide.
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Rouge / Lipstick Mirror Test Gone Wild- 13 months old's Psychology "Experiment"
We had too much time on our hands after dinner on Thanksgiving Day.... A mock rouge test with my laptop video cam monitoring window serving as a mirror by which we could view our image after we placed lipstick on my 13-month-old niece's nose. Not intended to be a replication of the classic Rouge Test studies, but just some family fun. Enjoy!
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The Rouge Test with a 17 1/2 month-old
The rouge test is a commonly used assessment of self-recognition. If the individual goes to wipe off the makeup, then it is evidence that he/she recognizes the image in the mirror as his/her own reflection. Since the subject is still younger than 18 months, it is not surprising that she does not attempt to touch her own forehead when seeing the red spot on the "other girl's" head. I plan to post a follow-up video once she "passes" the test.