Episode Guide

1. Past, Present, and Promise — Discover psychology, a fascinating science at the crossroads of subjects, including philosophy, anthropology, biochemistry, and artificial intelligence.

2. Understanding Research — The scientific method, data collection and analysis, and the value of critical thinking in interpreting research findings are presented.

3. The Behaving Brain — Scientists explain the biochemical reactions that determine our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

4. The Responsive Brain — This program explores the relationship between the brain’s own structure and function, and feedback from the environment.

5. The Developing Child — The impact of heredity and environment on children’s development illuminates the age-old nature vs. nurture debate.

6. Language Development — How children develop complex language skills and use language in social communication is presented.

7. Sensation and Perception — This program focuses on how we process information, transforming raw sensory data into meaningful impressions.

8. Learning — Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner demonstrate the principles of classical and operant conditioning.

9. Remembering and Forgetting — This program takes a look at how all experiences become memory, why we forget, and how we can improve our memory.

10. Cognitive Processes — Explores the higher mental processes–reasoning, planning, and problem solving.

11. Judgment and Decision Making — This program examines the psychology of risk taking and negotiation—why and how we make judgments and decisions.

12. Motivation and Emotion — Aspects of motivation are revealed in studies of sexual behavior and the power of optimistic beliefs.

13. The Mind Awake and Asleep — In this episode, explore the nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness.

14. The Mind Hidden and Divided — Case studies of multiple personality and split-brain patients and examples of hypnosis demonstrate the subconscious.

15. The Self — This program explores the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself.

16. Testing and Intelligence — Psychological testing reveals how values are assigned to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities.

17. Sex and Gender — Find out how men and women are psychologically different, and see how sex roles reflect social values.

18. Maturing and Aging — This program focuses on physical and psychological aging, and shows how society reacts

19. The Power of the Situation — Discover how situational forces can manipulate beliefs and behavior and how to interpret human behavior within context.

20. Constructing Social Reality — Understanding how mental processes color our interpretations of reality may help us deal with society.

21. Psychopathology — Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are defined and explored.

22. Psychotherapy — Learn about the treatment of psychological disorders and attitudes toward the mentally ill.

23. Health, Mind, and Behavior — Examine the relationship between mind and body and learn about a new bio-psycho-social theoretical model.

24. In Space, Toward Peace — Arms negotiations, the stress of space travel, and responses to nuclear war illustrate modern psychology.

25. A Union of Opposites — This program presents a yin-yang model of complementary opposites, such as the nature-nurture dynamic.

26. New Directions — Prominent psychologists discuss the future of the field, new directions in research, theory, and application.