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A video instructional series on introductory psychology’Highlighting major new developments in the field, this updated edition of Discovering Psychology offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior. Stanford University professor and author Philip Zimbardo narrates as leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body. Based on extensive investigation and authoritative scholarship, this introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review the subject matter.’Produced by WGBH Boston with the American Psychological Association. 1990, 2001. 1. Past, Present, and Promise2. Understanding Research3. The Behaving Brain4. The Responsive Brain5. The Developing Child6. Language Development7. Sensation and Perception8. Learning9. Remembering and Forgetting10. Cognitive Processes11. Judgement and Decision Making12. Motivation and Emotion13. The Mind Awake and Asleep14. The Mind Hidden and Divided15. The Self16. Testing and Intelligence17. Sex and Gender    18. Maturing and Aging19. The Power of the Situation20. Constructing Social Reality21. Psychopathology22. Psychotherapy23. Health, Mind, and Behavior24. Applying Psychology in Life25. Cognitive Neuroscience26. Cultural Psychology