(1 - 27 of 27 programmes)
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Donald Broadbent and the Cocktail Party
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Available since Tue, 1 May 2012.
Claudia Hammond examines the legacy the psychologist who launched the cognitive revolution
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Julian Rotter and Locus of Control
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Available since Mon, 30 Apr 2012.
Claudia meets Julian Rotter, who promoted personality theory in clinical psychology.
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Joseph Wolpe and Systematic Desensitization
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Available since Mon, 23 Apr 2012.
Exploring Joseph Wolpe's development of a treatment for patients with phobias.
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Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony
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Available since Sun, 24 Apr 2011.
Claudia Hammond with more experiments that changed our understanding of the human mind.
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Henri Tajfel's Minimal Groups
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Available since Sun, 6 Mar 2011.
Claudia Hammond with more experiments that changed our understanding of the human mind.
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Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Study
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Available since Sun, 20 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond with more experiments that changed our understanding of the human mind.
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Case Study: Dora - The Girl Who Walked Out on Freud
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Available since Wed, 1 Sep 2010.
The story of Dora, Freud's first case history, which he used to explain infant sexuality.
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Case Study: SB - The Man Who Was Disappointed with What He Saw
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Available since Wed, 25 Aug 2010.
The story of SB, who had his sight restored after over 50 years of blindness.
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Case Study: John/Joan - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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Available since Wed, 18 Aug 2010.
The case that for years apparently proved that nurture not nature dictates gender identity
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Case Study: HM - The Man Who Couldn't Remember
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Available since Wed, 11 Aug 2010.
A man known as HM provided the key to one of the mysteries of the human brain.
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Arden House
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Available since Tue, 18 Aug 2009.
Claudia Hammond revisits Langer and Rodin's 1976 Arden House study.
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Harlow's Monkeys
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Available since Mon, 10 Aug 2009.
Revisiting Harry Harlow's surrogate mothers experiment, which revolutionised parenting.
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The Hawthorne Effect
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Available since Mon, 3 Aug 2009.
The 1920s experiment in a Chicago factory that gave rise to the Hawthorne Effect.
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The Pseudo-Patient Study
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Available since Mon, 27 Jul 2009.
Claudia Hammond revisits David Rosenhan's Pseudo-Patient Study.
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Case Study: Little Hans
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Available since Tue, 12 Apr 2011.
A small boy's phobia of horses seemed unlikely evidence for the Oedipus complex.
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Case Study: The Man with a Hole in His Head
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Available since Tue, 12 Apr 2011.
Phineas Gage was a railway worker in 19th-century Vermont who survived a bizarre accident.
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Case Study: The Wild Boy of Aveyron
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Available since Tue, 12 Apr 2011.
In 1800, 12-year-old Victor emerged from the woods, naked and behaving like an animal.
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Case Study: Kitty Genovese
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Available since Tue, 12 Apr 2011.
A brutal killing led to the naming of the phenomenon known as Bystander Effect.
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The Bobo Doll
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Available since Tue, 22 Feb 2011.
Albert Bandura's experiment in 1961 exposed the dangers of imitative behaviour.
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The Heinz Dilemma
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Available since Tue, 22 Feb 2011.
Lawrence Kohlberg's experiment to quantify the human capacity for ethical reasoning.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Available since Tue, 22 Feb 2011.
When Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison, he had no idea what he would witness.
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Hans Eysenck
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Available since Mon, 28 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond looks at Hans Eysenck's studies of introvert and extrovert personalities.
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Mary Ainsworth
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Available since Mon, 28 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond looks at Mary Ainsowrth's research on the parent-child relationship.
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John Watson and Little Emotional Albert
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Available since Mon, 28 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond profiles JB Watson, the psychologist considered the father of behaviourism
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Sir Frederic Bartlett – The War of the Ghosts
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Available since Thu, 24 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond looks at memory and the Chinese whispers experiment by Frederic Bartlett.
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Jean Piaget – The Three Mountains
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Available since Thu, 24 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond asks if Jean Piaget's findings about children's egocentrism are accurate.
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Solomon Asch - Conformity
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Available since Thu, 24 Feb 2011.
Claudia Hammond looks at the conformity experiments of social psychologist, Solomon Asch.
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