Psychology: Videos

This program traces the history of cognitive psychology. It explores the interactions among consciousness, sensation, attention, perception, memory models, decision making, language, and thought. The program also discusses cognitive neuroscience in animals and humans.

Join the father of Positive Psychology in this session as we explore the world history of Agency and its relation to the past, present, and future of Positive Psychology, Positive Education, and Positive Psychotherapy. Highlighted concepts will include PERMA, Causal Intervention, Well-being, Future Mindedness, Learned Optimism, and Learned Helplessness, among others. How are the Age of Progress and Positive Psychology related? What possibilities could arise from effectively using Positive Psychology in overcoming personal and global challenges? Attendees will be able to define, understand, and potentially implement Positive Psychology in their professional setting.

Patients may be challenged to effectively cope in numerous situations, resulting in impaired mental health that manifests as fear, anxiety, and depression. Nurses providing care to these patients require skills and strategies to safely and effectively equip patients with resources to increase their coping abilities.

In this video, 4 Paths to a Psychologically Safe Workplace, you will learn to develop a psychologically safe organization or team where people feel safe to speak up, point out problems and tell the truth. It’s an essential pre-requisite for a high performance team and results in lower staff turnover so the high performers are more likely to stay. This video provides an understanding of psychological safety and why it is important, how to assess your own team or workplace, how to provide the right leadership and take care of virtual teams and the need to monitor threats to psychological safety.

This recording, led by positive psychologist and author Jonah Paquette, will explore how the principles of awe and gratitude can combine to offer us a powerful approach to healing, even amidst challenging times.

Psychological research is governed by a strict code of ethics covering things like obtaining participants’ consent; protecting them from possible harm and allowing them to withdraw from the research. But there are some “participants” who can’t give consent, may be harmed and are unable to withdraw from the research. Using research examples, this film looks at the use of non-human animals in research. Why are they used? What are the benefits? What is being done to protect them? And, is any research with non-human animals a breach of their ‘rights’?