Psychology at the Movies: A Psychological Review

Quick post this morning.  I found this really cool article from the American Psychological Society that talks about a website that critiques psychological conditions from a scientific and neurological perspective (it includes amnesia and Finding Nemo).

Here is the article link:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/obsonline/countering-neuromyths-in-the-movies.html

Here is the actual site, NeuroPsyFi:
http://www.neuropsyfi.com/

How cool a name is that!

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Movies and Psychology

When I attended a day-long seminar in the early 90s about critical thinking in the social sciences, I was instructed never to show an entire film during class time-that time was too valuable.  I abide by that advice to this day.  In class, I show film clips, but prefer documentaries.  I do have AP Psych Movie Nights outside of class time. 

However, the time after the AP exam often presents us with lots of time and low interest by our hard-working advanced students.  Given that reality, many of us will be showing films.  Following a recent thread on the AP-PSYCH listserv, I did a couple quick searches and rediscovered these gems.


APA Division 2's page with two resources

PsychMovies dot com (I posted about this site back in late 2009)
http://www.psychmovies.com/
Exceptional descriptions and overviews with ratings

APS guide to using film in teaching psychology
This is an excellent resource including steps to use in using film, solving ethical issues within the film, following copyright, and more.  Thank you Dr. Raymond J. Green.

Regardless of your views on the pedagogy of showing films, these are some excellent resources.


posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Ethics and the Teaching of Psychology

I found this article by Ana Ruiz on the Association for Psychological Science website that describes the ethical issues related to teaching several of the units that we will focus upon during our courses.  She discusses both ethical concerns on the part of instructors in addition to ethical questions to be asked during each topic.  The author also recommends further resources (which will be reviewed here later).

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APS Journal Free to High School Teachers

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is providing free online access to its journal, Current Directions in Psychological Science, to high school psychology teachers. To sign up or obtain more information go to https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/learn_more.cfm

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