When one of her founders needed to take maternity leave, Claire Diaz-Ortiz stepped in to run her company. Learn the benefits of building your career collaboratively as more companies embrace new work models and technology supports remote...

David Rosenhan's landmark experiment tests the boundaries of mental illness, and the diagnosis of psychiatric conditions. A decade after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was published, Rosenhan brought distopian fiction to life.

Is depression a disability? In this video we discuss Beck's Negative Triad and Stress-Diathesis Theory as well as other theories of depression. At the end we discuss some depression causes, including biological and social factors. In...

We all experience those moments where we can't remember the one piece of information we need. Maybe it's someone's name in a social setting, or an important fact for an exam essay. Whatever it is, you're certainly not alone in sometimes...

This video is the ninth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

This video is the fourth installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

Elizabeth Loftus has contributed a huge body of work to Psychology on the topic of eye witness testimony. In this video, we explore why our memory isn't always as good as we think it is, and what implications this can have on eye witness...

Learn about Stanley Milgram's landmark 1961 experiment on obedience to authority. Also known as the electric shock experiment.

Experimental designs make a huge impact on the validity of an experiment's results. In this video, we explore the three main types of experimental design used in Psychology experiments: 1) Repeated Measures 2) Independent Groups 3)...

The question of what intelligence actually is has intrigued Psychologists and Philosophers for thousands of years. We use intelligence as a measure of people's abilities and potential in day-to-day life, but how many of us have actually...

How did psychology start? This video outlines the history of psychology, from its origins in Germany with the work of Wilhelm Wundt, through into Functionalism (William James), past Freud and his Psychodynamic approach, onto Behaviourism...

Validity is a key concept in research methods. It can be broken down into two umbrella categories: internal validity and external validity. 1) Internal validity considers factors within the design of the experiment. 2) External validity...

This video explores a classic observational study of non-traditional parenting. Bettelheim (1964) spent 7 weeks on a Kibbutz studying communal parenting.

It was the Ancient Greeks who first started talking about temperament. They put temperamental differences down to predominant body fluids. After a hiatus of more than 1000 years, modern-day Psychologists have returned to the question of...

Memory is a fickle friend and so much of what we think we remember actually never happened. This video introduces a series of fascinating psychology studies into false recall - use these studies to enhance your essays on the reliability...

Our ability to predict the weather, though still imperfect, would astound our ancestors. And decades of improvements in weather satellite technology, driven by teams of fiercely dedicated scientists and engineers, have made that...

Abnormal is a word with a lot of stigma about it in general conversation. In psychology, it's used with specific meanings. This video outlines four criteria by which someone might be considered to be functioning abnormally.

Why do people forget things? Could it be that the memory never made it to Long Term Memory and therefore doesn't exist? Or is it due to a retrieval failure - it's somewhere in there but you can't access it right now?

Everybody lies. However there are different types of lying. This video explores research on "paltering" - lying by telling the truth. This intriguing form of lying can be perceived as the most unethical, and can lead to significant...

When my friend Emma said she was addicted to Pepsi Max, the first thing I did was laugh. But then I looked into it and realised that Western societies in Europe and America may well have a fizzy drink addiction problem! So what is...

We've all been told that it's dangerous to drive whilst on the phone, but what's the evidence to back this up? It turns out that not only is it dangerous to text and talk on a handheld mobile phone, it's equally dangerous to chat with...

Inpsired by Piaget's constructivist stages, Lawrence Kohlberg set about discovering the stages of moral development. He uncovered three levels, which he subdivided into six stages of moral development.

Human babies take a longer time to form attachments than other animals. This video introduces you to Schaffer and Emerson's (1964) four stages of attachment - based on their classic observational study of 60 children in Glasgow, Scotland.

This video is the second installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.