Twenty-six episodes on 7 discs. This updated edition highlights new developments in the field, offering an overview of classic and current theories of human behavior. Leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body. Based on extensive investigation and superior scholarship, this introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation.

Disc 1. 1. Past, present, and promise -- 2. Understanding research -- 3. The behaving brain -- 4. The responsive brain. Disc 2. 5. The developing child -- 6. Language development -- 7. Sensation and perception -- 8. Learning -- Disc 3. 9. Remembering and forgetting -- 10. Cognitive processes -- 11. Judgment and decision making -- 12. Motivation and emotion -- Disc 4. 13. The mind awake and asleep -- 14. The mind hidden and divided -- 15. The self -- 16. Testing and intelligence -- Disc 5. 17. Sex and gender -- 18. Maturing and aging -- 19. The power of the situation -- 20. Constructing social reality -- Disc 6. 21. Psychopathology -- 22. Psychotherapy -- 23. Health, mind, and behavior -- 24. Applying psychology in life -- Disc 7. 25. Cognitive neuroscience -- 26. Cultural psychology.