Summary: William James, more than anyone else, was responsible for introducing the wide range of topics that now make up the broad field of psychology. This program presents some of James’s most important formulations, including his discussions of habit, consciousness, will, and religious experience, as well as what he referred to as the fringe of experience: the hunches, inexpressible feelings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Daughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373Summary: This program brings to life five of psychology's most significant studies: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram's Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth's Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, 1973; and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony Experiment, 1974. Footage from the original experiments and from contemporary reconstructions is featured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Better self-control begins with an understanding of the psychological factors that affect behavior. Section one of this program focuses on the influence of brain structure, brain chemistry, and genetics on behavior; section two illustrates key concepts of psychoanalytic theory; and section three distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. Strengths and limitations of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDEakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONSons of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774Summary: This program presents non-experimental research methods-questionnaires, interviews, and naturalistic observation-through three studies on the effects of cell phone use. Section one explains good questionnaire design while considering both the advantages and limitations of this method. Section two examines the use of unstructured interviews, a more nuanced approach to data collection. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAKCall number: CD 970 EAK PART 2
Barbellion, W. N. P.
Summary: "Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARBELLION, W.N.P. BARSummary: "The latest research shows that people almost never "rise to the occasion" when faced with a life-threatening challenge, regardless of how often we hear that phrase. Instead, as Professor Nancy Zarse explains in the 12 empowering lectures of Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive, people generally revert to their lowest level of training and preparation. And Professor Zarse knows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 ZARKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. But is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 KEPBecker-Phelps, Leslie
Summary: "Love: The Psychology of Attraction is an easy-to-navigate, step-by-step guide to modern love that's grounded in scientific study, psychological expertise, and practical insights about romance in the age of social media. Crack the code of compatibility and find the path to true love with this unique guide to finding the perfect mate in the modern world. Love: The Psychology of Attraction offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 BECThaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PRODaughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 DAUSummary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Miller, Adrian
Summary: "Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eatingit; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller--admitted 'cuehead and longtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.76 MILSummary: Mary Ainsworth’s 'Strange Situation' is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. This program details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns that are captured by the controlled observational techniques of the 'Strange Situation.' Using archival footage (including the Harlow primate studies) and newer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Chamblain, Joris
Summary: Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She's been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one special secret, Cici figures, and if you want to write about people, you need to understand what's hiding inside them. But now she's discovered something truly strange: an old man who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint in all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores two great ancient Mexican civilizations, the war-like Aztecs and the peaceful Mayans, both of which have left a legacy in legend and architecture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAYSmithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOSummary: Drawing upon laboratory and field experiments, this program compares and contrasts experimental research methods through an attractiveness study involving young adults. Section one observes how subjects respond to photos in two lab environments-one comfortable, and one not. Then, section two repeats the experiment in two field locales: a trendy bar and a dull coffee shop. Does context make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009