Although the idea of variables can seem dull and uninspiring, they are crucial because they're everywhere in psychology. This film provides a clear introduction to this concept, explaining and illustrating the key questions of definition, types, reliability, validity and application.
Every day, people see 88 years old Feng and 87 years old Lou going out hand in hand to practice Tai Chi. Hardly could anybody tell that Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease for almost 10 years. Please Remember me is an internationally acclaimed profile of an elderly Chinese couple facing the twilight…
Psychologists have told us a lot about human behaviour, but can we trust the findings? This film looks at the part played by reliability and validity in helping to answer this question. Reliability and external and internal validity are explained and the key tests of face, concurrent and ecological…
Dramatic, moving and insightful, ARMSTRONG tells the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio, through aerial combat in Korea, to his first steps on the Moon - and the unwanted celebrity status that ensued. It is the story of a quiet determined man who became an aviator,…
Inside The Soundtrack 48 minutes Behind-the-scenes as composer/sound designer Chris Gestrin spends a day gathering ambient recordings, followed by two recording studio days creating the soundtrack for a non-linear experiential film set on the passenger ferries of the Pacific Northwest. Inside…
Little Willie Eason takes the stage of the street and a House of God church south of Miami with his talking, gospel, steel guitar, and performs in a musical style he pioneered in the 1920s that reached its pinnacle in a stirring tribute to the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The film premiered at the…
Canadian historians pride themselves on being friends of the little people. Unlike the Great Man histories of our colonial parent and imperial neighbour, the key events in our past are often depicted from the point of view of regular folk caught up in the vast winds of change. Ah, but there’s the…
This film explores an interactionist approach to obesity: Part 1: shows how cultural and environmental changes have altered our relationship with food and created an ‘obesogenic environment’. But why isn’t everyone obese? …
After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick\ themselves up, after all. Sweet Smoke of the Fatherland begins with these lines from the poem ‘The End and the Beginning’ by the Polish Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska. The documentary tells the story of three old…
Sampling is crucial in psychology but can be difficult to understand. This film offers a helping hand with a series of visual images that take students through target population, samples, representativeness and generalisability. It then looks at how sampling is done, illustrating differences between…
Two men from East Germany come together in a historic reconciliation; one was a dissident who was sent to prison, the other spied on him for the Stasi. Today, with access to secret Stasi files, the two men begin to revisit their painful past and reflect on their differing roles in the regime. What unfolds…
Correlations are relationships and this film begins by illustrating how the strength and direction of those relationships is measured. It then uses real research studies to illustrate the uses of correlations, their limitations and how easily correlation data can be misused.
