Sophia Learning
Sophia: Memory and Forgetting
This lesson will explain forgetting and describe the strategies used to avoid it.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Memory Process
This lesson will identify types of memory and describe how each contributes to how memory occurs. Also described is how memory is encoded as it is received, stored, and retrieved.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nature vs. Nurture: Lesson 6
This lesson examine the nature vs. nurture debate. Personality and socialization will be defined. Freud's model of personality explained. It is 6 of 6 in the series titled "Nature vs. Nurture."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Neurons Communication Action Potential
This lesson will describe the process of neuronal communication as neural impulses generated and transmitted from one neuron to another.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Neuron Communication Synapses and Neurotransmitters
This lesson will define neurotransmitter, synapse, and receptor sites and explain their functions in neural impulses and types of neurotransmitters,.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
This lesson will define, describe the origin, and delineate the significance of repression and the unconscious in psychoanalytic theory.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital Lobes
This lesson will identify, classify and discuss the functions of the parietal lobes and primary somatosensory area. The temporal Lobes, primary auditory area, and Wernicke's area will be defined, delineated and discussed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Memory Retrieval and Environment
This lesson will examine and describe availability and accessibility in memory.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Memory Retrieval and Interference
This lesson will define interference and distinguish retroactive interference from proactive interference in learning. Also examined are the roles of repression, suppression, and consolidation in memory.
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #22: Measuring Personality
Crash Course video [11:08] in which Hank Green discusses the "self" and how we measure personality.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: Is Your Personality Fixed, or Can You Change Who You Are
The marshmallow test became the poster child for the idea that there are specific personality traits that are stable and consistent. And this drives Walter Mischel crazy. "That iconic story is upside-down wrong," Mischel says. "That your...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nervous System Central and Peripheral
This lesson will differentiate the Central Nervous System (CNS) from the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). The functions of the brain and spinal cord within the Central Nervous System (CNS) will be discussed.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Similarity
This video lesson from Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges provides study content for the MCAT. This resource discusses how people are drawn to one another when they share similarities.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Psychoanalytic Theory
This video lesson for the MCAT explores the topic of Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and the different structures of our mind that contribute to our personality.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Behavior: Theories of Personality: Humanistic Theory
A major branch of psychology is Humanism. Learn what the humanistic theorists have to say about how we develop our personality. [6:06]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Measuring Memory
This lesson will define, explain and analyze the role of recall, serial position effect, recognition memory, and relearning in remembering.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nature vs. Nurture: Lesson 3
This lesson examine the nature vs. nurture debate. Personality and socialization will be defined. Freud's model of personality explained. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled "Nature vs. Nurture."