Visual Learning Systems
Senses: Video Review
Whether it is the sight of colorful flowers, or the smell of freshly baked cookies, our senses are constantly at work. Breathtaking video footage and three-dimensional animations illustrate how complex sensory organs function. Special...
Visual Learning Systems
Senses: Receptors in the Skin
Whether it is the sight of colorful flowers, or the smell of freshly baked cookies, our senses are constantly at work. Breathtaking video footage and three-dimensional animations illustrate how complex sensory organs function. Special...
Crash Course
Sensation & Perception
To introduce the concept of how sensation influences perception, the narrator of this psychology course, the fifth in a series of 13 videos, presents the case of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a physician that suffers from prosopagnosia. Also known...
Crash Course
Consciousness
Conscious, unconscious, subconscious? Consciousness is the focus of the eighth video in a psychology course, and for his purposes, the narrator defines consciousness as "our awareness of ourselves and our environment." Aspects examined...
Crash Course
Perceiving is Believing
How perception is influenced comes under scrutiny in Part 7 of this 13-part psychology course. The narrator introduces the lecture by defining perceptions as "the ability to make meaning out of our senses" and then discusses the...