Dr. Anne Mclaughlin spoke for the North Carolina State University Psychology Department’s Teaching Undergraduates brownbag series. The title of her talk was The Magic of using Podcasts in Teaching Psychology. During the talk, Dr. Mclaughlin provided excellent examples of how and why integrating podcasts in the classroom may be a good idea. Additionally, she provided a comprehensive list of podcast stations that could be used as supplements for specific areas in psychology (see below for the list).
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Dr. Mclaughlin’s List of Podcasts for Teaching Psychology:
Aging
Applied Psychology
Cognitive development
Cognitive Heuristics
Cognitive maps
Comparative psychology
- Crafty orangatan
- Lucy the chimp
- Kanzi the bonobo
- Alex the Parrot – Fresh Air
- Consciousness
- What makes us human
- What do rats not know (and some humans) (14:00)
Development of Expertise
Emotion
Environmental Influences on Behavior
Ethics
- Unibomber was in a “stress experiment” as an undergrad
- Publishing and Perishing
- Psychopaths, genetics, and prison sentences
- Fake Science
Gender
Human Factors
Language development
Mental Health
- Schizophrenia
- Interviewing people with schizophrenia
- OCD
- False memories – Loftus interview
- Recovered memories
- Prosopagnosia (Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close)
- Addiction (gambling)
- Repetition
- Capgras syndrome (Night of the Living Dead)
- Personality change due to stroke
- Sleep paralysis
- Psychopath test
- Down syndrome
Memory
Motor Cognition
- basal ganglia and facial control
- Microexpressions (Ekman)
Neuroimaging
Perception
- Color Perception
- Perfect Pitch – Mandarin vs. English
- Misperception of one’s own voice
- Evolution of the eye
- Woman successfully hides that she’s missing an arm
Perception of time – Flow
Social Psychology
- Milgrim years later
- Abu Gairab and the Stanford Prison Experiment
- Conformity pressures on a NY Police officer
- Performing for a job changes a man’s personality
