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Perception and Action
Item Number: 4050330
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Perception and Action
This video focuses on the study of similarities and differences in people and other animals in their sensation and perception of the world, and how this research advances our understanding of sensory processes, perception, and action. The video opens with the narrator describing how research with nonhuman animals provides psychologists with a comparative perspective analagous to that used by scientists in other areas, for example, astronomy and biology.
A montage of several researchers, who represent not only comparative psychology (Drs. Robert Cook and Herbert Roitblat) but also developmental cognitive neuropsychology (Dr. Adele Diamond) and human factors (Dr. D. A. (Fred) Owens), reinforces the opening statement. Each psychologist briefly introduces the type of basic question or problem his or her research addresses. These researchers are interested in understanding the basic principles, processes, and mechanisms of perception and action as well as the ways in which the research findings have applications to real-life problems. The video provides examples of how some of these applications were unanticipated when the research, driven by questions of basic research interest, was first started. The contributions and importance of employing animals to investigate basic psychological questions is emphasized. |
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Psychopharmacology
Item Number: 4050001
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Psychopharmacology
This video focuses on the importance of research with laboratory animals in the field of psychopharmacology. Psychopharmacology (or behavioral pharmacology) is the study of the effects of psychoactive drugs on behavior. By combining methods of psychology and pharmacology, psychologists have productively examined behavioral effects of drugs in laboratory animals and people. The central theme running through psychopharmacological research is that principles of behavior can be used to understand and predict drug effects. The video highlights three leading areas of psychopharmacological research with laboratory animals--drug abuse liability testing, drug abuse treatment and prevention, and inhalant abuse and prevention.
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