Archival Films & Recordings
The CCHP provides archival films and audio recordings from the . These materials include interviews, laboratory footage, and presentations from eminent psychologists and social scientists.
These videos are intended for educational use and may not be reproduced elsewhere.
To view the full catalog of the Moving Images and Sound Recordings collections, visit our . To request access to a film not included in the list below, please contact ahap@uakron.edu.
Audio excerpt from a debriefing session conducted between researchers and participants of the Stanford Prison Experiment. A member of the research team talks the group through the ethical dilemma at the heart of this—and many other—social psychology experiments.
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Length: 4 minutes
Originally recorded: ca. 1970s
In this series of five recordings, psychologist Richard Evans interviews Carl Jung in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Length: 5 videos, 241 minutes total
Originally recorded: August 6-8, 1957
This excerpt from the March of Time series discusses the state of mental health care in the years following World War II and highlights the National Institute of Mental Health, which had been founded in 1946. It also provides a look at training for psychiatrists in the 1950s.
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Length: 9 minutes
Originally recorded: 1951
Film footage from Kurt Lewin's famous studies of the effects of different types of leadership on the social climate of groups. Lewin compared the effects of autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire leadership, a topic that was of vast importance in the years during and after World War II.
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Length: 12 minutes
Originally recorded: ca. 1940s
This film footage from the 1930s shows early studies of maze learning, problem solving, and insight in white rats at the University of Berlin.
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Length: 3 minutes
Originally recorded: ca. 1930s
Film footage of John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner's classical conditioning experiment, in which a baby, dubbed “Little Albert,” was conditioned to fear particular animals and objects.
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Length: 4 minutes
Originally recorded: ca. 1920s.
This film provides an inside look at the work of Eckhard Hess, who famously replicated Konrad Lorenz's imprinting studies in a controlled laboratory setting and outdoors. Viewers see a duckling following a fabricated wooden mallard.
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Length: 3 minutes
Originally recorded: Undated
Film footage depicting the use of intelligence testing at the School for Feebleminded Girls and Boys in Vineland, New Jersey. Henry H. Goddard headed the Research Laboratory at Vineland from 1906 through 1918.
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Length: 2 minutes
Originally recorded: Undated