Animal Studies Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
Animal Studies Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Activity Characteristics of Gibbons (Hylobates Lar): 1 -- Ecology and Maintenance Behavior More on DVD Version | Depicts the ecology of Hall's Island, Bermuda -- the location of a small free-ranging colony of white-handed gibbons. Introduces each gibbon, identifying its special characteristics, and looks at the gibbon's daily activity cycle: foraging for plant and animal foods, reacting to new food objects, drinking patterns, grooming, resting, and sleeping. Produced by C.R. Carpenter. From the C.R. Carpenter Primate Studies series. |
| Biology, Brain, and Behavior: Analysis of Behavior More on DVD Version | This video workbook gives viewers an exercise in observing and interpreting the subtleties of animal behavior. During an unbroken, unnarrated sequence that captures the interaction among gulls in a group, viewers write down their descriptions of the behavior patterns of the focal bird. Then the sequence is replayed, explaining what went on among the birds and stressing the importance in all animal studies of looking for the sometimes barely discernible behavior patterns. |
| Animal Studies in the Social Modification of Organically Motivated Behavior Parts 1 & 2 More on DVD Version | Silent c 1938 O H Mowrer Yale University 1938. Part 1 shows a competitive situation (involving food) in which rats develop a striking form of sharing, or "altruistic" behavior. Part II shows another type of situation in which competitive behavior becomes increasingly severe instead of developing into sharing. Displaced aggression, hoarding, and other socially significant phenomena are shown. The film is intended as a pedagogical device for exemplifying how social situations pattern behavior. PCR-24 |
| Studies Upon the Behavior of the Human Infant: Experimental Investigation of Babies More on DVD Version | aka Little Albert, Authentic film documentation of classic condition experiment by John B Watson and Rosalie Raynor, filmed in 1920. The experiment was undertaken to answer three questions: 1) Can an infant be conditioned to fear an animal that appears simultaneously with a loud, fear-arousing sound? 2) Would such fear transfer to other animals or inanimate objects? 3) how long would such fear persist? Subject, Albert B, a healthy 9-month baby, was selected and "conditioned" to fear different objects including a white rat, white rabbit, white bearded man, and dog. Film also includes reflex demonstrations of newborn infant preceding experiment footage. Produced by C H Stoelting Company. silent © University of Akron 1999 |
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