What is Kurtosis?

In this video I explain the concept of kurtosis. I explain the terminology for kurtosis coined by Karl Pearson, a number of common misconceptions related to kurtosis, how kurtosis is calculated for a sample, and how kurtosis is interpreted for … Read More

Psychological Disorders Practice Questions

This video covers 10 practice multiple choice questions on psychological disorders and includes questions related to diagnosis, symptom types, specific disorders, and more. I hope this can help you to review your knowledge and understanding, let me know if you … Read More

Stress & Health Psychology Practice Questions

This video covers 10 practice multiple choice questions on stress & health psychology and includes questions related to immune function, personality, stress management, coping strategies, and more. I hope this can help you to review your knowledge and understanding, let … Read More

Treatment of Mental Illness Knowledge Organizer

Here’s a knowledge organizer I’ve created of the most essential terms for the treatment of mental illness in an introductory psychology course. These knowledge organizers are designed to help you identify the most important factual knowledge you need to have … Read More

Psychological Disorders Knowledge Organizer

Here’s a knowledge organizer I’ve created of the most essential terms for psychological disorders in an introductory psychology course. These knowledge organizers are designed to help you identify the most important factual knowledge you need to have in order to … Read More

Comparing Effectiveness & Lifestyle Factors

In this video I discuss comparing effectiveness of treatments as well as comparison with placebo, wait-list, and no treatment conditions. I also describe how lifestyle factors may play a role in mental illness and how positive lifestyle changes can help … Read More

Effectiveness of Treatment

In this video I discuss the difficulties of assessing the effectiveness of treatment. These include spontaneous remission, regression to the mean, nonspecific treatment effects, and biases which can influence patient and clinician perspectives on improvement. Disclaimer: This channel is for … Read More

Biomedical Approaches: Psychopharmacology

In this video I begin describing biomedical approaches to mental illness in more detail and focus on psychopharmacology. I describe some of the main mechanisms of antipsychotic, anti-anxiety, and antidepressant medications, along with the uses and potential side effects of … Read More

Personality Disorders, Psychopathy, & Sociopathy

In this video I describe the symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the DSM-5 category of Personality Disorders. I also briefly discuss differences between antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, and sociopathy and the Psychopathy Checklist created by Robert Hare. The … Read More