A Plethora of Plenty

Much as the last contest, I need movie entries from y'all. This time, we're talking movies for a general psychology class. It looks as if I'll be teaching an Honors class in general psych, and we'll be using movies as the basis for class discussion. Basically, we cover 6 main topic areas in the class, and we'll show a movie at the beginning of each topic area and spend the rest of the time discussion how class material and the movie material correspond and/or how the movie got it right/wrong. So, I need a good number of movies to pick from for each of five categories. I have already decided on the movie for the category of “Historical and Current Psychology”. We’ll be using the movie “Requiem for a Dream”. For the remaining five, I'll pick the best (in terms of the class) from each category. The winners from each category get a prize. What that prize is, I'm not sure yet. However, the categories are listed below, along with a more detailed explanation. Contest ends December 1st. Good luck!

Biology (or the brain, neurons, nervous system, and endocrine system) It appears that Amanda has the lock on this. She found a research article devoted to this very question (Wiertelak, E. (2002). And the winner is: Inviting Hollywood into the neuroscience classroom. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, A4-A17.

There are almost 100 movies in the list, and I'll be spending the next couple of days looking at and choosing from that list. In addition, many may work for the remaining categories, so if you are going to submit, do it fast.

Behaviorism (or learning through reward and punishment)

Cognitive (or thinking, problem solving, creativity, memory)

Developmental (Changes across the lifespan)

Personality (unconsciousness, Freudian concepts, Jung, why happy people stay happy)