Past Programs
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The Imaginative Child
31/12/2005
The joy of playing with a pre-school child is the joy of make-believe. A teacup becomes a telephone; a rocking horse morphs into a dragon; the table and chairs construct a castle. 'How?' 'Why?' and 'What?' are the child's most frequent questions and their imagination is often the place where they find the answers. But does the young imagination play a more substantial role in a child's cognitive development? Does it give us tools for real world analysis well into adulthood? On All in the Mind this week Gretchen Miller explores the power of imaginative little minds.
This program was first broadcast on 21/5/05
Great Mind Changers (Part 2) - Sir Frederic Bartlett on Memory
26/02/2005
This week, a chance to travel back in time with another great experiment in the history of psychology. Our understanding of memory, and its profound fallibility and fragility, was radically changed by renowned British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett - all thanks to a benign game of Chinese Whispers...and a ghost story. NB: Copyrighted audio for this program is on the BBC's website - see more info
Great Mind Changers (Part 1) - Jean Piaget on Childrens' Minds
19/02/2005
This week, a chance to travel back in time with the first of two retrospectives on great historical experiments that redefined psychology. Jean Piaget is perhaps the 20th century's best known child psychologist. His work was to pave the path for our understanding of the complexities of the developing mind, and how we approach learning in the classroom. But where did Piaget's own journey begin? NB: Copyrighted audio for this program is on the BBC's website - see more info
The Power of Music (Part 2): In Medicine
29/01/2005
This week - the power of music to heal. Guest BBC broadcaster Jane Hanson takes you to some of the cutting edge clinics throughout the world where mainstream is medicine is recognising the therapeutic potential of music. From a sports hospital in Germany to clinics in Mysore, India, and finally to the famous Beth Abraham hospital in New York, where patients with motor impaired and degenerative illnesses have access to their own state-of-the-art recording studio as part of their treatment!
The Power of Music (Part 1): In Life
22/01/2005
This week - the first in 2 programs exploring the extraordinary psychological power of music. It can make you laugh, dance, and even weep - but did you know that music can have a decisive influence on how you spend your money? From increasing the milk yield in cows, to the influential strains of classical music in the English and Indian metro systems, BBC broadcaster Jane Hanson investigates the persuasive force of music in our lives.
