ShortCutsTv's Films

The Ethics of Abortion

• Documentary
• Short

The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of the...

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Rethinking Moral Panics

• Documentary
• Short

How the "Cannibal Killing" of Tim McLean led Canadian Sociologist Heidi Rimke to rethink Stan Cohen's seminal analysis of Moral Panics.

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New Religion: alternative spiritualities

• Documentary
• Short

In this short film students are introduced to the concept of New Religious Movements through well-established examples such as Scientology and the Moo...

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Religion: What It Is and What It Does

• Documentary
• Short

This short film, featuring Professor Eileen Barker, introduces and illustrates two of the most significant ways to define religion: the substantive, w...

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Crime and Social Theory

• Documentary
• Series

Volume 2 of our Shortcuts to Crime series looks at three sociological theories of crime and deviance under the general heading of Crime and Social The...

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Sociology: Crime and Marxism [Free]

• Documentary
• Short

A one-minute explanation of Marxist perspectives on crime and deviance.

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Space, Place and (Broken) Windows

• Documentary
• Series

The final short film in the CAST (Crime and Social Theory) series introduces and examines the notion of environmental criminology – the idea social sp...

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Rethinking Obesity

• Documentary
• Short

As a species we’ve been getting larger and obesity is at epidemic proportions in some Western societies. So why are we doing so much damage to ourselv...

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Key Issues in Psychological Research

• Documentary
• Series

This film explores some of the Issues surrounding psychological research in three key areas: Ethics, Socially Sensitive Research and Ethnocentrism.

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The Agouti Mouse Study

• Documentary
• Short

Jirtle and Waterland's groundbreaking work has been described as one of the most important study's of the 21st century. In this film we explain why.

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Beyond Genetics

• Documentary
• Feature

How Epigenetics is changing our understanding of the nature - nurture debate

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Jim Fallon: Natural Born Killer?

• Documentary
• Feature

This film explores and updates the nature- nurture debate using neuroscientist Jim Fallon's research into the brains of serial killers as the basis fo...

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Beyond Milgram: Obedience and Identity

• Documentary
• Feature

Featuring Professors Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher, "Beyond Milgram" takes a new look at Milgram's classic "obedience experiments" and offers a new in...

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Psychology Classics: False Memory

• Documentary
• Feature

Divided into three complementary sections (Recovered Memories, Lost in the Mall and Guided Imagination), False Memory features original interview foot...

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Behind the Statistics

• Documentary
• Series

Behind the Statistics looks at how statistical data is collected, compared and explained through an examination of three key issues in this process: s...

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Experimental Research Methods

• Documentary
• Series

3 films (Laboratory Experiments, Field Experiments and Naturalistic Experiments) designed to illustrate a range of different experimental research met...

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Non-Experimental Research Methods

• Documentary
• Feature

3 films (Naturalistic Observation, Self Report Methods and Case Studies) designed to illustrate non-experimental research methods in Psychology.

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Methods: Experimental Design

• Action
• Short

What's the most effective time of day for students to learn new material?
We begin with this research question to give practical illustrations of th...

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Methods: Laboratory Experiments

• Documentary
• Short

This film uses a selection of famous psychological studies to explain the experimental method and illustrate how laboratory experiments are done, thei...

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Methods: Field Experiments

• Documentary
• Short

Three classic studies - Hofling's study of nurse obedience, Fischer's test of the cognitive interview and the Pilliavins' research on good Samaritans ...

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Methods: Natural Experiments

• Documentary
• Short

In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with an opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that could not be d...

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Revise Psychology: Self Report Methods

• Documentary
• Series

Self Report Methods takes you through the key areas you need to revise - including the uses and limitations of different types of questionnaires and i...

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Revise Psychology: Correlations [Free]

• Documentary
• Series

Correlations identifies and explains the key ideas you need to revise for your psychology exams:
• positive and negative correlations
• correlation ...

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Revise Psychology: Observation

• Documentary
• Series

Using examples drawn from a range of classic studies this revision film takes you through the main areas you need to cover to produce successful exam ...

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Revise Reliability / Validity [Freeview]

• Documentary
• Series

Reliability and Validity looks at the key aspects of these important methodological concepts - from simple definitions, through an understanding of di...

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Revise Psychology: Correlations

• Documentary
• Series

Correlations identifies and explains the key ideas you need to revise for your psychology exams:
• positive and negative correlations
• correlation ...

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Revise Psychology: Case Studies

• Documentary
• Series

Illustrated by the case of Susan "Genie" Wiley, this film takes you through the essential ideas and skills needed to successfully revise Case Studies ...

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Revise Psychology: Reliability/Validity

• Documentary
• Series

Reliability and Validity looks at the key aspects of these important methodological concepts - from simple definitions, through an understanding of di...

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Psychology Non-Experimental Methods[4x4]

• Documentary
• Collection

Non-Experimental Research Methods - 4 Psychology revision films (Naturalistic Observation, Self-Report Methods, Cases Studies and Correlations) in one...

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Revise Psychology and Science [Free]

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film takes you through the key characteristics of science and the scientific method, using examples drawn from classic and contemporary ...

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Revise Psychology: Lab Experiments

• Documentary
• Series

Short, highly-focused, revision film on laboratory experiments that covers key:
definitions: aim, method and environment
concepts: dependent and in...

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Revise Psychology: Natural Experiments

• Documentary
• Series

What are Natural Experiments? And how are they different to Field or Laboratory experiments? Are there different types of Natural Experiment? And what...

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Revise Psychology: Field Experiments

• Documentary
• Series

Field Experiments uses a range of classic studies - Hofling, Piliavin, Fisher and Geiselman - to take you through the key ideas and skills required to...

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Revise Psychology: Experimental Design

• Documentary
• Series

This short film uses a real world example (the relationship between learning and time of day) to explore 3 different types of experimental design:
• ...

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Revise Psychology: Reductionism

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film uses the example of obesity to outline and evaluate reductionist and holistic approaches in psychology.

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Revise Psychology: Variables

• Documentary
• Series

Variables can seem dull, impersonal things that are just sort of there. But they're important because they're everywhere in psychology. And they come ...

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Revise Psychology: Sampling

• Documentary
• Series

Sampling Techniques takes you through the key areas you need to revise: from defining and understanding key concepts, through applying sampling techni...

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Revise Psychology: Nature-Nurture

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film frames and explains the nature-nurture debate around two classic applications: Bandura's BoBo doll and Fallon's neuroscience experi...

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Revise Psychology: Free Will/Determinism

• Documentary
• Series

A-level and AP Psychology: This revision film shows you how to develop, apply and evaluate your knowledge, using key definitions and explanations base...

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Revise Situational Psychology

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film examines the difference between individual and situational psychological explanations for people's behaviour, using a range of clas...

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Revise Psychology: Ethics

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film shows you how to develop your understanding of the nature and significance of ethical guidelines to the research process, using exa...

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Revise Psychology: Research Usefulness

• Documentary
• Series

This revision film shows you how to structure a complete answer for exam questions on the usefulness of psychologial research, based on a range of cla...

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Revise Socially Sensitive Research

• Documentary
• Series

Socially-Sensitive Research looks at ways to help you revise and structure exam answers around three key questions:
• Should the research be done?
•...

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Revise Psychology: Ethnocentrism

• Documentary
• Series

Revision film designed to highlight:
• the ideas you need to grasp (such as how ethnocentrism is defined and socially constructed) and
• skills you...

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Revise Psychology: Ethnocentrism [Free]

• Documentary
• Series

Free revision film for a-level and ap psychology designed to highlight:
• the ideas you need to grasp (such as how ethnocentrism is defined and socia...

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Maths in Psychology

• Documentary
• Series

In these 6 films Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the steps you need to follow to calculate a range of statistical tests (S...

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Maths in Psychology: Introduction [Free]

• Documentary
• Series

A short Introduction, by Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School / ATP), to the new Maths in A-Level Psychology requirements.

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Maths in Psychology: Spearman's Rho

• Documentary
• Series

Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the steps needed to calculate and apply Spearman's Rho

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Maths in Psychology: The Sign Test

• Documentary
• Series

In this Maths in Psychology film Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the steps needed to calculate the Sign Test.

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Maths in Psychology: Mann Whitney

• Documentary
• Series

Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the process of calculating the Mann Whitney U Test.

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Maths in Psychology: Chi Square

• Documentary
• Series

Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the process of calculating Chi Square.

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Maths in Psychology: Probability

• Documentary
• Series

Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) shows you how to understand probability in psychology.

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Maths in Psychology: Wilcoxen

• Documentary
• Series

Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School and ATP) takes you through the process of calculating the Wilcoxen Signed Ranks Test.

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Sociology: What is Sociology?

• Documentary
• Short

What Is Sociology provides a general introduction to the subject through the difference between social and sociological problems. Ideas about the latt...

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Sociology: Identity

• Documentary
• Short

Exploring the concept of identity through a simple in-class activity.

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Sociology: Sociology and Commonsense

• Documentary
• Short

Explores how sociological knowledge is different to common sense knowledge through the example of crime and deviance.

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Sociology: Social Constructionism

• Documentary
• Short

Exploring how culture changes the way we see and experience the social world

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Sociology: Family Diversity

• Documentary
• Short

Families and Households series: Examines how family structures and relationships have changed over the past 50 years.

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Sociology: Modernity and Family Change

• Documentary
• Short

This film explores three major changes in family life over the past 50 years, in relation to femininity, identity and cultural ambiguity.

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Sociology: The End of Childhood?

• Documentary
• Short

What is childhood? And is it disappearing in contemporary societies?

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Sociology: Childhood and New Technology

• Documentary
• Short

How are new technologies changing childhood?

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Deviance: Gender and Crime

• Documentary
• Short

Explores and explains the relationship between gender and crime.

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Deviance: Moral Panics

• Documentary
• Short

This film examines the concepts of moral panic and deviancy amplification using a classic (Mods and Rockers) and contemporary (Hoodies) mix.

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Sociology: Interactionism - Crime [Free]

• Documentary
• Short

A one-minute explanation of Interactionist perspectives on crime and deviance.

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Deviance: Situational Crime Prevention

• Documentary
• Feature

Examines the idea of situational crime prevention through the work of Dr. Kate Painter and her Stoke-on-Trent (UK) study of street lighting and its re...

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Deviance: The Functions of Crime

• Documentary
• Short

Crime and Deviance: This film outlines and explains, using the work of Emil Durkheim, some of the ways crime can have positive benefits for the indivi...

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Deviance: Hate Crime

• Documentary
• Feature

Featuring Dr Neil Chakraborti, one of the UK's leading experts in this field, this film introduces some of the key ideas and concepts surrounding hate...

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Deviance: Crimes of the Powerful

• Documentary
• Feature

Although crime and criminality is frequently constructed as a problem of the powerless, crimes committed by powerful individuals and groups are an imp...

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Sociology: Realism and Crime [Free]

• Documentary
• Short

A one-minute explanation of Realist perspectives on crime and deviance.

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Strain Theory

• Documentary
• Series

This short film – the first of 3 in the CAST (Crime and Social Theory) series - introduces Merton’s Strain Theory by exploring both its historical and...

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Sociology: Strain Theory - Crime [Free]

• Documentary
• Short

A one-minute explanation of Strain Theory as it relates to crime and deviance.

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Labelling Theory

• Documentary
• Series

This short film – the second of 3 in the CAST (Crime and Social Theory) series - introduces Labelling Theory by exploring how it moved the focus of cr...

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