Following the success of our file sharing site for psychology teachers (PsychExchange.co.uk if you didn’t already know) we now release to the masses a video clip sharing site. PsychClips is a great new web site for psychology teachers to share video and audio clips that are hosted on youtube-type sites.
There are already almost 100 video clips on PsychClips and with other psychology teachers help this should grow considerably. Some of the videos are the better-known ones such as the Milgram and Zimbardo clips but there are already some lesser-known ones that psychology teachers may not have seen before and could use in class (if they’re lucky and have an electronic whiteboard) or as homework for students to watch.
As well as this those who are registered can ’save’ their favourite clips as bookmarks so that you can easily access them in the future. As always this is a free site (and will be forever-and-ever-and-ever) but to use the bookmark facility you will need to register - but even better - if you’re a member of PsychExchange.co.uk already you can use the same details and log on straight away.
So, when you’ve done your psychology video for our video competition you can put it on psychclips for all to see. What are you waiting for? Get over there now - and if you’re bored or just want to see what’s on the site there’s always the ‘random clip generator‘. Enjoy!
With the popularity of YouTube many people are turning to it to make their own little videos for revision and other classroom activities. So, we’re (Mark and I) putting a competition together for all our readers. We want you to get those cameras out and start to make your own video. It can be about anything related to A Level psychology. Maybe you might want [...]
The question as to whether humans are the only ones on this planet who have the ability to comprehend and use language has been of great argument since the beginning of psychology. At the moment we follow the progression of Washoe (RIP) and her ‘learning’ of American Sign Language and with the arrival of the new 2008 specification we will see Kanzi’s abilities using a lexicon (click for [...]
Back in January I talked about a fascinating video from a TED conference where Vilayanur Ramachandran discussed a new ‘treatment’ for phantom limb pain that he had come up with: the mirror box. I’m fascinated by phantom limb pain as I feel that it provides massive support for the thesis that pain perception is a psychological perception rather than a purely physiological phenomenon.Well over the last few months [...]
It was exactly a year ago today that I made that first tentative post wondering if the only people to read this blog would be Mark, my students, and, well … me. That hasn’t been the case and it’s been a fab year - although I didn’t realise exactly how much time and work was needed to keep this thing going.
To celebrate this (and the fact that one [...]
Within Crime-Victim interaction we look at the ‘fear of crime’ and many students learn about the British Crime Survey as part of this. More-and-more so students are using out-dated versions of the BCS (like pre-2000 which seems to be in many text books) which are methodologically flawed in their delivery. Following a review in 2001 the BCS has altered the methods quite a lot and [...]
[Update 2nd April] Health Warning: If reading this on a day other than April 1st be warned. There was a vicious ulterior motive for this post. Happy April Fools and thanks for all your comments and links.
As of September 2008 UK Universities will no longer be accepting Psychology A levels as an acceptable A level says the BBC.
Professor Joe King from Durham University, who headed the Annual Conference [...]
March 27, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Even though Zimbardo is not going to be part of the specs next year he will be an important part of the background of the R&H study so he still wont be far from our thoughts! Even thought his study can (and does) come under massive criticism for ethics and methodological problems (cough… Zimbardo told them to act that way … cough) it is still one of the [...]
