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Well after a brief hiatus preparing for an Ofsted inspection (which has thankfully passed) it’s back to normal posting … well as normal as possible with only 7 teaching weeks until AS exams and 9 until A2! After returning from a ‘Getting Started’ conference I found an email from OCR letting me know about [...]

Hodder Education presents OCR Psychology for AS a brand new text for the 2008 OCR AS Psychology specification, covering all 15 core studies, contextualising, presenting and evaluating each study in full, in order to make it relevant to the student. The textbook is highly accessible and readable, with useful guidance on comparing studies, applying themes, [...]

Over the next few weeks I am going to cover the five new studies on the 2008 specification and see what resources are around for them already. I was lucky enough to go the the OCR inset in Leeds on Wednesday where both Griffiths and Richer & Haslam were speaking. It was a [...]

In the Individual Differences module of the AS we look at the Gould review of Yerkes’ work at the beginning of the century in relation to IQ testing and race titled ‘A Nation of Morons‘. A big issue that is raised is the reliability and validity of psychometric tests - do these tests [...]

A good while back I compiled a list of references and more importantly full text links for all of the core studies. Well now the new 2008 spec has been finalised it’s time for the updated references. If you’re looking for the ‘old’ (2000-2007) spec studies see this page. All of the files are being [...]

One study in the AS which always raises debate is that of Hraba & Grant who were replicating the research of Clark and Clark from the late 1930’s. The study is investigating racial preference, awareness and self-identification in both white and black children. Stumbling around the internet I found a very powerful video [...]

“… the term intelligence designates a complexly interrelated assemblage of functions, no one of which is completely or accurately known in man”
(Yerkes, 1929, p. 524)

In the Gould study (which is actually a review of the work conducted by Yerkes) a big issue that is raised is the reliability and validity of psychometric tests - [...]

You can get the audio to the interview from the new blogcast.psychblog site.
Professor Mark Griffiths has been kind enough to give me a few minutes of his time to answer some questions about his research on gambling, his feelings on being included in the new 2008 specification, and what relevance his studies have to help [...]

There’s a new CD (which are 12cm - thus the title) out that should be on all of your wish lists this summer: Mark Holah (with LearnByIT) has just released Core Studies in Psychology CD aimed at colleges and teachers as a teaching and revision aid and it’s well worth checking out.
From the press release:
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The Rosenhan experiment is (at least in my opinion) one of the best studies in the 20 core studies that we have at the moment. It’s fascinating to see the errors that the psychiatrists made; both type one and type two. Here’s something a little different for you readers. A little video [...]