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Another productive lost evening stumbling the web allowed me one gem of a site that I’ve spent the afternoon playing with. I still can’t work out if it’s absolutely amazing or not really that useful to us psychology teachers but I thought it worth a post anyway. The site is called Visible Body [...]

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, [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Phil Zimbardo recently - he seems to be getting everywhere making sure that we all know about his new(ish) book - from appearances on popular US television to lectures on evil and the Lucifer Effect there’s been plenty of discussion.
We study (well at least at the moment) [...]

Recently I posted some videos of Roger Sperry’s research into lateralisation of function in epileptic patients who had had their corpus callosum severed to varying degrees. Now for more Sperry related goodies: how to test your corpus callosum (and no surgery is needed!). Basically all you have to do is:
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In the Developmental Psychology unit of the AS we look at a longitudinal study of children who have been maternally deprived (Hodges and Tizard). Prior to the Hodges and Tizard study it was thought (mainly as a result of Bowlby’s research) that those children who were maternally deprived as children would become affectionless psychopaths. [...]

In the AS course we look a the Sperry study of hemisphere disconnection and the findings surrounding lateralisation of function. It can be quite a difficult and dry study (although it’s one of my favorites and I have a fab PowerPoint that I will put in the resources share) and videos are few-and-far-between so thanks [...]

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 [...]