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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:
This [...]

While pottering around the web (as I do when I should be doing other things like marking) I came across Mr Split Brainy a fantastic flash game that is a really nice way of learning about Sperry’s split brain study and the lateralisation of function.
The brain is made up of two [...]

It’s been a quiet week here on psychblog I know, but now the first year exams are out the way (and I hope they went well for everyone sitting them) I have a little more time to start searching the web for the psychology news that’s of interest to you. :)
We study the physiology and [...]

Reading an article that I found posted on Mind Hacks from the NYT an interesting argument came across: are we responsible for what we might do?
“The attempt to link unconscious bias to actual acts of discrimination may be dubious. But are there other ways to look inside the brain and make predictions about an individual’s [...]

Studying the brain has always been problematic as there were few ways of investigating what part of the brain was functioning at a particular time. Over the last few decades many different types of brain scans have been developed (MRI, PET, MEG) which mean that we no longer have to wait for a [...]

UPDATE: If you’re wanting the Spec 2008 studies see here.
Here I will try to collate all of the full text original articles for the 20 core studies in the AS course. If you know where I can find a publicly available copy of any of the missing ones please let me know. :)
Also, I am [...]