Category Archives: PsychBLOG

Just a general category to catch all that I forget to put into a category. :-)

Proudly announcing PsychClips.co.uk

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 [...]

Lights. Camera. Action.

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 [...]

Happy Birthday PsychBLOG and Free Stuff

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 [...]

Universities Not Accepting Psychology A Levels

[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 [...]

PSYlent: 23rd March 2008

Here is the next PSYlent, the weekly overview of those stories that I think are pretty interesting in psychology but don’t really apply to OCR. Seems a shame to miss out on them just because I can’t get them to fit into the specifications. So, here are those studies that would have been [...]

Psychology: technically demanding!

How many of you have had the same argument with friends, family or colleagues - it goes something like this:
“Psychology - that’s one of those ‘ologies’ - not a real subject - it’s the soft option. Why not do a proper subject like Biology?”
Well today is your day according to an article in The [...]

Last chance to see Zimbardo while he’s still with OCR

I spoke about this conference a while ago and the tickets were very popular and sold out. As a result of some cancellations there’s about 50 tickets now remaining to get to this conference set up by Cara Flanagan through South West Conferences.  You can go on the 18th or 19th of March - [...]

Psychology of Love Marathon

Well it’s that time of year again: florists and chocolatiers are selling over priced roses and heart shaped chocolates; Woolworths has got the ‘Love Land’ toys out again; and we’re all reaffirming our commitment to the one our heart belongs to (and sometimes to our partners too!) So, never one to miss the chance [...]