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.
John [...]
Here is the first of a what is going to be a weekly overview of those stories that I think are pretty interesting in psychology but don’t really apply to the OCR specification. Seems a shame to miss out on them just because I can’t get them to fit into the specifications. So, here are [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to Gareth over at PsychSplash he has found a little gem of a site for social psychology and what’s going on at the moment - In-Mind.org. The site seems to be a cross between a ‘proper’ academic journal and e-zine type-thing for people to publish their work on social psychology. I haven’t [...]
When teaching psychology and health I have found that a top evaluation issue that students can really get their teeth into and discuss well in part B essays is the issue of correlation and causality (or more accurately lack of causality).
Because of the practical and ethical problems of studying health and illness this tricky little [...]
Recently I remember (well I had to search for it actually, even though I only wrote it three weeks ago) writing:
Blogs aren’t just something that you have to write to make use of them as a teacher; there are hundreds if not thousands of psychology related blogs out there, some useful, some not-so-useful, and reading [...]
Pain and suffering aren’t exactly everybody’s cup of tea, but we do study pain as part of the A2 health course. Some of the more interesting topics in pain are surrounding peoples perceptions of pain such as how some people perform extraordinary acts (such as lying on a bed of nails or sitting through one [...]
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 [...]
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