Monthly Archives: May 2007

Autism Research Carnival

A bit of a cop-out with this post as I’m in the middle of marking so you’re not getting your usual musings and commentary on the studies. Sorry.
Recently there has been loads of papers and research on Autism, the effects of it and the changing theories on the way autistic people view and perceive [...]

Review: Psychlotron.org.uk - The Teaching Resource Bank

Just to add a bit more flavour to the site I am writing a series of reviews of sites, books, and other resources that I either use myself, or think will be useful to teachers and students of OCR psychology. If you have a site that you would like me to review or if [...]

Meet Mr. Split Brainy

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 [...]

PSYlent: 27th May 2007

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 [...]

Want a mock decision? Then use a mock trial

“I remember Mattingburg’s most famous case: the case of the bloody knife. A man was found next to a murdered body, he had the knife in his hand, thirteen witnesses that seen him stab the victim, when the police arrived he said, “I’m glad I killed the bastard.” Mattingburg [...]

More talkative than once thought

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 [...]

PSYlent: 20th May 2007

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 [...]

More on the social psychology of violent video games

Back to posting after my little hiatus (well actually a standardisation meeting) with more on the effect of television and video games on children’s behaviour thanks to those nice people over at The Situationist. I first talked about the possible effects of gaming on children’s behavior in the first few weeks of the site with [...]