Monthly Archives: September 2007

Get writing for your chance to be a winner!

As we approach the a century of posts, impressive I know, I’ve been thinking about how to celebrate this milestone. Over the last 6 months I have managed to rant and muse upon many different areas of psychology specifically relating to the OCR specification. We’ve also seen the new specification for 2008 go [...]

PSYlent: 23rd September 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 [...]

Video: Hemisphere disconnection

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 I haven’t seen videos [...]

Resources galore from BPS Research Digest

Along with the ever excellent resource which is PsychBLOG the BPS has collated some articles of interest … and we’re in there too with a link to my interview with Mark Griffiths.
Following the approval of the new 2008 specifications the always excellent BPS Research Digest Blog written by Christian Jarrett has published an excellent post [...]

Approved: the new 2008 Spec and Zimbardo’s not invited!

Looking at the OCR site this morning I was pleased to see that the new 2008 specification for Psychology has finally been approved. The biggest shock of it all is that Zimbardo has been dropped and replaced by Reicher & Haslam (2006) Rethinking the psychology of tyranny [full text available here].
Other changes to the [...]

PSYlent: 16th September 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 [...]

Yet another autism research carnival …

After the popularity of the last two autism research carnivals (one & two) it’s time for another one. I would love to write and comment on all of these studies but if I did this would be an autism blog as there is so much research going on in the field of autism at [...]

Diffusion of responsibility or irresponsibility

This post discusses the sensitive subject of a rape victim and the diffusion of responsibility that was seen around the time of the offence.
In the first year of the course we look at the study conducted by Piliavin in response to diffusion of responsibility (also called the bystander effect) why it occurs and the [...]