… a new site (again)! As this blog is specifically devoted to OCR Psychology there’s loads of research and stuff that I can’t really write about because it’s not realted to what we do - and I felt that you AQA people might feel a little left out - so we now have our very [...]
The Milgram study of obedience is one of the best know studies in psychology following the disturbing findings that came from the study: we would electrocute a complete stranger passed the point that we thought they were dead just because an authority figure had ordered us to. There were many problems with the study [...]
Struggling to think of a present for that special psychologist, psychology student or teacher in your life? Then here you go: a selection of psychology related gifts that will make that person delight (or maybe not).
The Freud Lolly Pop
Looking for something to suck on this Christmas holiday? Then this is your best bet: a Freud [...]
More-and-more people are realising how blogs can be used in education (well hopefully or I’m stuffed) - be it reading fab ones like you are now, writing them for your students, or actually getting your students to write them themselves. I read hundreds of blogs myself (runs off to check …) actually 78 regularly, [...]
In the Individual Differences module of the AS we look at the Gould review of Yerkes’ work at the beginning of the century in relation to IQ testing and race titled ‘A Nation of Morons‘. A big issue that is raised is the reliability and validity of psychometric tests - do these tests [...]
Introducing Psychological Research 3rd Edition
It’s been 7 years since the last revision of Introducing Psychological Research (Banyard & Grayson) but what has this recent 3rd Edition brought us? They say: “This edition provides full summaries of the most important psychological research studies and includes an expanded section on methodology. The studies have been selected to [...]
A good while back I compiled a list of references and more importantly full text links for all of the core studies. Well now the new 2008 spec has been finalised it’s time for the updated references. If you’re looking for the ‘old’ (2000-2007) spec studies see this page. All of the [...]
Which gender experiences the most pain? The age old question is still rife: what hurts more, child birth or being kicked in the … well .. man bits? I try to raise this question when talking about measuring pain in the Health section of the A2 using the McGill Pain questionnaire to quantify - well [...]
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