The influence of our role models on behaviour is something of particular interest to psychologists and we study it through the entire psychology course. More specifically we look at the research conducted by Bandura and his work into Social Learning Theory (SLT) in the imitation of aggression. In a television advertisement called [...]
With all the conferences that are going on lots of us are starting to look forward to the new 2008 specifications: what are the studies like; what else have the authors done? One of the new studies in the physiological psychology module of the AS is Maguire’s research into the size of London cabbies’ [...]
It was only recently that I first mentioned the upcoming ATP 2008 conference; but now we have conformation of the speakers and more.
The 26th Annual Conference of the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
University of Lincoln: Thursday 10th July to Saturday 12th July, 2008
The conference is for teachers of psychology and will offer updating sessions [...]
The A2 Crime module covers a wide range of areas and the Home Office has an excellent resource which could come of use to you for lessons or just to get a little wider ranging information on crime theories, models and practice.
Over the past 2 decades our understanding of crime and crime reduction has grown. [...]
In the A2 health module we look at pain perception and what can affect this. One of the most fascinating disorders within pain (well in my opinion at least) is phantom limb pain. Phantom limb pain is when pain is perceived in a limb (although it can be experienced in other parts of [...]
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 [...]
OCR have announced a series (well two) conferences which look quite exciting. A chance to meet some of the authors (Griffiths, Richer & Haslam) of studies in the new specification and more. These conferences are being held in Leeds and London so if you live anywhere near (or even if you don’t) you [...]
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