Hodder Education presents OCR Psychology for AS a brand new text for the 2008 OCR AS Psychology specification, covering all 15 core studies, contextualising, presenting and evaluating each study in full, in order to make it relevant to the student. The textbook is highly accessible and readable, with useful guidance on comparing studies, applying themes, [...]
How many of you have had the same argument with friends, family or colleagues - it goes something like this:
“Psychology - that’s one of those ‘ologies’ - not a real subject - it’s the soft option. Why not do a proper subject like Biology?”
Well today is your day according to an article in The [...]
I spoke about this conference a while ago and the tickets were very popular and sold out. As a result of some cancellations there’s about 50 tickets now remaining to get to this conference set up by Cara Flanagan through South West Conferences. You can go on the 18th or 19th of March - [...]
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 [...]
I have written about Health Promotion a bit in the past but over the last few months there’s been quite a lot of talk about it so here I am going to collate it into another carnival of research.
1) Increase the costs to get them doing it.
The Health Belief Model states that we need to [...]
Well it’s that time of year again: florists and chocolatiers are selling over priced roses and heart shaped chocolates; Woolworths has got the ‘Love Land’ toys out again; and we’re all reaffirming our commitment to the one our heart belongs to (and sometimes to our partners too!) So, never one to miss the chance [...]
There has been a lot of talk about Phil Zimbardo recently - he seems to be getting everywhere making sure that we all know about his new(ish) book - from appearances on popular US television to lectures on evil and the Lucifer Effect there’s been plenty of discussion.
We study (well at least at the moment) [...]
Recently I posted some videos of Roger Sperry’s research into lateralisation of function in epileptic patients who had had their corpus callosum severed to varying degrees. Now for more Sperry related goodies: how to test your corpus callosum (and no surgery is needed!). Basically all you have to do is:
You need to ask [...]
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