Even though Zimbardo is not going to be part of the specs next year he will be an important part of the background of the R&H study so he still wont be far from our thoughts! Even thought his study can (and does) come under massive criticism for ethics and methodological problems (cough… Zimbardo [...]
There has been quite a bit of research on the effectiveness of police lineups and whether presentation of the ’suspects’ could affect the reliability of the outcome (see here for a huge list of research). One of the big questions is should we show all the suspects together (as above) or is identification more [...]
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 [...]
It’s widely accepted that when a person suffers from stress this has massive negative effects on that person; both psychologically and physically. Much research has provided support to the idea that a being stressed can effect our immune system quite drastically making us prone to illness. However, could being exposed to a stressed parental environment [...]
Many thanks to Kim Higgins (who I have the great pleasure of working with) who has written this core study rhyme - rap - song to help remember the 20 core studies and what the researchers were doing. A prize to the first person to put it to music!
So … all together now:
If [...]
Another productive lost evening stumbling the web allowed me one gem of a site that I’ve spent the afternoon playing with. I still can’t work out if it’s absolutely amazing or not really that useful to us psychology teachers but I thought it worth a post anyway. The site is called Visible Body [...]
Well after a brief hiatus preparing for an Ofsted inspection (which has thankfully passed) it’s back to normal posting … well as normal as possible with only 7 teaching weeks until AS exams and 9 until A2! After returning from a ‘Getting Started’ conference I found an email from OCR letting me know about [...]
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