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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 reliable if we present each of the suspects one-at-a-time. In the A2 Psychology [...]

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 without a voice on PsychBLOG; or as I’m going to call them: PSYlent!

Well here [...]

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 cause the same problems vicariously onto the children of stressed parents?

Recent research has suggested [...]

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 you want to be smart, you need to know
All twenty core studies - [...]

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 and has just released a public trial of the on-line software which allows you [...]

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 some little gems for us all - especially those of you who might have [...]

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, and learning key concepts and terminology.

Each study is introduced in detail, with background, aims [...]

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 Times following a QCA comparison of the demands of various academic subjects it [...]