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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’ hippocampus. Through the use of MRI scanners her and her team have studied [...]

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 on psychology, presentations and workshops on teaching and learning, and opportunities to share good [...]

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. This section introduces and organises some of the approaches that have been developed to [...]

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 the body too - there’s been writing on phantom menstrual pains in women who [...]

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!

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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 might want to get to the site and register your interest as tickets are [...]

… 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 own AQA Psychology blog.
aqa.psychblog.co.uk 
The blog will be along the same lines as this one [...]

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 (ethics, ethnocentrism, androcentric) but the biggest consideration is the ecological validity of the study.
“[The [...]

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 lolly pop.

“Once you get over the initial reluctance to put a human head in [...]

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, but it’s a lot to keep up-to-date with and sometimes I go for a [...]