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 [...]
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. [...]
As we have launched our new site recently (and if you haven’t already been over there - go - well after reading this) I am going to write about some great ideas that psychology teachers could change and adapt to their class room and teaching style. So, to start off is an exercise that [...]
All those lucky teachers out there now have another fantastic resource to help in their teaching of psychology. Classic Studies in Psychology is brought to us by Dr. Steve Taylor. The Short Cuts packages consist of a number of short video clips designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their [...]
There’s a new CD (which are 12cm - thus the title) out that should be on all of your wish lists this summer: Mark Holah (with LearnByIT) has just released Core Studies in Psychology CD aimed at colleges and teachers as a teaching and revision aid and it’s well worth checking out.
From the press release:
This [...]
Just to add a bit more flavour to the site I am writing a series of reviews of sites, books, and other resources that I either use myself, or think will be useful to teachers and students of OCR psychology. If you have a site that you would like me to review or if [...]
As kindly pointed out by a colleague, The Register has been talking about a new study which has shown why PowerPoint can actually detract from lessons or lectures (link is a PDF).
“Humans just don’t like absorbing information verbally and visually at the same time - one or the other is fine but not both simultaneously.
Researchers [...]
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