Monthly Archives: August 2015

Post Of The Week – Sunday 30th August, 2015

August 30, 2015 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Jim Al-Khalili On Quantum Biology This isn’t Psychology really but it might tell us quite a lot about what we do. There’s a BBC programme and a shorter TED Talk. Jim Al-Khalili is a physicist. In these items, he is applying what has been known for a while in quantum mechanics to the problems […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 23rd August 2015

August 23, 2015 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Interrogation And Telling The Truth I have spent the last week thinking about the social influence topic in next year’s AS. Within that topic, I have been thinking about the role of psychologists in interrogation through the the idea of conformity to a social role. Since Zimbardo’s work on this in the Stanford Prison […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 16th August 2015

August 16, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Making Choices We throw concepts like “individualistic” and “collectivistic” when talking about cultural differences. In individualistic cultures, people make choices for themselves; in collectivistic cultures, choices are made by someone else. In this TED Talk, Sheena Iyengar deconstructs this dichotomy and says a lot more about how we understand choices. Understanding cultural differences becomes […]

Post Of The Week – Monday 10th August 2015

August 10, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Early Social Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Models Of Abnormality, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Chemical Soup This TED talk from David Anderson comes from the same event as the one by Thomas Insel which we use in lessons. Anderson’s idea in this talk is that we tend to treat the brain as a chemical soup where things go wrong when the balance of ingredients is not quite right: […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 2nd August 2015

August 2, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Relationships, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Early Experience This week, I have been preparing for the Attachment topic in the new AS. In stages of development, there is a controversy about how much babies can do in the early weeks of life. This research into the laughter of babies is part of the process of suggesting that they can do […]