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Post Of The Week – Sunday 24th March 2019
1) The Psychology Of Climate Change Responding to climate change can be seen as an example of social change. In our course, we see social change as a consequence of social influence processes. This video explains some of the psychology of climate change. Here is a link to the University Of California website which deals […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 29th May, 2016
1) Ethics We have looked at a few ethics questions as part of the revision process. Occasionally, they relate to studies involving children. The rules are clear. Parental consent is needed for children under the age of 16. https://heatst.com/life/new-questions-over-kids-company-brain-experiments/ This article relates to Kids’ Company, a charity which has closed in controversial circumstances. It looks […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday April 17th 2016
1) Some Commentary On Addiction We’re about to finish Addictive Behaviour in A2. I’ve been reworking some of the webpages to bring them up to date. Here are three links which illustrate some of the things I have been thinking about. http://www.psypost.org/2016/04/treating-sugar-addiction-like-drug-abuse-study-42179 This article explains how Varenicline could be used to treat excessive sugar consumption. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 9th April 2016
1) Romanian Orphanages The English And Romanian Adoptees study is central for our understanding of the effects of institutionalisation and more generally understanding the importance of attachment. The oldest child in this study was 3 and a half years old. Some children however were left in the orphanages for much longer before they were adopted. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th February 2016
1) The Mirror Test When we study the development of the sense of self in A2 Cognition And Development, we refer to the mirror test. 15 month old children sitting in front of a mirror will remove a red dot from their forehead, suggesting that they understand that the person in the mirror is “them”. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 26th September, 2015
1) Keeping A Spotless Mind We’ve been getting interested in cognitive neuroscience in AS this week. We’ve been looking at the idea of looking inside the brain if we want to understand what actually happens when we remember something. We have also been thinking about how insights from neuroscience move us away from the mechanistic […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 18th October, 2014
1) Memory, The Hippocampus And HM We’ve had an interesting week in AS looking at the multistore model of memory. In particular, it has been interesting to look at the link between the model and current research into memory. There is a story at the heart of this research which, on the face of it, […]
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