Tag Archives: Ainsworth

Post Of The Week – Thursday, 11th July 2019

July 11, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Screen Time Here is a piece of video from Andrew Przybylski about the effects of screen time. This piece from The Guardian also by him covers similar ground. It’s an example of popular fears being out of step with the science.   2) And On Gambling …. Andrew Przybylski comments at the end of […]

Post Of The Week – Monday 13th August 2018

August 13, 2018 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Early Social Development, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) T Tests Here is a video from Crash Course explaining t tests. You don’t need to know everything on here for the exam but it’s good background on why for a t test you need similar distributions and standard deviations.   2) Screen Time This article on screen time makes a powerful point about […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 19th November 2017

November 19, 2017 · by · in Eating Behaviour, Learning, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) All In The Mind – Attachment You need to wind about ten minutes into this programme to find a discussion on attachment with Elizabeth Meins. She challenges the way in which attachment is linked to later disorders. She emphasises that attachments are not stable and change over time. She also challenges the idea that […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 30th July 2017

July 30, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory · Leave a comment

1) To The Bone This article acts as a commentary on “To The Bone”, a film about anorexia nervosa which is now available on Netflix. The article challenges the idea that watching the film could be harmful or triggering for people at risk of developing anorexia. To claim this, the article claims, is to misrepresent the […]

Post Of The Week – Tuesday 27th December 2016

December 27, 2016 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Obedience, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) The Predictive Power Of Attachment Is Overrated That is the claim of this article. At a time when attachment is being promoted as a way of understanding later difficulties, the article questions what we know about the influence of attachment. The article makes some important points. People tend to confuse insecure attachment with no […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 15th October 2016

October 16, 2016 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) World Mental Health Day In the Year 2 course this week, we found ourselves talking about stigma in the context of World Mental Health Day. We were thinking about the relationship between stigma and free will. People think that mental illness is the consequence of choice in some sense and therefore blame people with […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 19th June 2014

June 19, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Early Social Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience, Relationships, Research Methods, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Evolutionary Explanations Of Fighting Behaviour In our A2 course, we look at two lots of evolutionary explanation in some detail. In Eating Behaviour, we consider evolutionary explanations of food preference. We consider specifically the idea that we have evolved to be an intelligent species which eats cooked meat. The discovery of how to cook […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 27th March 2014

March 27, 2014 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Early Social Development, Nature - Nurture, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Young People And Mental Health A couple of conversations I have had with people this week have brought the issue of young people and mental health to the fore. In the AS course, we have been looking at abnormality. Laura pointed out that if conditions like anorexia are so dangerous to significant numbers of […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 13th March, 2014

March 13, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Models Of Abnormality, Neuroscience, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Smoking, Depression And Anxiety And Stress When we study depression, we look at the idea of co-morbidity. People who suffer from depression tend to suffer from something else as well. This is interesting from the point of view of diagnosis because the doctor has to decide whether it is the depression or the other […]

The Influence Of Childhood On Adult Relationships – Why This Is Interesting

December 12, 2013 · by · in Early Social Development, Nature - Nurture, Relationships · Leave a comment

By the time you read this in your lesson, you will know how Bowlby’s and Ainsworth’s theories have been used to show how childhood experience influences adult relationships. You will also know some evidence about Ainsworth’s attachment types and adult relationships. You will know about how this evidence has been criticised and how different methods […]

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