Tag Archives: Bowlby
Post Of The Week – Saturday 8th February 2020
1) Separation When we study Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation, we set it in the context of the upheaval of the Second World War. This article explains how across the world, such separation is now experienced by very many children. 2) Language Centres Here’s Hank Green doing some great stuff on Broca and Wernicke, […]
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 28th August 2019
1) Definitions Of Abnormality Here is Tony David from the UCL Institute Of Mental Health on defining mental health. This links to the definitions with which we deal in our course. 2) Is The Bystander Effect A Myth? Here is a piece of video from the BBC. 3) The History Of Genetics I’ve been […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday, 11th July 2019
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 – Sunday 3rd January 2016
1) 0 To 3 Years This radio programme features David Willetts who used to be a government minister. In it, he explains why we have got it wrong if we as a society invest a high proportion of our resources into children in the first three years of their lives. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sggdk I’ve been thinking again […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd January 2015
1) Stress Does You Good We are about to enter the time of year in AS when we start the stress topic. At the heart of much of the research in this topic is the idea that stress is a bad thing. Research is now starting to question this, as these references from TED show. […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 19th June 2014
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
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 […]
Bowlby, Harlow And Anna Freud: Changing The Way We Think About Childhood
The debate between learning theory and Bowlby’s theory has its origins 50 years or more ago. How did the work of Bowlby, Harlow and Anna Freud change the way we think about children? Have these changes been positive or negative? Listen to this programme about Anna Freud http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0s6m You can read more about Anna Freud […]
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