Tag Archives: forgetting

Post Of The Term – Saturday 19th December 2020

December 20, 2020 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Memory, Neuroscience, Obedience, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

The blog has been inactive for a while. It’s been a busy term. Here are some Psychology highlights of the last three months related to our course. 1) The Battle Over Dyslexia In Psychology, much depends on how we define disorders. This article tells the story of how dyslexia was originally diagnosed, how that diagnosis […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 27th May, 2018

May 27, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Depression, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Narrow Vocabulary This news article looks at the claim that children are held back by a lack of vocabulary. This is seen as a consequence of being in homes where there are few books and where conversation is limited. This goes back to research originally done at the University of Kansas in the 1990s. As […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 1st October 2017

October 1, 2017 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Memory, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Conspirators In Their Own Memory Loss We’ve been working this week in Year 1 on explanations of forgetting. We focused on two broader evaluation points. Interference and retrieval failure due to absence as cues as explanations of forgetting are based on inference. They are not based on direct observation but rather are based on […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 25th March 2017

March 25, 2017 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Virtual Reality This week, as part of the phobias lessons in Year 1, we had a look at some video showing VR being used to treat PTSD. I explained that the video was quite old and that I hadn’t seen much about this recently. This article, from which the video above is drawn, was […]

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 26th September, 2015

September 26, 2015 · by · in Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Relationships, Research Methods · Leave a comment

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 […]