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Post Of The Week – Saturday 26th March, 2016
1) Brain Training When we study working memory, we look at the claim that it is possible to train people to have more effective working memory. The key concept is transfer. People might improve their scores on a brain training game but they are unable to transfer success from these to other tasks. This is […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 18th April 2015
1) Louis Theroux – By Reason Of Insanity I saw parts of these two programmes a couple of weeks ago. Originally, I had planned not to post links on here as the programmes are in some ways quite disturbing. However, we ended up talking about them in one of Friday’s Year 12 lessons, so it […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 12th April 2015
1) Fats We spend some time as part of the A2 Eating Behaviour topic considering whether a calorie is really just a calorie. The argument is whether we should focus on how much we eat or on the type of food we eat. It is interesting that when I started teaching this topic in its […]
Post Of The week – Sunday 28th December 2014
1) A calorie is not just a calorie A friend of ours came round to visit just before Christmas. She is a student nurse. She is particularly interested in the impact of nutrition on health. She had a couple of interesting things to say about some of the content we cover in the A2 Eating […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 13th March, 2014
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 […]
Post Of The week – Thursday 27th February, 2014
1) Horizon On How You Really Make Decisions This programme looks at the way in which logic and intuition govern the decisions we make. It features the work of Daniel Kahneman from Princeton University. I’ve only managed to watch a few minutes so far but, as with the other psychological Horizons recently, it looks really […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 29th November
1) Driving And Risky Behaviour In Adolescence Along with all of Year 12, I went to Plymouth Pavilions today to watch a presentation about road safety. The presentation, from Learn 2 Live was hard hitting and at times harrowing. The adolescent brain, and in particular the way in which adolescents deal with social situations, is a […]
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