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Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th June 2015

June 13, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Zimbardo’s Prison Study Reassessed I was pleased to see Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment disappear from the A Level specification and a bit disappointed when I heard it was coming back. This article does a superb job at highlighting some of the issues with it. http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment I read somewhere once that the study had never […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 2nd May 2015

May 2, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Memory, Research Methods, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Depression As A Cellular Response In thinking about classification and diagnosis of depression, we contrast the idea of depression as an illness which needs to be cured with the idea of depression as a natural response to setback and trauma which has survived for sound evolutionary reasons. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150423125850.htm#.VT5DIVPM0_E.twitter This article explores this idea through […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 26th April 2015

April 26, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Stress · Leave a comment

1) Risk Taking In Adolescence In Biological Explanations Of Social Cognition, we get interested in the idea the way in which social cognition develops during adolescence. There is a fairly robust finding that during the period in which connections are being established between the pre-frontal cortex and limbic system, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the […]

AS Stress – Bigger Picture Thinking

January 8, 2014 · by · in Stress · 15 Comments

In our lessons, we will concentrate on core text book research into stress. You will be looking at definitions, studies, strengths and limitations. Some of those studies are quite old. However, we can’t let the topic pass without looking at some of the research being done right now. This research both gives you a better […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 19th December

December 19, 2013 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Obedience, Research Methods, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · 2 Comments

1) Autism – Intense World Theory As part of our study of the development of a sense of self, we look at the idea that people with autism lack a theory of mind. The assumption is that there is something in the developmental process which prevents people with autism from developing the ability to see […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 29th November

November 28, 2013 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

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 […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 8th August

August 8, 2013 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Relationships, Stress · Leave a comment

1) BBC3 – It’s A Mad World The season of programmes on mental health is now at an end. If you have missed any, please go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b3s86 You might like to see this commentary from Mind which I think sums up well why these programmes have been so important. http://www.mind.org.uk/blog/9328_what_i_thought_of_extreme_ocd_camp 2) Status And Stress […]