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Post Of The Week – Saturday 8th November 2014

November 8, 2014 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Memory, Models Of Abnormality, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Repressed Memories Of Abuse At the end of last week, we watched Elizabeth Loftus’ TED talk on “The Fiction Of Memory” as an introduction into eye witness testimony and Loftus’ research. Our course focuses on eye witness testimony but Loftus’ work on recovered memories of abuse and the controversy that that research has produced […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 21st August 2014

August 21, 2014 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Obedience, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) Uta Frith On The History Of Autism http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/blog/2014/guest-blog-london-as-a-crucible-for-autism-in-the-1950s In this article, Uta Frith explains some of the background to the development of autism as a diagnosis. Three important ideas emerge from this. Firstly, it is worth reminding ourselves how recent the classification and diagnosis of autism is. Uta Frith started a PhD in 1964 at […]

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 […]