A recent study by researchers from University College and Kings Cross College in London and the University of Hertfordshire made headlines at the start of January 2015 with its conclusions that some women would find childbirth easier if their partner was not with them during labour. The study was actually about attachment, because the researchers were interested in […]
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It’s the run-up to Christmas, so what could be more festive than a Research Methods quiz ?! Many thanks to our friends at AllPsych for putting this quiz together. And a very happy Christmas to psychology students everywhere.
Read moreThe Wellcome Collection has launched a six part digital narrative called Mindcraft about theories of the mind of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries: just late enough to cover Freud. Worth a look for an interesting way of telling a digital story. Click here to explore Mindcraft for yourself.
Read morePsychologists have known for many years that memories are primarily stored in the cerebral cortex of the brain, and that a ‘control centre’ buried deep in the brain, is involved in both creating memories and retrieving them from their store in the cerebral cortex: made up of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex. In November […]
Read moreThe BPS has recently launched an interactive timeline called Origins which presents key developments in the evolution of psychological sciences from 1842 until the opening of the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain in 1998. AQA favourite Wilhelm Wundt makes an appearance, naturally, coming in at 1875. The timeline features some excellent photos and […]
Read moreAccording to a recent article on the Guardian’s ‘Notes and Theories’ section, approximately 10 million people in the UK are believed to have some form of phobia: that’s out of a total UK population of 64 million. (I would tell you what percentage that was but I have a fear of calculating statistics.) The vast majority of […]
Read moreThe new AQA spec (soon to be approved, we hear) includes, at A Level, ‘ways of studying the brain: scanning techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)’. This YouTube video gives a functional, magnetic and resonant view of what fMRI involves and what its results look like in practice. The AQA spec is concerned with the […]
Read moreJudit Lőcsei-Campbell contacted Cara to let us know her students spotted a discrepancy between the current (third) edition of The Complete Companion student book (AQA A) and the previous (second) edition. While the second edition says (on page 35) that Yarmey (1993) found no significant differences in the accuracy of recall that could be attributed […]
Read moreAn excellent article on the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest blog considers why it is so difficult to establish cause and effect in studies of links between intelligence and education. One difficulty is that it is not ethical to remove one randomly-selected group of children from education to test what happens to their intelligence levels in later life. Another […]
Read moreOur fabulous authors Cara Flanagan, Mike Cardwell, Ros Geillis and Mike Griffin have been VERY hard at work on the A Level Year 1/AS Complete Companion student book (Cara and Mike C) and Teacher’s Companion (Ros and Mike G), making sure they are the best resources possible to support the new AQA specification. You can […]
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