For the first few years of my teaching career, I would set revision lessons without much expectation. If you were going to do a test, you should at least give some chance of success by providing the lesson before for ‘revision’. I would often provide a list of suggested activities that students could pick from: […]
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Milgram’s obedience studies are amongst the most famous in all of psychology and taught to all psychology students. But if you think you know all about them, chances are that a new film from shortcuts tv, Beyond Milgram, will get you thinking again. When Professors Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher asked samples of psychology students […]
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This topic contains a lot of vocabulary that students may not have previously encountered. I find it useful to take time in the lesson to discuss the meaning of key words to help students understand the function or location of different aspects of the nervous system. Please note, a version of a lesson PowerPoint has been […]
Read moreThe A2 Complete Companion on holiday at Machu Picchu in Peru, picture of Debora D’Auria, Head of Psychology Southend High School for Girls . Send us your photos of the Complete Companion fulfilling its role as a complete companion.
Read moreIn December we launched a competition to celebrate the publication of our new AS Revision Companion, offering schools a chance to win a revision masterclass with Complete Companions author Cara Flanagan. The winner was Lauren Jenner (front row, far right) who won the revision masterclass for her AS Psychology class, which took place at the Weald […]
Read moreThe latest edition (3rd edition) of our A2 Complete Companion has an error on page 285. The two blue boxes under the heading ‘Truth’ are in the wrong order. It should be H1 is correct (There is something going on) first and then H0 (There is nothing going on) second). The true positive occurs when the […]
Read moreThe UK-based charity Science about Science aims to equip people to make sense about the scientific and medical claims in public discussions. Part of your study of psychology has similar aims – to teach you to make educated assessments of information presented to you. Sense about Science gets particularly annoyed by the things said by celebrities. So every year […]
Read more“Misery Has More Company Than People Think,” a paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, draws on a series of studies examining how college students evaluate moods, both their own and those of their peers. Led by Alex Jordan, who at the time was a Ph.D. student in Stanford’s psychology department, the researchers […]
Read moreIn the January 2011 Unit 1 exam there was a question related to the multistore model (question 4). I was somewhat concerned to find the following comment in the report on the exam ‘A number of answers suggested that the concepts of maintenance and elaborative rehearsal were part of the MSM. Maintenance and elaborative rehearsal were […]
Read moreAsch’s classic study judging the length of lines demonstrated people will go along with majority opinion even when the answer is clearly wrong. One of the key questions was whether they were just going along with the answers (called ‘compliance’), or whether the majority influence actually changed their opinions (i.e. they internalised the majority view). […]
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