Derren Brown
October 29th, 2011Watch out for some relevant psychology in Derren Brown’s new series on C4. Next week is on Deindividuation - relevant for unit 3 (A2). Y13 - remember the Trick or Treat kids?
Stress Test
October 9th, 2011Try this stress test on the BBC web site. It will help you to understand the causes and symptoms of stress and you are also participating in a real piece of research!
bps research digest
October 7th, 2011The BPS produce a monthly summary of research it is easy to read and often quite interesting. Try to log on and get the monthly emails. Go to the main BPS page and look on the left for the link.
Addiction TV programme
March 18th, 2010Watch sections of the BBC show on addiction on youtube. It is called constant craving. You can get to it through psychexchange:
http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/videos/view/20670/
Unit 2 Obedience
March 18th, 2010Look out for information about a TV show which was on last night in France. It was a game show based on Milgram’s research and there has been a lot of debate about it. There was a good discussion about it on Radio 2 today (18/10/2010) at 1.34pm - you can listen on iplayer. Also see a clip of the show on youtube under ‘Spoof game show shocks France’.
Sleep
November 2nd, 2009Look at some of the research being carried out now at a sleep research unit ( Loughborough University)
Also you can find out a lot more about sleep from the bbc web site - the best bit is the sheep dash game for testing how alert you are!!
Improving your memory
November 1st, 2009The bbc web site has two good pages on testing your memory and ways of improving your memory (go down to the bottom of this page and click on Test your memory or Read memory tips). Check them out and try to use some of the advice when revising for exams.
Colour changing card trick
September 3rd, 2009Here is a video which shows us that paying attention is important. Watch the card trick carefully.
Psychologists
July 13th, 2009If you are keen to study psychology or a related subject at university you will need to show that you are interested and keen to expand your knowledge beyond the A level. Here are some things you can do;
Read the research digest each month, or even sign up for the emails so that you can be kept up to date with recent research.
Sign up to become student member of the BPS. This costs a few quid but you get regular magazines, invites to conferences and it shows you are really keen on taking psychology further.
Watch tv programmes and films and read books related to psychology.
Backward songs
July 13th, 2008Try going to jeff milners site and listen to some songs backwards. First listen without knowing what you are listening for then put up the supposed words. How can you explain what happens?