The Manifest and Latent Functions of CAGE
While mnemonics are not everyone’s favourite hot beverage I’ve always found them a very useful memory device – and I’m particularly fond of CAGE (Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity) and its less-exulted compatriots CAGES (…Sexuality) and CAGED (…Disability) for a couple of reasons: Firstly, it has a simple manifest function for students. If you’re ever stuck […]
Braithwaite and Restorative Justice: Crime Prevention and Control
Having spent the past couple of years working on Psychology films we’ve decided to turn our efforts towards a new volume of crime videos – a follow-up to “Shortcuts to Crime and Deviance Volume 1” imaginatively called “Volume 2”. We burnt the candle at both ends to come up with that corker. Anyway, one of […]
EySKuBe: The Addiction Simulation
To complement the free chapter on addictive behaviour you can give your students a taste of addictive behaviour with this simple – and harmless – simulation. This was originally created by Todd Campbell (Texas A & M University) and the instructions here are filtered through the work of Linda Walsh (University of Northern Iowa) Purpose The […]
Behind the Statistics
Now available On-Demand, the third in a trilogy of related psychology research methods films (the first and second look at Experimental and Non-Experimental Research Methods respectively) examines how statistical data are collected, compared and explained through an examination of three key issues in this process:
GCSE AQA Sociology Revision Guides
I recently came across this interesting set of guides for the AQA Spec., written by Lydia Hiraide of The BRIT School. The guides are dated 2013 – and although I’m not sure how they might fit into the latest Specification, I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot here that’s still relevant. You can download […]
Sociology ShortCuts: State Crime
The ShortCuts series of films Is designed to give teachers and students very brief introductions to / overviews of a range of contemporary sociological ideas through the medium of leading academics. In this film, Professor Sandra Walklate offers a quick (2-minute) illustrated introduction to the concept of “the criminality of the State”. Please note that […]
Free Chapter: The Psychology of Addictive Behaviour
The third – and probably final – free chapter from Holt and Lewis’ “A2 Psychology: The Student’s Textbook”, this one covers addictive behaviour in terms of main areas: 1. Models Biological, cognitive and learning models of addiction, including explanations for initiation, maintenance and relapse Explanations for specific addictions, including smoking and gambling 2. Factors affecting […]
Psychology Factsheets: Buy or DIY?
A couple of months ago this blog featured examples of Sociology Factsheets created and sold by the Curriculum Press and this month it’s the turn of Psychology, of which I’ve found the following examples: Eyewitness Testimony: New Research Gifted Children Stress at work Eating disorders Biological and psychological models of abnormality Nature-Nurture debate The Cognitive approach to […]
A2 Psychology: Free Chapter on Relationships
A couple of months ago I posted a free chapter on Research Methods from Holt and Lewis’ “A2 Psychology: The Student’s Textbook” and this latest offering is on Relationships and covers three main areas: The formation, maintenance and breakdown of romantic relationships Theories of the formation, maintenance and breakdown of romantic relationships: e.g. reinforcement-affect theory, […]
Crime, Deviance and Methods: Self-report Questionnaire
Opportunities for students to link crime, deviance and research methods in a practical way are often limited by the constraints of time and space – but one simple approach that can be used effectively in the classroom is a self-report crime questionnaire. Although there are a few of these kicking around (from Ann Campbell’s onward…) […]