Revising Psychology: Laboratory Experiments
Short psychology revision film focused on helping students understand and apply the required skill domains.
Key Studies and Maths in Psychology
While students who decide to take Psychology at A-level or in High School may be generally aware it involves “some sort of mathematical component”, as the British Psychological Society perceptively notes: “Students beginning A-Level psychology are often disheartened to learn that mathematics is an inescapable part of the subject. Many students are drawn to psychology […]
Psychological Studies Extended
A previous post featured the work of Psychology Teacher Maryam Jabeen and her deconstructions of 20 classic psychological studies that feature as part of the Cambridge International Exam Board’s Psychology Specification. As you’ll no-doubt know (because you will have followed the link above – not the CIE one, the 20-studies one) Jabeen stripped these studies […]
Psychological Studies Deconstructed
Although this a-level psychology site doesn’t seem to have been updated for a couple of years there’s still plenty here students and teachers will find very useful – particularly, but not exclusively, clear, concise and well-focused notes on a range of classic studies. To add to the general air of usefulness the notes on each […]
Psychology: Classic Studies Resources
A few years back, around 2006 to be more-precise than is actually warranted by the evidence, Online Classroom (the predecessor of ShortCutstv) made a number of short films under the general heading of Classic Psychological Studies. While the films are still around to buy if you want to look for them, the technical quality is, […]
Psychological Studies: A Free Text
40 Studies that Changed Psychology is a free (presumably because it’s around 10 years old and out-of-print) text I discovered while rooting around the Web that offers-up a selection of influential psychological studies that, in the opinion of its author Roger Hock, changed the way we think about – and in some cases do – […]
Mind Changers
Mind Changers was a long-running BBC Radio series broadcast between 2003 – 2015 that “explored the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century” – something achieved through a series of 30-minute interviews with / about some of the major psychological thinkers of the past century. The 33 episodes currently in the BBC […]
Experimental Methods in Psychological Research
The first in a trilogy of related psychology research methods films (the second looks at Non-Experimental Research Methods and the third goes “Behind the Statistics” to examine how these are socially constructed), Experimental Methods is a three-part film that illustrates different dimensions of experimental research – Laboratory, Field and Natural experiments – using a mix […]
False Memories
A lot of work has been done on research into memory – and, in particular, how malleable it can prove to be – since the challenge that developed in the 1990’s to the idea of “recovered memories”; traumatic memories that had apparently lain dormant in certain individuals until they were recovered through psychotherapy. Elizabeth Loftus’ […]
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memory
Divided into three complementary sections: • Repressed Memories • Lost in the Mall • Guided Imagination False Memory features original interview footage with Elizabeth Loftus as she takes us through the “Memory Wars” surrounding the George Franklin and Jane Doe cases.