PsychologyAs a species, we have been getting larger and in some Western societies obesity is now at epidemic levels. So why are we doing so much damage to ourselves, our health services and our planet? Is it mainly due to nurture, the environment? Or is it more to do with nature, our biology? In Rethinking Obesity, featuring contributions from Dr. Clare Llewellyn and Dr. Giles Yeo, we consider the evidence for nurture vs. nature.
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This short revision film uses a real-world example - how to collect data about your education - to illustrate and explain how and why psychologists use self-report methods. The film focuses on:
• questionnaire design
• the uses and limitations of different types of questionnaire
• the uses and limitations of different types of interview
• how to write successful exam answers.
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This short, free to view, film identifies and explains the key ideas and areas you need to revise for your psychology exams:
• positive and negative correlations
• correlation co-efficient
• correlation and causation
• examples: media and violence
• ethics and socially-sensitive research
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• types of naturalistic observation
• distinguishing field experiments and naturalistic observation
• evaluating naturalistic observation
• exam tips / checklist
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This short film uses a real world example (the relationship between learning and time of day) to explore 3 different types of experimental design:
• Repeated Measures
• Independent Measures
• Matched Pairs
The film explores their respective strengths and weaknesses as each design is applied to the learning example
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This tightly-focused revision film focuses on the key ideas and skills needed to successfully answer exam questions on laboratory experiments. The film covers key:
• definitions - experimental aim, method and environment
• concepts: dependent and independent variables
• examples: Bandura, Maguire, Stroop Effect
• evaluation: the strengths and limitations of this method
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What are Natural Experiments?
How do they differ from Field or Laboratory experiments?
Are there different types?
What does this particular method give to psychologists that other research methods don't?
This short video examines these questions in the context of Costello et al's "Great Smokey Mountains Study" of the relationship between poverty, children's behaviour and mental health.
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This film uses a range of classic studies to take you through the key ideas and skills required to produce an excellent exam answer. The film covers:
• defining field experiments
• applications: Hofling, Piliavin, Fisher and Geiselman
• why psychologists use field experiments
• evaluation: the strengths and limitations of field experiments
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This on-line only compilation brings together four Psychology revision films in one great package for 48-hour rental:
• Naturalistic Observation
• Self-Report Methods
• Cases Studies
• Correlations
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This free-to-view film outlines some key aspects of these important methodological concepts through a range of real-world examples:
• internal and external reliability
• standardisation and re-testing
• internal and external validity
• different types of validity (face, construct, etc).
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Based around the example of obesity, this film outlines the key ideas underpinning the concept of reductionism. It covers:
• defining reductionism
• the principle of scientific parsimony
• reductionist approaches - strengths and limitations
• holistic approaches - strengths and limitations
• revising reductionism - tips and tricks
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Although the idea of variables can seem dull and uninspiring, they're important because they're everywhere in psychology - and since they come up again and again in exam questions this short film shows you how to:
• define the concept of variables
• identify and describe different types of variable
• relate variables to research methods and results
• show how variables influence reliability and validity.
This film uses some classic psychological studies (Loftus, Maguire, Baron-Cohen, Zimbardo) to illustrate a range of sampling issues:
• definitions (target and sample populations)
• representativeness and generalisability
• types of sampling (probability and non-probability)
• random sampling and random allocation
• the strengths and limitations of different sampling types
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• Individual and situational explanations for behaviour
• Stanford prison experiment and situational theory
• The Lucifer Effect
• Situational factors in aggression
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This free-to-view film highlights a range of ideas and skills required for a good understanding of ethnocentrism. The film covers:
• how ethnocentrism is defined
• how ethnocentrism is socially constructed
• applying knowledge of researcher, conceptual and reporting bias
• evaluating the uses and limitations of ethnocentrism
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This film looks at the nature and significance of ethical guidelines to the research process, using examples drawn from the work of Milgram, Watson and Sharif. The film covers:
• what are ethics?
• ethical guidelines in psychology
• ethical issues in psychology.
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1. Usefulness to psychology
2. Usefulness to society
This film develops the concept of socially-sensitive research in terms of three key questions:
• Should the research be done?
• How should research findings be used?
• How should research findings be communicated?
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1. The George Franklin trial.
2. The "Lost in the Mall" technique, critical reception and further research.
3. Jane Doe and the deconstruction of guided imagination
In this free film experienced Psychology teacher Deb Gajic (The Polesworth School / ATP) looks at some of the changes introduced in the new A-level Psychology Specification and their implications for students, teachers and schools - particularly in relation to application and how this relates to the news Maths requirements.
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In this short film Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply the Sign Test to a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis - the shaping of attitudes towards the death penalty.
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In this short film Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply Spearman's Rho to a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis - the correlation between self and peer-rated aggression.
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Deb Gajic shows you how to calculate and apply the Mann Whitney U Test to a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis - will males score higher on an aggression questionnaire than females?
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Experienced Psychology teacher Deb Gajic shows you how to calculate and apply the Wilcoxen Signed Ranks Test to a contemporary psychological hypothesis - "Participants will score lower on a reaction test after consuming alcohol"
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In this short film Deb Gajic looks at the concept of probability - and how it can be applied in Psychology - through the concepts of:
• statistical significance
• Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
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Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply Chi Square to a contemporary psychological context - Piaget's Conservation Experiment - using the experimental hypothesis "7 year olds will be more likely to be able to conserve than 5 year olds"
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Are serial killers literally different from the rest of us? And, if so, how? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon thought he'd uncovered the defining characteristics of the 'killer brain', only to discover that he too had the brain and genes of what he calls a 'really bad news character'. So why wasn't Fallon a killer? This film looks at Fallon's story to explore this question, illuminating the neurological and genetic bases of aggression, nature/nurture and epigenetics along the way and giving a new angle on the age-old question of whether what happens to us in early childhood can send us towards deviance or conformity...
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This film explores some of the major issues surrounding psychological research in three key areas: Ethics, Socially Sensitive Research and Ethnocentrism
"Nature or Nurture?” is a long-running debate in psychology, one heavily-influenced by developments in genetics and a rise in the popular belief that "dna is destiny”: the idea human behaviour is broadly is determined by a "good” or a "bad” roll of the genetic dice. This 3-part film, featuring contributions from Dr Nessa Carey and Dr Guy Sutton, goes "Beyond Genetics” to explore recent developments in the field of Epigenetics that show the way genes actually work is shaped by environmental influences – a development that introduces a new and exciting dimension to the debate.
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Jirtle and Waterland’s Agouti Mouse Study has been called one of the most important pieces of research in the 21st century and this film explores both it’s substance and significance for the Nature-Nurture debate in psychology and sociology.
The film, featuring extensive contributions from Randy Jirtle and original film laboratory film from the Agouti Study, is divided into three sections:
1. The Context to the study.
2. The Agouti Mouse Experiment.
3. Reactions and Implications.
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