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Useful A Level Psychology Resouces
What happens in the brain when you get dumped? Helen Fisher and her colleagues put people who were in love and people who had just been dumped in an MRI scanner. In this video she talks about her findings about love in humans and animals.
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Relationships
If you are studying Anomalistic Psychology, or even if you are not, you will probably be very interested in this TED talk by world famous skeptic, James Randi. Watch as he explains the tricks that "psychic mediums", or charlatans as he calls them, use to fool you into thinking they have supernatural powers.
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Anomalistic Psychology
Now that the new academic year is starting, Resource of the week returns with a nice lesson activity for Cognitive Development.
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Lesson Activities
Resource of the week returns on Friday. For now here is a cartoon from Abstruse Goose that may be useful for Evolutionary Psychology.
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Evolutionary Psychology
Friday, 06 March 2009 13:59
Adjust the Slider to Understand Different Types of Correlation
Written by Keiron Walsh
This week's A Level Psychology featured resource is a flash animation that illustrates correlation coefficients graphically. You adjust the slider to display a scattergram of sample data that has a correlation coefficient equal to the slider's value. This is an invaluable teaching resource to help students understand correlational relationships
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Data Analysis
Resource of the week: VassarStats Statistical Computation
This week's resource of the week is an online method of checking you have calculated your statistics correctly for your coursework.
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Data Analysis
Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:47
New Study Skills, Revision Methods and Exam Techniques DVD
Written by Keiron Walsh
Uniview have released a new DVD on Study Skills, Revision Methods and Exam Techniques by Cara Flannagan, the well known A Level Psychology Author.
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Misc.
I have updated the AS Psychology section of the VLE resources. There are a number of interactive quizzes and lessons as well as worksheets and PowerPoint files. All of these resources have creative commons licences, therefore you are free to copy, distribute, modify them or put them on your own VLE, as long as you credit Keiron Walsh as the author and link back to this site. Or copy and paste the following:
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Our featured A Level Psychology resource this week is the COPE Inventory which measures the extent to which a person uses emotion-focused coping styles, such as seeking emotional social support, denial and venting of emotions and problem focused styles, such as seeking instrumental social support, planning and active coping.
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Friday, 16 January 2009 06:23
Lots of Resources for AQA-A A Level Psychology
Written by Keiron Walsh
The British Psychological Society's fantastic research digest has this week released lots of great materials relevant to the new AQA-A specification.
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