Good Luck in your AS Psychology Exam (and some last minute tips!)

ALevelPsychology.co.uk would like to wish everyone who is sitting tomorrow's AS exam the best of luck. To help you along, I have compiled a list of exam tips:

Liar Liar

There is an interesting story out today, that 15 local councils in the UK are to start using lie detectors to combat benefit fraud. They plan to use a "voice risk analyser" to detect changes in people's voices when asked questions during telephone conversations. Harrow council introduced the equipment last year and have saved £420,000 because one-third of people who were contacted using the equipment admitted that their circumstances had changed and they were no longer eligible for the benefits they were receiving. However, there is doubt over whether these lie detectors actually work.

Can You Help: Psychology Music

I am trying to put together a list of songs that are related to different topics in psychology.

E.g., Brain Damage by Pink Floyd relates well to Schizophrenia

Big Girls (you are beautiful) relates well to Eating Disorders

Zombie Eaters by Faith No More relates brilliantly to attachment

The songs can relate to any area of any A Level Psychology specification

If you would like to contribute to the list, which will be published on this site, please comment below

Stress Response is Gender Specific

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The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is reporting research published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience that shows that different parts of the brain are activated in males and females when confronted with a stressful situation. The researchers examined the activity of participant's brains using fMRI and measured levels of cortisol while they attempted difficult arithmetic problems (high stress) or counted backwards (low stress).

Be a Crime Fighter 

My beloved sister sent me this. It may be interesting for anyone studying the criminal psychology unit in the OCR or Edexcel A level Psychology course. If you are doing AQA it’s still good fun.