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Saturday, 10 May 2008 14:32 |
Resource of the Week: Edward Thorndike's Puzzle Box Video This week's resource is a video clip showing one of Edward Thorndike's experiments with his puzzle box. Thorndike put hungry cats in these boxes and put pieces of tasty fish outside them to motivate them to escape. To escape, the cats had to push a lever and pull on a string. When first put in the box, the cats would behave in a fairly random way, pacing up and down, scratching at the sides etc., but eventually, by chance, they would push the lever and pull on the string in the correct sequence. They would then be rewarded by being able to eat the fish.
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Friday, 02 May 2008 15:12 |
Resource of the Week: Psychometric TestsThis week's resource of the week is TESTdex, which is an INdex (get it?) of personality and intelligence tests, including the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Cattell's 16 factor test, the F-scale Authoritarian personality test, a visual fluid intelligence test and a number fluid intelligence test, as well as various IQ tests.
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 11:57 |
Resource of the Week: FreeMindThis week's resource is an open source software application for creating Mind Maps. A great resource for A level Psychology exam revision. Because FreeMind is open source it is completely free; it is free to download and use with no restrictions and you are even free to modify the source code and make it better if you are a programmer.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:02 |
Animations for Teaching Psychology This weeks resource is a series of flash animations from South Western State University Georgia. Some of them are useful for A Level Psychology. I particularly enjoyed the comparison of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
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Monday, 14 April 2008 09:24 |
Resource of the Week: Social Influence Activities This week's resource is a set of classroom activities for teaching social influence.
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Monday, 24 March 2008 13:55 |
Asch Video Here is a very good video clip of the Solomon Asch conformity study:
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:29 |
Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory and Bobo Doll Video Albert Bandura proposed that most behaviour develops through imitating others, although some develops through conditioning. Unlike behaviourism, however, Bandura’s theory also takes into account the role of cognition; learning can occur without a corresponding change in behaviour. Social learning theory also suggests that reinforcements and punishments merely determine whether a learned behaviour is exhibited.
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 10:54 |
Operant Conditioning and Remote Controlled Rats This week's resource of the week is this very interesting video clip showing how the decisions of rats can be controlled by directly manipulating the reinforcements they receive through stimulation of the pleasure centres in their brains. In essence, this produces a remote controlled rat. As well as being an interesting example of operant conditioning, it also raises issues regarding free will and determinism.
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 16:15 |
Zimbardo's Prison SimulationThis weeks resource of the week is this video of the prison simulation by Zimbardo et al. It is in 3 parts, scroll down for each one.
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 12:19 |
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture If you were a lecturer and knew that you were going to die, what would you say to your students in your last lecture?
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Monday, 25 February 2008 20:28 |
Test Your Mental Health This week's resource has been sent in by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, so I would like to thank them for this very interesting resource. You can use this to help you learn about and understand the symptoms of a number of psychological disorders, such as Attention Deficit Disorder, OCD, Eating Disorders, Depression and Schizophrenia.
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 17:08 |
Music for Psychology Lessons I hope you like this week's resource of the week as much as I do. 
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 14:37 |
Free Full Length Psychology Videos This week's resource of the week is a fabulous website that gives you free access to good quality abnormal psychology videos. These 30 minute videos are perfect for display on interactive whiteboards.
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 08:36 |
Schizophrenia Video A video about schizophrenia made by people suffering from the disease
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