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This short video clip introduced by Albert Bandura shows excerpts from his famous Bobo doll experiments.
It is a shame that Bandura has more mentions in UK psychology textbooks for his limited laboratory work on Bobo dolls rather than his excellent contributions to psychology via self-efficacy and social cognitive theories.
Although I don’t suppose he is bothered [...]

Hodder Education will be first on the market to publish AQA(A) Psychology for AS resources. Fully tailored to the new 2008 AQA(A) Psychology specification this resource is supported by Student CD-ROM and a Network Edition CD-ROM for teachers. Both the book and the supporting Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs are written by best-selling authors and trusted experts [...]

If you would like to meet Professor Zimbardo and ask him some questions, you may want to attend this conference set up by Cara Flanagan through South West Conferences.
This conference offers a unique opportunity to hear one of the legends in psychology.
In a special extended afternoon session, Professor Zimbardo will discuss his research with special [...]

Hodder Education will be first on the market to publish AQA(A) Psychology for AS resources. Fully tailored to the new 2008 AQA(A) Psychology specification this resource is supported by Student CD-ROM and a Network Edition CD-ROM for teachers. Both the book and the supporting Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs are written by best-selling authors and trusted experts [...]

I received, via email, an animated model of the multi-store model of memory. Here it is    multistoremodel.swf  I have since been noted by Keiron Walsh that he is the creator of the animation.   Apologies and here is a link to Keiron’s excellent psychology resources blog - www.alevelpsychology.co.uk   Do check out the site as there are [...]

This short video clip introduced by Albert Bandura shows excerpts from his famous Bobo doll experiments.
It is a shame that Bandura has more mentions in UK psychology textbooks for his limited laboratory work on Bobo dolls rather than his excellent contributions to psychology via self-efficacy and social cognitive theories.
Although I don’t suppose he is bothered [...]

These four video clips are taken from the excellent BBC series, ‘The Trap’.

 
They take a highly critical look at the biological/medical approach to abnormality.   
The first clip introduces R.D. Laing’s anti psychiatric approach.
This second clip summarises David Rosenhan’s study ‘On being sane in insane places’.   
This third clip criticises the use of psychiatric labels. [...]

If you are a teacher of psychology, please do visit PsychExchange, which is a resource-sharing site for psychology teachers. Here you will be able to upload, share and exchange files, resources, and ideas for lessons, schemes of work or inspections.
At the time of writing this post, PsychExchange, which some teachers have named the ‘Napster of [...]

Welcome to the AQA PsychBLOG.
Our aim is to provide psychology teachers and students following the AQA specifications with resources and ideas to facilitate and stimulate the studying and teaching of psychology.
Right now, we have Jamie and Mark writing and hope to add to our list of writers. If you want to give it a go, [...]