Neuroscience
This post is for A-level students and teachers in the UK following the new AQA Specification A for psychology. It provides a taste of relevant material available from the Research Digest blog and The Psychologist magazine (marked with a 'P'). For more material, use the Digest blog's search facility (see box to the right) and The Psychologist magazine's search facility (see box in top left-hand corner of its website), and please remember that new material is being added all the time.
AS topics
Memory
A2 Topics
Biological Rhythms and sleep
- The Digest Guide To ... Studying
10 years of the Research DigestThis month is the tenth anniversary of the launch of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest (as an email newsletter back in 2003). To mark the anniversary, this week I'm going to delve into the archive...
- 9 Evidence-based Study Tips
The September issue of The Psychologist magazine is a free-to-view student special containing a feature (pdf) by the Research Digest editor on the journey from A-level to Undergrad psychology, including the following 9 evidence-based study tips:...
- Students: It's Time To Ditch The Pre-exam All-nighter
Lack of sleep impairs the human brain's ability to store new information in memory, researchers have found. Past research has already shown that sleep is vital for consolidating recently-learned material but now Matthew Walker and colleagues have...
- Clever Children's Brains Develop Differently
An investigation into the link between intelligence and brain development, rare in its use of a longitudinal methodology and large sample size, has found superior intelligence is associated with particularly dynamic developmental changes to the cortex...
- Disturbing Memories Caused By Disturbed Sleep?
Contributed by Lucy Rowe at Totton College. Whether it’s possible for memories of a traumatic experience to be forgotten, only to be recovered years later remains controversial. One concern is that people who report experiencing fragments of buried...
Neuroscience
Resources for A-level teachers and students following the AQA spec A syllabus
This post is for A-level students and teachers in the UK following the new AQA Specification A for psychology. It provides a taste of relevant material available from the Research Digest blog and The Psychologist magazine (marked with a 'P'). For more material, use the Digest blog's search facility (see box to the right) and The Psychologist magazine's search facility (see box in top left-hand corner of its website), and please remember that new material is being added all the time.
AS topics
Memory
- State of the art: Working memory (P)
- Identifying people caught on video (P)
- How to improve your memory (P)
- Link to Digest items on memory
- State of the art – attachment theory (P)
- Childhood neglect leaves its mark
- The Psychologist has regular columns and sections on ethics and methods. Particularly relevant to a student audience is "The use and abuse of student participants"
- Link to methods-related Digest items
- Examination stress and test anxiety (P)
- Protection from the stress of being a long-term carer
- Obedience and the banality of evil (P)
- Identifying the tools of persuasion used by the BNP
- Beliefs about delusions (P)
- Link to mental health related Digest items
A2 Topics
Biological Rhythms and sleep
- State of the art: Sleep (P)
- Link to Digest items related to sleep
- One brain two visual systems (P)
- Looking for longer but seeing less
- Lovesickness (P)
- Why you should take extra care when buying gifts for a man
- Bullying in prisons (P)
- Patients on secure wards more likely to be aggressive to staff of the same sex
- Special issues on eating (P)
- How a dentist visit can trigger anorexia
- Testosterone and male behaviours (P)
- Women need female role models
- Thinking about intelligence (P)
- Has average intelligence started to decline?
- Social cognition in teenagers (P)
- Another look at a mistake babies make
- Special issue on diagnosis (P)
- Link to related Digest items
- Celebrity worship (P)
- Winning gold - comparing media coverage in America and Japan
- Parapsychology (P)
- How experimenters influenced participants in the ganzfeld paradigm
- The Digest Guide To ... Studying
10 years of the Research DigestThis month is the tenth anniversary of the launch of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest (as an email newsletter back in 2003). To mark the anniversary, this week I'm going to delve into the archive...
- 9 Evidence-based Study Tips
The September issue of The Psychologist magazine is a free-to-view student special containing a feature (pdf) by the Research Digest editor on the journey from A-level to Undergrad psychology, including the following 9 evidence-based study tips:...
- Students: It's Time To Ditch The Pre-exam All-nighter
Lack of sleep impairs the human brain's ability to store new information in memory, researchers have found. Past research has already shown that sleep is vital for consolidating recently-learned material but now Matthew Walker and colleagues have...
- Clever Children's Brains Develop Differently
An investigation into the link between intelligence and brain development, rare in its use of a longitudinal methodology and large sample size, has found superior intelligence is associated with particularly dynamic developmental changes to the cortex...
- Disturbing Memories Caused By Disturbed Sleep?
Contributed by Lucy Rowe at Totton College. Whether it’s possible for memories of a traumatic experience to be forgotten, only to be recovered years later remains controversial. One concern is that people who report experiencing fragments of buried...