Now available to purchase from Uniview Worldwide. This product has immediately made it to number one in their best selling titles list. Plus at £15.00 per title, this compares favourably with many other professionally produced productions, being original, easy to follow and enlightening.

During the filming volunteers are exposed to two mock crimes and become key eyewitnesses. We follow the participants as they relate what they each saw and explore the fallibility of human memory and highlight how memory can be contaminated into remembering events or details that never existed.

Through the witnesses we see first hand how Greater Manchester Police would investigate these crimes in reality, and explore pioneering techniques used to retrieve the memories of victims to serious crimes.

The film includes several activities that can easily be reconstructed in class to allow students to experience for themselves how we all struggle when it comes to encoding, processing and recalling seemingly simple information. Using psychology experts viewers are offered a real insight into the way our brain forms and stores memories as well as accessing the information when required. MRI scanning reveals the activity in participants’ brains as they are asked to recall experiences.

Using several case studies the films explore how the brain recognises faces as a whole entity rather than a collection of individual features and the impact this knowledge has had on the way police forces draw up a list of similar looking suspects. Judicial systems have long relied heavily on eyewitness testimony, but recent research and the rise in the use of DNA has highlighted how precarious this reliance can be. Dr Becky Milne is involved in the ongoing development of the cognitive interview, which applies current psychological knowledge to modern police investigation methods

During episode one, participants witness a fatal stabbing, whereby they recall details of the scenes they were exposed to. Episode two explores whether participants fair any better when exposed to a violent crime second time around in a botched armed robbery. Whereas episode three then focuses on examples of real life cases from individuals who have witnessed violent crimes, as they unravel their true stories.

To celebrate Uniview’s commitment and partnership with the ATP, they are offering one lucky teacher the opportunity to visit the three-day annual conference absolutely free of charge (value of over £250).

In order to win this fantastic competition Uniview are looking for a brand new Psychology poster design to add to their ever expanding collection to be launched at the ATP conference in Keele this July.

This prize includes:

Includes ensuite B&B accommodation Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July
Lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Evening meals on Friday and Saturday
Refreshments
Entrance to all ATP workshops, lectures and exhibitions
Access to online materials before and after the conference.
Winning resource, name and institution unveiled at the ATP conference this July among hundreds of Psychology professionals.
Winning name credited on the psychology poster for display across institutions worldwide.

See here for more details http://www.uniview.co.uk/acatalog/psyposterdesigncomp.html

The closing date is 7th June 2010

Uniview have announced today that they are to film Zimbardo’s talk at the Emmanuel Centre in London. The talk is on the afternoons of Tuesday 18 March and Wednesday 19 March 2008. The DVD ‘Zimbardo Speaks’, will be available shortly afterwards.

Below is the press release.

South West Conferences present a unique opportunity for A level Psychology students to hear legendary Professor Zimbardo talk about his research and new book, and it’s all being caught on film!March is an exciting time for UK students of psychology as The Emmanuel Centre in London welcomes Professor Philip G. Zimbardo to discuss his past research and current book. The revision conference is organised by South West Conferences, a small consultancy company specialising in psychology A level students conferences and Teacher INSET courses, run by psychology teacher and author Cara Flanagan.Professor Zimbardo has previously taught at Yale, Columbia and NYU but was a professor at the Stanford University from 1968 up until his recent retirement. Zimbardo has won many awards for his work and has become a media personality as a result of his captivating studies. He has also been president of both the Western Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.Zimbardo is probably best known for his fascinating 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, whereby college students were assigned the role of guard or inmate in order to study the psychological and behavioural effects of imprisonment. Those selected at random to be ‘guards’ became so sadistic and those acting as ‘prisoners’ so depressed, that the two-week study was stopped after just six days. The study has created such public and media interest that a feature-length film is currently being made by Maverick Films and directed by Oscar winning director, Christopher McQuarrie.

Uniview recently posted their new catalogue out to centres and if you are not on their mailing list, you can go over to their web site and order one. Myself I like trees, so I would suggest that you subscribe to their e-newsletter or just visit their site.