THE INDIVIDUAL IN A SOCIAL WORLD Essays and experiments Stanley Milgram

September 19, 2010

Pinter and Martin have released the 3rd edition of Stanley Milgram’s seminal collection of essays The Individual in a Social World. This third, expanded edition of The Individual in a Social World combines articles that appeared in both of the earlier editions as well as previously uncollected material. Pinter & Martin is an independent publishing [...]

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Science and Pseudoscience

September 15, 2010

Just in case you don’t know, South West Conferences (www.southwestconferences.co.uk) are repeating their extremely popular Science and Pseudoscience conference again this year in Edinburgh, Bristol, Nottingham and London (November 8, 9, 10 and 26). £20 per students plus 1 free teacher for every 10 students. The programme includes magician turned psychologist RICHARD WISEMAN and hypnotist [...]

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Comparing Specifications

September 7, 2010

Cara Flanagan has just posted a comparison table of pass rates for the different boards on the new Folens blog here (which by the way also looks pretty good; I’ve subscribed) The key comment from her psychexchange forum post is: The fact that the different boards probably do attract slightly different cohorts mean that direct [...]

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9 evidence-based study tips

September 2, 2010

BPS Research Digest via 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.” Which can be found on the digest/in the magazine.  Get them [...]

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ATP CPD Event – Don’t Work Harder, Work Smarter

August 31, 2010

Saturday March 5th 2011 The ATP is running a CPD event which is open to all teachers of Psychology. The aim of the day is to provide high quality, low cost CPD for Psychology teachers. The day will consist of interactive workshops given by experienced teachers and examiners on a variety of topics relevant to [...]

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Exam dates for May/June GCE AS/A2 2011

August 31, 2010

AS – May 25th 2011 Wednesday am WJEC    PY1    (1h 15m) OCR    G541   (1h 00m) Edexcel    Unit 1 (1h 20m) AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m) AQA (B)  PSYB2  (1h 30m) AS – June 7th 2011 Tuesday pm AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m) AQA (B)  PSB2  (1h 30m) Edexcel    Unit 2 (1h 40m) OCR    G542  (2h [...]

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Delicious lessons

August 24, 2010

Using delicious & psychexchange resources in lessons and for additional reading provision

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Exam dates for January/February GCE AS/A2 2011

August 24, 2010

AS -   January 12th 2011  Wednesday am Edexcel Unit 1 (1h 20m) AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m) WJEC PY1 (1 h 15m) OCR G541 (1h 00m) AQA (B)  PSYB1 (1h 30m) AS -  January 19th 2011 Wednesday am AQA (A) PSYA2 (1h 30m) WJEC PY2 (1 h 45m) OCR G542 (2h 00m) AQA (B) PSYB2 [...]

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Who am I?

August 19, 2010

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project the Science Museum is hosting a wonderfully interactive gallery named “Who am I?” The Gallery will make for a great visit for psychology students visiting London and is certainly the best museum of interactive psychology currently available in the UK. Students of psychology (especially AS [...]

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BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Case Study

August 16, 2010

Some summer listening (unfortunately not in podcast form): BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Case Study. Claudia Hammond presents a series on case studies that have made a significant contribution to psychological research Next on on Wednesday, John/Joan – The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. Hat tip to mindhacks for this link

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