Jenny Turner from Grimsby has sent us a copy of her Synoptic Toolkit worksheet. Inspired by the Introductory chapter in the ‘dog book’, she devised this worksheet to help her A2 students with the A2 synoptic topics. I have attached it here and it is also available at Psychexchange – a great sharing site for those of you who haven’t discovered it yet.
Posts published during 2009
The AS WJEC textbook will be published by October 23rd. In the meantime you can download some chapters for free – click on ‘sample chapters’ on the tool bar.
Research due to be published this autumn in the USA journal Cancer suggests that too much stress can impact on surviving cancer. This study was a meta-analysis of 3.8 million people, cancer sufferers diagnosed between 1973 and 2004. Married people were found to have a 5 year survival rate of 63% compared to a 45% rate for those who were separated. The explanation offered is that the stress of a break-up in a serious relationship interferes with healing and recovery, and hence survival rates. The researchers suggest that the love and support of a partner is a key factor in battling illness, even one as serious as cancer, and their findings are supported by many previous studies. Of course, important other factors are also relevant – how many can you think of?
Earlier this year Professor Albert Bandura visited London and presented a fascinating talk on the application of social learning theory (SLT – now called social cognitive theory). An edited version of this talk is in the June edition of The Psychologist (which is free online here). The research he discussed provides great support for SLT as well as demonstrating its application to the real world.The talk focused on how SLT is being used to tackle urgent global problems. For example, in Tanzania the current population is 36 million. This is predicted to soar to Read the rest of this entry »
An interesting article here.
It would be nice to ask students whether they felt that they could explain these behaviours – a useful little introduction to the types and levels of explanation that psychologists put forward.
A short presentation plus a great track, have a look at this.
The ideal kitchen accessory for all culinary psychologists….
Very nice little interactive diagram to be found here. You click on an activity such as ‘speech’ or ‘memory’ and the diagram indicates which part of the brain governs such activity.