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The doctors reveal how to stick to those health resolutions made at New Year.

A2: Our sleep hygiene study + pineapple (bizarrely) and it's effects on melatonin on 'Trust me I'm a Doctor' this week. Some easy revision and some other interesting shopping/food consumption behavioural research. Spot the extraneous variable in the clementine-before-supermarket study.

Video games frequently stand accused of corrupting the young - but is this true?

A2: One essay in one hour long programme. Brilliant research comparisons and criticisms of either side of the debate. This is for our later media influence module in PSYA4 but watch it or ‘screen grab’ it while it’s still on Iplayer. Easiest homework ever!

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Britain is on the brink of a technological revolution. Rohan Silva investigates.

All: On now, can artificial intelligence take our jobs? Links to the cognitive approach and technological change in media influence/relationships at A2.

A2 Homework: 5th Sep 15: Write out in prose a 200 hundred word piece on how SLT can explain the video above. i.e) How might it be vicariously reinforcing or punishing for the viewers of the video (Think muggers and “little Karate girls” Use all of the key terms: attention, role models, retention (mental representation), production: imitation depends on self efficacy, motivation: outcome expectancy and vicarious rewards/punishments, direct experience. Due 17th Sept on google classroom, write it in word for the minute and be ready to upload it to the assignment once I’ve finished moving the groups around from last year. Also Here’s early warning of a timed assessment on social psychological explanations of aggression, institutional aggression and neural mechanisms too, second lesson week beginning 21st September. Any questions email me.

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10,000 hours anyone?

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Some inspirational street art that the Art department at PHSG posted. Some good perceptual Psychology in there too.

A2: I know you’re not thinking about PSYA4 just now but... could this be most ‘fear’ ever in a mouthwash ad. Too much for Hovland-Yale, or too peripheral for ELM?

Today's Hottie of the Week is Franz Ritter von Liszt, better known simply as Franz Liszt. Born in 1811, Liszt is considered one of the greatest composers in Classical music and was considered by hi...

A2: Apparently “The greatest pianist ever,” created such intense fandom that his followers went to absurd lengths to get mementos from him and also predated Tom Jones by several hundred years by throwing their pants at him! On QI Stephen Fry suggested that he had been stabbed by a stalker. I smell a... “Celebrity stalking is not a new phenomenon” AO2 point. Try applying the absorption addiction model to it.

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A2: Just saw this on family guy. Central or peripheral?

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A2: Finally got the bug myself so here’s cover for today. Top tips for the PSYA3/4 exams for you to think about. Also carry on with the research methods papers and I’ll post the exemplar answer to that last one on here later in the week. If I didn’t see you on Friday your mock should be behind my keyboard in A06. Keep asking questions, in between sweating and painkillers I’ll try and answer any emails.

The best A02 from each of the 6 aggression sections. Write full A02 paragraphs for the best A02 from each of the following aggression sections. Include an IDA under each section other than RWA. Each section must have a RWA. Include any possible BPAs that are new stand alone A02 points. 1.) Social Psychological explanations of aggression 2.) institutional aggression 3.) Neural/Hormonal explanations of aggression. 4.) Genetic explanations of aggression 5.) Evolutionary explanations of aggression including infidelity and jealousy 6.) Evolutionary explanations of group display (for example sports and warfare)

A2: The scarlet fever outbreak in the Baines household continues so here’s some cover for today. A timely reminder on IDAs for PSYA3 made by a group of students from last year. Have a look through and make sure you’ve got at least one, decent, well elaborated and effective para for each of the possible titles. Email me if you;ve got any questions.

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AS: Nearly there folks, keep going! If anyone’s got any burning questions at any point email me, I’ll try and be online as much as possible over the weekend. I’ll post anything relevant on here too, if I think it needs sharing. Just be careful with the predictions that are floating around out there (Loopa psychology), it’s impossible to predict now and having “less on more,” is better than gambling. There is no 12 mark possible “Strategies for improving memory“ essay, they can only ask you to apply or describe strategies and perhaps in a separate question explain how they work. So make sure you can apply the WMM to method of Loci/memory palace (that’s there’s more than one type of encoding going on), same applies for mind maps. Equally, acronyms and the story/link method work partly because of elaborative rehearsal, linking it to things you already have firmly in LTM. Keep the questions coming and good luck!

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A2: In missing today's lesson with the group I really needed to see I've decided to put the mock back by a week, so it will now be on the Wednesday 6th of May (A27: 13:30 bring some lunch, or if you want to start the paper early come to A06 12:00). Good luck!

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A2: Cover for Friday period 3 and 4: Read nthrough the section in the textbook on peer review and the validation of new knowledge. How does this article relate to it. “Agency calls for publication of all results.”

AS: Plymouth University Psychology open day: After talking about this for the whole year the open day is finally here, this Friday, the 17th of April. We’ll meet in front of the building shown above, under the rain cover if it’s raining or on the grass if not. Be there at 9:15 at the very latest, and don’t go to school first, I will register you there when you arrive. You have been excused from lessons for the day, but must go to see your teachers to make sure you catch up on any work missed. Hopefully it will be another excellent offering of some of the following:

The Psychology department open day at the University involves the following: Brief lectures on the following topics: The role of media representations in body image and the lure of plastic surgery Exploring the minds of babies Eyewitness Memory The role of imitation in understanding Stop! How do we stop ourselves from responding, Racism, Fear, and Drugs. Please note: each school will have the opportunity to partake in 5 of the following activities. These will be chosen at random:

Tour and demonstrations in the Plymouth BabyLab

3D tracking and Stroop: a new dimension

Visual and auditory illusions

Environmental Psychology

Eyewitness identification of ‘criminals’

Using Virtual Reality in social psychology

Hypnotic sensibility using Chevreul’s pendulum

Inaccuracies in body size assessment between ideal and actual body image

Demonstration of Brain Imaging and physiological measures.

It is an invaluable day of real world research so take every opportunity to make notes and ask questions. Students will be dismissed from the University at the end. It is likely to run into lunch and period 5 so I will dismiss you from there.

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AS: Reminder of the Psychology mock exam April 15th. Meet in A27 at 1:40. Make sure you get some lunch beforehand quickly. Period 5s given back to you in return. Therefore keep revising as homework. Link: Not sure what the difference is between an extraneous variable and a confounding variable is? This simple animation explains it quite well.

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