Here is a guide to writing the Analysis section. Enjoy!
Write your IA at home – helpful guidelines for writing the IA: the Introduction.
Please click on the video link below for a detailed guide as to how to write the Introduction to the IA – and what to avoid doing!
Cultural Dimensions – study at home with this helpful, narrated ppt!
This unit of work covers the topic of what culture is, Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, a guide as to how to navigate Hofstede’s page and a focus on the Individualistic/Collectivist dimension. There are lots of videos, tasks and input from students required. Here is the link to the video:
Online teaching and learning
Many of us are now teaching our classes through a virtual learning environment. Most had very little notice, maybe one or two days, and are now on the steepest learning curve ever. Here are a few tips, followed by some very useful sites and links: Several online sites are very kindly offering teachers free access to psychology resources for at … Read More
Planning your course effectively – more overlaps
Similarly to the biological approach, there are many overlaps between the cognitive approach and the options of abnormal psychology, development, health and human relationships. For example, the psychology of cognitive processes and their reliability can explain clinical biases in diagnosis of disorders, debates regarding the etiology of disorders and also inform their treatment. Watch out for more of these!
Agonists – what are they?
Biological psychology has come to the fore over the past years. The mapping of the human genome combined with improved brain-scanning techniques has meant that the biological correlation to psychological conditions is more easily identifiable, and it is clear that many mental disorders like major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia are explainable through a gene x environment interaction. This … Read More
Child Poverty
Psychology comes right up to date with the study of the effects of child poverty on cognitive and social development. In Psychology Sorted we make the link between child poverty, brain imaging technology and child development. We could just as easily have also added in an abnormal psychology link to mental health, for as child poverty rates in the US and … Read More