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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:16

1	Memory Techniques My friend Mad Mike Curtis has devoted most of his life to remembering things and the rest of it to forgetting them. He has produced a very detailed online repository of techniques to improve your memory. He even tells you how to solve a Rubik's Cube
2	Intute Psychology Links Links to many useful psychology sites
3	Psychology News Mark Holah runs an excellent news blog for teachers of A level psychology. Keep up to date with news from the exam boards, book recommendations and more by following the link.
4	Encyclopedia of Psychology Online database of psychology websites, organised by categories to make it easier to find what you need.
5	Click Psych Links to other psychology sites around the web
6	Simply Psychology Saul McLeod has produced this psychology site, which may be useful to A Level students
7	Cool Psychology Stuff If you want to buy equipment for your psychology classes like "Distortion Goggles" or a "Pinwheel Aesthesiometer", or fun items like "Freudian Slippers" or a "Pavlov's dog finger puppet". Then this great site is for you.
8	The Psychology and Philosophy Shop Full-time psychotherapist Teresa Lewis runs an online Psychology and Philosophy Shop where you can purchase some very interesting gifts.
9	Revision World Revision World is a free to use resource for pupils, parents and teachers to help with GCSE’s, AS and A2 levels.
10	Uniview Worldwide Uniview Worldwide is a provider of excellent resources for teaching psychology, such as high quality video's, Freud lollipops and "Mind Altering Goldfish" - must get myself a mind altering goldfish - must get myself a mind altering...
11	International Academy of Investigative Psychology This is the website of the The International Academy for Investigative Psychology. Which defines Investigative Psychology as: "the scientific discipline concerned with the psychological principles, theories and empirical findings that may be applied to investigations and the legal process." It is well worth a visit.
12	Marriage Counseling & Therapist Theravive is a website to help people throughout the US and Canada find therapy and counseling.
13	U Talk Counselling Service U-Talk is a confidential counselling service for London professionals run by qualified and experienced person-centred counsellors offering long and short term therapy.
14	Lifecoach Directory Find a lifecoach in your area
15	Psychology Career Centre An American site that gives you an insight into the different careers available in Psychology.
16	Online Psychology Degrees Guide American site offering online degree courses
17	The Psychology Faculty An excellent bank of video resources for many of the topics in A Level Psychology. Produced by Leeds University

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A new study shows for the first time that monkeys can recall and reproduce simple shapes from memory. Identifying this recall ability is critical to our understanding of the evolution of memory and other cognitive abilities,…

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Sleep Consolidates Learning of Complex Tasks
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A new study which sheds light on some of the functions of sleep has been published in the journal Learning and Memory. According to the research sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people…

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Memory and Emotion: Mixed feelings not remembered as well as happy or sad ones
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Sigmund Freud suggested that traumatic events are forgotten because they are hidden from our conscious awareness, or repressed; Brown and Kulik (1977) found that highly emotional events, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy are…

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Study shows brain's response to sadness can predict relapses into depression
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A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again....

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Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain
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Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain The researchers used a virtual computer model, or 'neural network,' to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the brain; they found that the network…

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Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
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Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
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Piaget believed that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the intelligence of young children, compared with older children and adults. There is a quantitative difference because adults have more knowledge of…

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The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
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Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…

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AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
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In Unit 3 of the AQA-A Psychology Specification, candidates must develop knowledge, understanding and skills of analysis and evaluation in relation to three topics selected from the following:

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How to Spot a Narcissist From Their Facebook Profile
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Narcissism is a personality disorder, characterised by "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy" (DSM IV-TR). Narcissists have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, believe they are special and unique, have…

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