Channel 4 Documentary Difficulty level: moderate This riveting TV series follows three convicted murderers through 3 hour long episodes to determine whether they truly had control over their actions, or whether hidden factors meant they couldn’t avoid their crime. It is lead by forensic psychologist Dr Vicky Thakordas-Desai and neurocriminologist Professor Adrian Raine. Thakordas-Desai investigates […]
Month: December 2021
Therapy dogs: the future of health treatment?
Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT, also referred to as Pet Therapy) is an up and coming new treatment method which has excited both psychologists and doctors around the world. To give a definition, it is the guided interaction between a person and a trained animal through a formal, structured set of sessions. This is similar to Animal-Assisted […]
Nature vs Nurture
If you had to narrow down all aspects of who you are to a single reason, would you argue that the components of your persona are innate, or that they were moulded by society? Has your biological makeup influenced the characteristics that set you apart from others, or is the way you’ve grown in society […]
Year 13 Summer Project Summaries
Investigating the effect of physical appearances on our unconscious biases during decision making – Sasha Hawksworth The study used 35 individuals from the ages of 17-55 and assessed their responses to their preferences in hiring in the workplace. Participant’s responses were obtained through a questionnaire consisting of a set of 10 pairs of photos testing […]
A level topic summaries
Clinical Psychology This is when psychology is used to help understand and treat psychological distress, illness or dysfunction. A clinical psychologist is someone who takes into account many different factors involved in a person’s life, such as emotional, biological and social aspects. This means that they are able to understand, prevent and alleviate symptoms and […]
📖Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely Non-fiction Difficulty level: easy Predictably Irrational begins with an introduction that transports you into the world of behavioural economics, outlining the growing usefulness of the field in the economic world. However, despite the slightly term-heavy short start, Ariely then leads the reader into fascinating explanations of how we are systematically irrational in our […]
📖Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Centuary
Lauren Slater Non-fiction Difficulty level: easy In this exciting and page-turning book, Slater takes you through the 10 most interesting and revolutionary psychological experiments of the 20th centuary, starting with B.F. Skinner’s rats in boxes and ending with the founder of lobotomies: Antonio Moniz. Even though it is a non-fiction publication, through the author’s enthralling […]