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SAD NEWS: The legendary social psychologist Dr Phil Zimbardo, famous for the Stanford Prison Experiment and later his Heroic Imagination Project, has died. He lived a remarkable life that touched literally millions. The family's statement on his website: https://t.co/sDtsyeek31🧵
@psychmag B.F. Skinner’s development of pigeon-guided missiles for use in war time as part of ‘Project Pigeon’. He went to great lengths and received significant funding government funding too before the project was cancelled.
Endel Tulving drew a distinction between the facts we learn and the experiences we remember, which he argued are part of what makes us human. https://t.co/PBtGtg4JLX
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Get #alevelpsychology booklets, written by an examiner, that cover all possible #aqapsychology essays in min detail needed for full marks, laid out in essay structure, with all evaluation PEELed & exam Qs throughout, below:
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@rebeccapsych101@MrTs_NQTs@chatpsychology Not a resource but I remember staying v late to create 4 huge displays each on a different approach - my psychodynamic board had huge devil horns & angel wings, my biological board had a huge brain and for some reason a syringe going into it I seem to remember 🤷♂️🤣 etc etc 🤦♂️
Born OTD in 1904: BF. Skinner.
The pioneer of operant conditioning & radical behaviourism, his life, career & contribution to psychology make for fascinating reading. Get your copy of Who the Hell is BF Skinner here ⬇️
https://t.co/XejQlArupq
@Mr_LukeHarrison @PaulCline_psy @mikehobbiss @CHopeResources @mindfulmiss1 @Findlotte@Waldenkent I like the idea of telling the story of how things have progressed since following on from the classic studies/theories covered on the A Level. This could even then be used to evaluate those studies/theories.
🔈 Psychology Teachers!
If a new service launched tomorrow, offering regular Psychology Factsheets/Articles for a subscription, what would you want those Factsheets to cover?
@mikehobbiss @Mr_LukeHarrison @CHopeResources @mindfulmiss1 @Findlotte@Waldenkent @PaulCline_psy
@PaulCline_psy @mikehobbiss @Mr_LukeHarrison @CHopeResources @mindfulmiss1 @Findlotte@Waldenkent I like the idea of clearly signposted ‘on-spec’ and ‘off-spec’ articles to cater for different needs.
I take your point about Psyc Review but the idea would be that the resources more interactive/easy to incorporate into lessons.
If you’re looking for some #ALevelPsychology related reading, this book is all about the life and work of the man voted the most influential psychologist of the 20th Century! 📖 🐀👇
https://t.co/NLzhsyphWG
Biopsychology: A great demonstration of how our visual centres in the occipital lobes do not simply receive visual information from eyes, but build a picture from often partial or incomplete information.
#ALevelPsychology#Biopsychology
This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have colour. 😲
Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses.
https://t.co/VtPetspjL8