Welcome to the Psychology Blog!

This is an exciting way for students to see Psychology in an interactive way! You can expect to see on here all the topic areas we cover in lessons plus extra information with useful links to websites in order to aid revision for exams.

Links to newspapers and other articals will be posted on here regulary to help encourage students to see Psychology from a different perspective. There is a wonderful world full of Psychological happenings, so keep an eye on here for updates!


Enjoy the Blog!

Miss Carpenter

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Derren Brown - Deindividuation (Aggression topic)


Derren Brown: The Gameshow
In The Gameshow, the second show in The Experiment series, Derren Brown turns himself into the host of a game show and investigates whether we all have the capacity for evil and whether or not being part of a group affects our sense of right and wrong.
Shrouded in the usual secrecy, each of the stand-alone episodes takes the form of a giant social experiment. Some have been inspired by classic psychology tests, others concocted by Derren himself to illustrate how easily our behaviour can be manipulated.
Derren will attempts to explore the darker side of what makes us tick as human beings and, in one show, teach us how to completely change our fortunes
Featuring Derren Brown's unique combination of ingenious and mind-blowing psychology, suggestions, stunts and thought-provoking entertainment, The Experiments sees him pushing the boundaries of size and scale in order to take a deeper look at human behaviour and reaction

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-the-experiments/4od#3258649

Aggression Articles

Interesting articles on Aggression for you to read.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/23/boy-torturers-child-abuse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_4215000/4215173.stm

http://alevelpsychology.co.uk/a2-psychology-aqa-a/unit-3/social-psychology/aggression/social/psychological-factors/social-psychological-explanations-of-institutional-aggression.html


AS Revision sessions including dates

Well done to all who attended the revision session last night. It was extremely beneficial to you all.

Unit 1 Session 1 kicks off next Tuesday (20th November)

The remaining session dates are as follows:

Unit 2:  20th Nov, 11th Dec & 8th Jan
Unit 2: 4th Dec & 15th Jan