Welcome new AS students!

Hey to all you new AS students,

Welcome to the AS Psychology Blog! The purpose of the blog is to provide you with an opportunity to ask questions, start discussions, stay abreast of what's happening in the fun and thrilling world of Psychology and of course provide you with help throughout the course.

If you have any suggestions please let us know,

Ms Harford

Its time to upgrade

so good people, it is time for you to move over to the A2 blog as we are now going to start using this blog for the incoming students...

A2 blog :  http://www.solschpsychologya2.blogspot.com/

Oh yes, you are now in your final year of study :)

Ms H

Essay Due

Hey

Just to remind everyone you have an essay due Monday

'To what extent is Parapsychology a pseudoscience' [8 AO1 16 AO2]

There is help in the booklet on how to do the essay, I will be expecting at least 3 sides handwritten or 2 sides typed.

Good luck!

Yay Rob!

Rob Blakey has just been awarded 3rd place in a national Psychology Essay Competition run by the University of London.

If you are interested in the essay its here

Rob's Competition Essay

and the website listing the winners and Rob's £250 prize is here

http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/heythrop-psychology-essay-prize-2011.html

Well done Rob

Yay Rob!!

Congratulations to Rob who just won 250 pounds and was awarded 3rd place in a national University of London essay writing competition!!!

http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/heythrop-psychology-essay-prize-2011.html

Amazing job!!

Inspiring TED lecture

Hey,

Inspiring TED lecture

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

Drinking 8 glasses of water is rubbish!

After a quick discussion with a student today I thought I would tag in this as an example of public misconceptions and pseudo science.

A commonly held belief is that drinking more water than you necessarily are thirsty for (e.g. 8 glasses a day) is good and increases attention. However, this belief has evolved in the public conciousness without any foundation from science. It is related to the pseudoscientific concepts of toxins and 'cleansing' the body which don't hold any medical weight. Here is the study which did a meta analysis of online and journal articles as well as interviewing top nutritionalists. It was published in the American Journal of Physiology and says there is no basis for this belief at all!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12376390

Kenya Trip

Hi all,

So the Kenya letter has gone out by parent mail. I am estimating the cost at 2000 pounds due to increased flights, game park fees and an extra night in Savage camp although I hope it will cost less than this.  The deadline is the 29th of June and after that I will take the 4 best debaters plus randomly select 11 psychology students. If you are interested please get me your replies plus a cheque for 100 pounds (which will not be cashed until after I have confirmed you are going).

Kenya Letter 1

P2

Hey all,

As you may know I'm not in school this coming week due to a family situation. However, I know Mrs P is more than happy to help so please contact her if you have any questions.

Good luck!

Ms Harford