Education and technology
Psychology, Blog | August 8, 2015
As online Psychology students, you will continuously be engaging with technology to support your learning in this course. Doubtless, you are aware of some of the debates regarding technology and education: Are the internet and video games a distraction from learning?... Suitable Studies to Investigate Psychological Theories and Models
Psychology, Blog | June 16, 2015
The IA in IB Psychology provides you with the opportunity to investigate a psychology theory or model of human behaviour. As well as researching and writing about a particular theory or model, you are required to undertake an exploration of this theory or model by... 
Reciprocal Altruism
Psychology, Blog | January 9, 2015
Prosocial behaviour is behaviour that is of benefit to another person (or persons). Wispe (1972) defined prosocial behaviour as a behaviour that has positive social consequences and contributes to the well-being of another person. It includes helping behaviours (i.e.,... 
Why we love
Psychology, Blog | December 22, 2014
The study of human relationships has an incredibly long history and prior to the birth of modern psychology as we know it today, many attempts have been made to analyse intellectually the factors that characterise our relationships. Philosophers in classical Greece... 
The Memory Wars Revisited
Psychology, Blog | December 20, 2014
As many of you now know, Elizabeth Loftus is one of the most famous psychologists in the world. If you remember her work on eyewitness memory (Loftus and Palmer, 1974), you might find this recent discussion of her still-controversial findings interesting. Pay close...