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James Randi on Psychics

Written by Keiron Walsh

If you are studying Anomalistic Psychology, or even if you are not, you will probably be very interested in this TED talk by world famous skeptic, James Randi. Watch as he explains the tricks that "psychic mediums", or charlatans as he calls them, use to fool you into thinking they have supernatural powers.

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The Impossible to Fake Personality Test
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Imagine you are going to a job interview and as part of the assessment you have to fill in a personality test (psychologists sometimes call them personality inventories). You are asked all sorts of questions and…

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What Causes Deja Vu?
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Photo Credit All of us have experienced being in a new place and feeling certain that we have been there before. This mysterious feeling, commonly known as déjà vu, occurs when we feel that a new…

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I am trying to put together a list of songs that are related to different topics in psychology. E.g., Brain Damage by Pink Floyd relates well to Schizophrenia: Brain Damage (2003 Digital Remaster) Big Girl (you…

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How to Spot a Diving Footballer
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How can you tell if a footballer has been genuinely fouled or is taking a dive? Dr Paul Morris, a psychologist from the University of Portsmouth believes he has the answer after carrying out a series of…

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Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
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Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

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Piaget believed that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the intelligence of young children, compared with older children and adults. There is a quantitative difference because adults have more knowledge of…

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The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
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Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…

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AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
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In Unit 3 of the AQA-A Psychology Specification, candidates must develop knowledge, understanding and skills of analysis and evaluation in relation to three topics selected from the following:

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