Group 3 - Psychology 

Group 3 - Psychology

Accessing these resources will promote interest in psychology and give you some insight into the subject.

Podcasts

There are a number of great psychology podcasts available:

Mind Changers has a number of episodes, each about an important discovery in Psychology.

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008cy1j/episodes/guide?page=1

I would recommend listening to:

• BF Skinner and superstition in the pigeon
• Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony
• Henri Tajfel's minimal groups
• Case study: John/Joan-The boy who was raised as a girl
• Case study: HM-The man who couldn't remember
• Harlow's monkeys
• Case study: Kitty Genovese
• The bobo doll
• Solomon Asch -conformity

PsychCrunch is from the British Psychological Society. It looks at whether findings from psychological science can make a difference in real life.

• www.bps.org.uk/collections/psychcrunch
  

Articles

The following website has summarised versions of recently published articles and is regularly updated. You can also search topics of interest.

• www.bps.org.uk/collections/research-digest

Books

Online extracts and videos of the authors speaking about these books are available.

• The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks. This is available online for free as a PDF. A neurologist describes case histories of some of his patients.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman. This looks at decision making and the biases that result from cognitive processing.
• Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - Robert Sapolsky. This looks at the extent to which our biology controls our behaviour.

Lectures

Royal Institution Lectures. I have listed some examples but there are many more on YouTube. Search “Royal institution psychology”.

• The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRel1JKOEbI
• The Science of the Voices in your Head – with Charles Fernyhough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95otBlepVHc
• An Introduction to Paranormal Psychology - with Chris French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jve3p0ws-nI

Films and Television

The following films are about famous psychological experiments which are good to have an understanding of : -

• The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
• Experimenter (2015)

The following films raise issues that link to the study of psychology : -

• Awakenings (1990)
• A beautiful mind (2001)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• The Mind Explained: on Netflix. Some short episodes on specific issues (the memory one is good).