Psychology Independent Study Guide During each topic you will be expected to complete some independent study that requires you to go above and beyond the content taught within the course. This development of your wider understanding is good practice for your life beyond 6th Form, whether at university or in the workplace. It will also develop your understanding of the course content by providing a clearer picture of the context in which the topics feature. This, in turn, puts you in a better position to perform well in exams.

General

Read Watch Listen Classic Case Studies in Psychology Child of Our Time - BBC The Psychology Podcast - Dr Geoff Rolls Documentary Opening Skinner’s Box - Lauren Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 year olds – All in the Mind Podcast - Slater Channel 4 Documentary https://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b006qxx9/episodes/guide Introducing Psychology – Nigel Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds PsychCrunch Podcast Benson – Channel 4 Documentary Adapt: Why success always starts Inception (movie) Mind Changers – Radio 4 with failure – Tim Harford Say It With Confidence – Sarah The Parkinson’s Drug Trial: A Sutton miracle cure? BBC Documentary 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: The Experimenter (movie) Psychology – Adrian Furnham

A Beginner’s Guide to Being Why do people join Cults? Janja Mental: An A-Z – Natasha Devon Lalich (TED Talk)

Born Liars – Ian Leslie Crash Course Psychology (Youtube)

Approaches

Read Watch Listen The Interpretation of Murder - Jed 3 ways to Make Better Decisions – The Psychology Podcast – Solving Rubenfeld by thinking like a computer – Tom the Mysteries of Consciousness, Griffiths (TED Talk) Free Will and God Introducing Freud – Richard The Sibling Bond – Jeffrey Kluger The Psychology Podcast - Appignanesi & Oscar Zarate (TED Talk) Humanism, Enlightenment and Progress Introducing Learning & Memory Supernanny – Channel 4 The Psych Files Podcast – Documentary Evolutionary Psychology Walden Two – B.F. Skinner A Dangerous Method (movie)

Biopsychology

Read Watch Listen The man who mistook his wife for a How your brain decides what is My Head – James Piercy (BBC Radio hat – Oliver Sacks beautiful – Anja Chatterjee (TED 4) Talk) Welcome to Your Brain - Sandra What we’re learning from 5000 The Psychology Podcast – How DNA Aamodt & Sam Wang brains – Read Montague (TED Talk) Makes Us Who We Are Born Liars – Ian Leslie Know thyself, with a brain scanner – Ariel Garten (TED Talk) The Brain: A Secret History – Michael Mosley (Documentary) Sleepwalkers – Secrets of the Night (Documentary) Why can’t we sleep – ITV Documentary

Memory

Read Watch Listen Still Alice – Lisa Genova How your ‘working memory’ makes All in the Mind Podcast – Memory sense of the world – Peter Doolittle and Identity (TED Talk) Patient HM: A Story of Memory, How reliable is your memory? All in the Mind Podcast – A Highly Madness and Family Secrets – Luke Elizabeth Loftus (TED Talk) Superior Memory Dittrich Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Why eyewitnesses get it wrong – Foer Scott Fraser (TED Talk) Introducing Learning & Memory Unlocking the secrets of our memory (Documentary) Aplysia Californica 50 First Dates (movie)

Attachment

Read Watch Listen King Solomon’s Ring – Konrad The tragedy of orphanages – The Psychology Podcast – The Latest Lorenz Georgette Mulheir (TED Talk) Science of Attachment Why Koko the Gorilla mattered – Child Full of Rage (Documentary) Douglas Main (National Geographic) A review of attachment theory in The Troubled Child (movie) the context of adolescent parenting - Flaherty & Sadler (2011)

Attachment in Common Sense and Babies (Netflix) Doodles – Miriam Silver The Perils of Attachment Parenting – Emma Jenner (The Atlantic)

Social Influence

Read Watch Listen The Lucifer Effect – Philip Zimbardo The Psychology of Evil – Philip The Dangerous History Podcast – Zimbardo (TED Talk) The Psychology of Power and Obedience 1984 – George Orwell 12 Angry Men (movie) BBC Prison Study (Documentary) The Stanford Prison Experiment (Movie)

Psychopathology

Read Watch Listen The boy who couldn’t stop washing - Depressed dogs and cats with OCD – All in the Mind Podcast – Preventing Judith Rapoport what animal madness means for us suicides humans – Laurel Braitman (TED Talk) One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Autism: what we know (and what Ken Kesey we don’t know yet) – Wendy Chung (TED Talk) Counselling for Toads – Robert de The man who loved the number 12 Board (documentary) Sybil – Flora Reita Schreiber Side Effects (movie) House Rules – Jodi Picoult Shutter Island (movie) The curious incident of the dog in Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a the night – Mark Haddon Manic depressive (documentary) Social Anxiety: Afraid of People (documentary)

Eating behaviour

Read Watch Listen The psychology of eating: from Louis Theroux – Talking to anorexia Radio 4 Women’s hour podcast – Healthy to Disordered behaviour – (Netflix) Eating disorders: patients, families Jane Ogden and doctors talk about the road to recovery. Anorexia: The Bare Bones: A first- BBC Horizon – Why are we getting Radio 4 podcasts – Childhood person account of Anorexia and so fat? (Netflix) obesity recovery for front-line professionals – Rose Waters

The Golden Cage – the Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa

Forensic Psychology

Read Watch Listen The Serial Killers: A Study in the The neuroscience of restorative Forensic Psychology Podcast – The Psychology of Violence – Colin justice – Daniel Reisel (TED Talk) Mind of a Serial Killer Wilson & Donald Seaman Criminal Shadows – David Canter Exploring the mind of a killer – Jim Fallon (TED Talk) The Jigsaw man – Paul Britton Rachel Nickell: The Untold Story (documentary) The Science of Evil – Simon Baron- We need to talk about Kevin (movie) Cohen The Psychopath Whisperer – Kent The Shawshank Redemption (movie) Kiehl The Imitation Game (movie) Forensics: The Real CSI (BBC iPlayer)

Issues & Debates

Read Watch Listen Project Nim (movie) The Adjustment Bureau (movie) 3 Identical Strangers – Channel 4 (documentary)

Independent Study Record

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