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Understand your mind with the science of psychology.

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Sports Psychology What's happening inside the minds of Premier League footballers? And can their mental skills help the rest of us? Mark Bailey investigates the psychology of football performance.

IAT - Implicit Association Test It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short. In addition, this site contains various related information. The value of this information may be greatest if you try at least one test first...

In the first in Mind Games, our new series on classic psychology experiments, we show you how to conduct the Stroop test, which looks at how language is processed. Mind Games looks promising, but I worry that it will make it harder for students to do their IA experiments.

Lots of interactive resources and studies students can take part in - makes the DP course more 'true to life', especially in the 1st year

Martin Hagger is Professor of Psychology at Curtin University. His areas of expertise are social, health, sport and exercise psychology. He is involved in numerous research projects nationally and internationally with a focus on motivation and behaviour change. He is currently leading projects in drugs in sport, promoting physical activity and healthy diet, understanding the mechanisms of willpower and self-control, and reducing binge drinking and the prevalence of smoking. At the highest level, athletes are well-matched in terms of their physical abilities, conditioning, and skill level. But often that is not enough to win and perform on the biggest of stages like the Olympic games. Developing strategies and techniques to get athletes minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance is increasingly important for sports teams and coaches. Martin will provide an overview of the kinds of techniques that elite athletes use to prepare psychologically for their sport, give details of the scientific research into these techniques and how they work, and how the techniques might be used by competitive athetes and coaches to maximise performance.

BBC center where you can find resources, surveys, interesting activities related to Psychology

Great article on behavioral psychology

the article is really great but the question is not answered yet when the unconscious drives would be conscious ones in order to deal with them before they become irresistable

Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment workings of our brain with a view to understanding ourselves a little better and learning a little more, in a very real sense, about what makes us tick. A web site with wide variety of articles to support your classes.

Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Has great discussions of various psych topics.

Martin Hagger is Professor of Psychology at Curtin University. His areas of expertise are social, health, sport and exercise psychology. He is involved in numerous research projects nationally and internationally with a focus on motivation and behaviour change. He is currently leading projects in drugs in sport, promoting physical activity and healthy diet, understanding the mechanisms of willpower and self-control, and reducing binge drinking and the prevalence of smoking. At the highest level, athletes are well-matched in terms of their physical abilities, conditioning, and skill level. But often that is not enough to win and perform on the biggest of stages like the Olympic games. Developing strategies and techniques to get athletes minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance is increasingly important for sports teams and coaches. Martin will provide an overview of the kinds of techniques that elite athletes use to prepare psychologically for their sport, give details of the scientific research into these techniques and how they work, and how the techniques might be used by competitive athetes and coaches to maximise performance.

Again, not sure why this didn't work the first time! This website is a BBC Radio 4 programme called "Mind Changers", hosted by Claudia Hammond, delves into the development of psychology during the 20th century. Each episode is about a half hour of listening, and example titles are "Harlow's Monkeys" and "Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs". I think this would be an interesting resource to expose students to historically significant studies in a whole-class or independent research format.

Interesting article I found in searching Community library

Some of these little quizzes are awesome from the BBC. They used to have an awesome facial recognition one but I believe most of the links are broken now.

Mindful meditation helps treat depression Clinical psychologists have developed an impressive array of empirically supported treatments over the past several decades. While these new treatments have brought relief to many people, a stubborn scientific problem persists. I refer to the fact that psychologists don't understand, and therefore can't explain, how or why any of these treatments work.

Spot The Fake Smile Survey online test in which students can determine whether a smile is fake or real

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Lost Souls of Pennhurst In 1908 Pennhurst Asylum in eastern Pennsylvania was built to house and care for epileptic, disabled and "feeble-minded" patients, but after a few years Pennhurst became dangerously overcrowded,The result was rampant abuse, neglect and horrific conditions. The spirits of the patients and abusive employees still roam the halls of the asylum today.

Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum I refer students to this series "Discovering Psychology". Although it is quite old, it can provide students with content-specific educational viewing...most students tell me they don't mind that its dated, they appreciate Zimbardo

One more article about 10 "classic psychology experiments" and what we can learn from them . Many of these have been discussed in previous threads with regards to ethics. This is not a very "academic" article but some of the short discussions can serve as great introductions to further class talks.