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Psych Out!
by Bert Kasselman
This podcast explores Psychology as it impacts our behaviour and perceptions of the world...
Episodes
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Episode 8: Why do some people just want to watch the world burn? Are you prosocial or antisocial in your behaviour?
In this podcast we will: analyse Bibb Darley and John Latane’s (1968) model of bystander intervention describe social factors that influence prosocial behaviour, with reference to the reciprocity principle and social responsibility describe personal characteristics that influence prosocial...
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Episode 7: "All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players" - Shakespeare
In this episode we will: explain the difference between primary (family) and secondary (media, schooling) socialisation describe gender and compare social learning, cognitive developmental and biology-based theories of gender role formation describe group social influence, with reference to...
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Episode 6: Social control... Have you been programmed?
In this podcast we will: compare classical conditioning (Ivan Pavlov 1897/1902), operant conditioning (BF Skinner 1948) and social learning theory (Albert Bandura 1977) for classical conditioning a. recall the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response (UCR), neutral stimulus (NS),...
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Episode 5: Struggling to study? How encoding and recalling information in the brain can help you.
In this episode we will: describe the role of the hippocampus in memory formation and storage consider the role of the cerebellum in forming and storing implicit (procedural) memories distinguish between recall, recognition and relearning describe how information is lost from memory through...
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Episode 4: Memories: How we create store and recall information and why our memories sometimes fail us.
In today's episode we will: recognise the duration and capacity of sensory memory (including iconic and echoic), and short-term and long-term memory evaluate two models of memory, including the working model of memory (Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch 1974), including the central executive,...
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Episode 3: Seeing may not be believing. Your brain may be playing some tricks on you.
In this episode we will be exploring: the process of visual perception, with reference to reception (visible light spectrum); transduction (photoreceptors, receptive fields); transmission (visual cortex); selection (feature detectors); and organisation and interpretation (visual perception...
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Episode 2: Freaking out? Maybe your neurotransmission could be the key.
In today's episode we will: recognise that emotion occurs within the limbic system, amygdala and prefrontal cortex explore neurotransmission distinguish between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters, with reference to glutamate (Glu) and gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) compare the physical...
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This podcast explores Psychology as it impacts our behaviour and perceptions of the world...
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Bert Kasselman
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