As online Psychology students, you will continuously be engaging with technology to support your learning in this course. Doubtless, you are aware of some of the debates regarding technology and education: Are the internet and video games a distraction from learning?...
The IA in IB Psychology provides you with the opportunity to investigate a psychology theory or model of human behaviour. As well as researching and writing about a particular theory or model, you are required to undertake an exploration of this theory or model by...
Prosocial behaviour is behaviour that is of benefit to another person (or persons). Wispe (1972) defined prosocial behaviour as a behaviour that has positive social consequences and contributes to the well-being of another person. It includes helping behaviours (i.e.,...
The study of human relationships has an incredibly long history and prior to the birth of modern psychology as we know it today, many attempts have been made to analyse intellectually the factors that characterise our relationships. Philosophers in classical Greece...
As many of you now know, Elizabeth Loftus is one of the most famous psychologists in the world. If you remember her work on eyewitness memory (Loftus and Palmer, 1974), you might find this recent discussion of her still-controversial findings interesting. Pay close...
Cognitive-behavioural therapy is the most common psychological treatment for MDD. It emerged from Beck’s theory as to the causes of depression. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a term that encompasses numerous specific treatment approaches. As the name suggests,...
