Ashlawn Psychology Department Blog

November 27, 2007

Investigating Prosocial Behaviour in other cultures

Filed under: Aggression — sianduffin @ 10:25 am

Find an example of prosocial behaviour in another culture.  Post a comment here giving the outline of the story, why it is prosocial and then use the standard criticisms to evaluate your arguement.

See me if you have a problem,

Miss Duffin  

November 22, 2007

Year 12 Abnormality Cover Work

Filed under: Abnormality, Year 12 Homework — aprilgold @ 11:31 am

Follow the link to “Measuring the Unmeasureable” Work through sections 1 to 4. Post a comment below sharing one interesting fact. This should not be the same as another post and should not be just cut and pasted! Feel free to comment on what someone else has added if you want to talk about the same thing. Let’s get some discussion going!

November 13, 2007

Work for 14th November Mrs Gold’s Year 13 groups

Filed under: Year 13 Homework — aprilgold @ 4:00 pm

Sorry I am not in folks. 

In the new unit we are looking at aggression and in particular how the media can influence aggression. When we do this in class it will be focussed around TV, however there is a lot of new research around the effect of video games on aggression. Using the links below relating to video games and aggression and this meta-analysis  

Meta Analysis of Research into Video Games and Aggression

Produce a 1 page summary of the arguments for and against video games and any empirical evidence supporting either side. Bring your summary to our next lesson.  

See you next lesson!

November 9, 2007

Social Influence sample essays

Filed under: Uncategorized — sianduffin @ 12:03 pm

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