Mental Health Mates: Walking Your Way to Sanity
The Telegraph shares the story of Bryony Gordon, who through extensively writing about mental health has discovered that it is completely normal to feel ‘weird’. She even describes herself as ‘mad’...
Using Play-Doh In Biopsychology Lessons
There are very few teaching strategies that I haven’t tried. However, I must confess that I have never used Play-Doh in the classroom.
Q&A from AQA: Evaluation in Biopsychology
Below you will find a question and response from AQA in relation to: Evaluation in Biopsychology
Q&A from AQA: 12 Mark Essays in Year 2
Below you will find a question and response from AQA in relation to: 12 Mark Essays in Year 2.
Q&A from AQA: Biopsychology - Shift Work & Jet Lag
Below you will find a question and response from AQA in relation to: Biopsychology - Shift Work & Jet Lag
Q&A from AQA: Incorrect Information in Endorsed Textbooks
Below you will find a question and response from AQA in relation to: Incorrect Information in Endorsed AQA Textbooks.
tutor2u Psychology Network Meetings
The tutor2u Psychology Team is now supporting Psychology Network Meetings taking place at schools across the country. The Psychology Team are committed to providing advice, guidance and support,...
Announcing the A-Level Psychology Teacher Café
The tutor2u Psychology Team are pleased to announce the ‘Psychology Teacher Café’, a new series of informal online meetings that provide you with an opportunity to discuss those everyday burning...
STEM Starter: Relationship Breakdown
This week's STEM Starter describes a painful divorce between Brad and Angelina and the helpful advice of Clooney.
STEM Starter: Explanations of Attachment
This week's STEM Starter describes the relationship baby George has with his mother Kate and father William.
Free Resource: Creating Evaluation Burgers in The Classroom
Teaching evaluation is important. However, coming up with a range of different strategies to teach students how to evaluate can be difficult.
Who Looks After the President’s Mental Health?
Who looks after the President’s mental health? That’s the question posed by Dr John Grohol in an entry on PsychCentral.
Exercise: Love It Or Hate It?
Do you truly enjoy exercise? If you were given a choice between an hour in the gym or a meal with a friend, which would you choose?
Number Of Teachers Signed Off With Stress Hits All-Time High
An article in the Sunday Post revealed that more than 60,000 days were lost in 2015-2016, as nearly 2,00 teachers were signed off work because of stress, anxiety of depression.
Ex-World Champion Boxer Ricky Hatton, who won the world light-weight and welterweight titles, describes his battle with depression and his attempted suicide, in a new video on the BBC.
Why Children Need Their Mothers
Marriage and Family Expert, Amos Alumanda, highlights the importance of attachment in an article reported in StandardDigtial.
According to Alumanda: “Being a parent, be definition, is...
An Interactive Atlas of The Brain
The Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation (FINR) is a brain injury rehabilitation centre for children and adults. The FINR website contains a wealth of interesting information...
Psychology Weekly Update
The first week of 2017 was a busy week for the tutor2u Psychology Team. Just in case you missed anything, here is a quick overview of the highlights.
The Undoing Project
I've just finished reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. It is the story of the collaboration between Avos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman which ultimately lead to the emergence of prospect...
New Findings Show Dopamine’s Complex Role in Schizophrenia
If you’re studying the Year 2 Topic Schizophrenia, you will have encountered the Dopamine Hypothesis. A recent article in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry reviews seven articles examining...