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Archive for August, 2010

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This is a guest article by Kamila Wita, who is soon to become an MSc student in Developmental Psychopathology at Durham University.  This is a very comprehensive, well-written and up to date account of the cognitive influence of alcohol and MDMA.  Note the critical comments throughout; it’s a great example of how to be critical in  [ Read More ]

Categories: Psychology

Whether you write your notes in full paragraphs, i.e., blocks of writing, on each page, or you’re a bit more sophisticated and use bullet points, there’s probably something you can do to save time and prevent yourself from simply ‘scribing’ what the lecturer is saying (generally a bad idea). Here are a few quick …

Categories: Study Skills

That’s a question every psychology student has asked at one time or another! Well, I’ll tell you. In order to understand Bonferroni, there is some prerequisite knowledge you need to possess. You need to understand what null hypothesis significance testing is, p values, and Type I/Type II errors. If you understand these …

Categories: Data, Psychology

How many English words do you know now compared to, say, 15 years ago? A fair few more I’ll bet. Some of these have the same meaning as other words you already know, some of them mean new things. But you’ve managed to learn, retain, and use them. In different situations you observe different sets  [ Read More ]

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