Blog and updates
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14 Aug 2016
Could you kill for your food?
The BBC has released a series of podcasts which are packed with interesting Psychology. Whether you're studying Eating Behaviour, Aggression or BioPsychology, these podcasts have something for...
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12 Aug 2016
7 Ways to Get Rid of Your Smartphone Addiction
If you’re anything like me, you probably use your smartphone too much! I often use the excuse that I have to use my phone for work, or that without Google Maps I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere,...
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11 Aug 2016
Is Spotify Successful Because of Behavioural Psychology?
Spotify is a music streaming app with over 37 million global subscribers, but is the key to Spotify’s success based on simple behavioural psychology.
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10 Aug 2016
A Classic Memory Experiment for the Classroom
A recent Guardian article questions the accuracy memory and provides a useful classroom strategy for testing memory.
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9 Aug 2016
NEW – FREE Online CPD for IB Psychology Teachers!
Are you teaching IB Psychology and don’t know who to turn to for guidance, support and advice? This week tutor2u has extended its series of FREE webinars to include 5 new IB specific sessions. From...
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8 Aug 2016
Free CPD for OCR A-Level Psychology Teachers!
Are you teaching OCR A-Level Psychology and don’t know who to turn to for guidance, support and advice? This week tutor2u has extended its series of free webinars to include 5 new OCR specific...
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8 Aug 2016
What is reflection?
The word “reflect” is used more often now than it has ever been used before. Not only is it used in the teaching profession, where we are constantly advised to evaluate what we do in the classroom,...
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8 Aug 2016
tutor2 Psychology – Weekly Update
It’s been another busy week at tutor2u and this week we have extended our support and continued developing first class resources to get you ready for September.
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7 Aug 2016
Dads are to blame for over-cautious daughters
Researchers Lisa Hagan and Janet Kuebli recently researched the role of parental socialisation on their pre-school children’s behaviour, and found that it was fathers rather than mothers who...
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5 Aug 2016
Students as Co-planners and Teachers - Free Resource Download
This is not a new idea…but one I have thoroughly enjoyed. Have you ever asked a student to co-plan and deliver a lesson? And I'm not just talking about group work where students make a presentation...
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4 Aug 2016
Exploring the benefits of expressive writing
I started to explore the benefits of expressive writing in 2013, when I did my master’s at the University of Hertfordshire. But long before that, I had already been an "expressive writer". I truly...
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3 Aug 2016
Engaging reluctant writers - FREE resource inside
I love teaching psychology and have done so for a long time. It still saddens me that many of our students are choosing to study this subject under the misconception of it being a 'soft subject’....
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2 Aug 2016
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person?
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person? Sometimes it can be really difficult to maintain a positive attitude in life, as you face tricky situations at work or in your...
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1 Aug 2016
Reflecting on… mirror neurons
Mirror neurons were discovered in monkeys in the 1990s. They were activated in the pre-motor cortex when the monkeys performed a given action and when they saw another monkey, or a researcher,...
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1 Aug 2016
tutor2 Psychology – Weekly Update
Just because the summer holiday has arrived, it doesn’t mean that the tutor2u psychology team have stopped preparing for next term. Here’s an update on what happened last week:
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29 Jul 2016
Join the tutor2u Psychology team – 3 new positions advertised
Would you like to share your passion for teaching Psychology with the wider-world? Then why not apply for one of these three new positions at tutor2u.
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28 Jul 2016
Do you want to master teaching research methods? Then join our FREE teacher CPD webinars
Last week we introduced our comprehensive range of FREE Teacher CPD webinars and now that list has just got bigger. We are delighted to introduce our new series of CPD Webinars titled: Mastering...
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27 Jul 2016
The Stroop test
If you are a Psychology teacher or student, some of you may have heard of this already. The Guardian newspaper science section recently ran an article on how to conduct the Stroop test, which might...
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27 Jul 2016
Pokémon: “gotta catch them all” & the craze behind it all
It wasn’t long ago that I wrote about smartphones and their use in the classroom, but now we have a new craze. It can be seen on the streets, in parks and even in the workplace! Looking around,...
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25 Jul 2016
Updated map of the human brain hailed as a scientific tour de force
Researchers have revealed that human brain has at least 180 different regions, which has not only confirmed the existence of 83 known regions, but also highlighted the addition of 97 new ones, but...
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