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Research reports are a common item in psychology studies and when you are out in the world practicing. It is important to provide as much information as possible about the particiapants in your study, to enable the reader to determine if sampling bias has occurred, as well as to replicate your study if they want [...]

As a psychology undergraduate and casual lecturer and TA at my local uni, it was disappointing to see the Fox Effect being consciously applied. Some lecturers felt they were the guardians of knowledge and that some learners had more rights than others to gain access to it. This is why it is critical to learn [...]

Image: Dr Dirt Many of you are writing a research report this semester in your psychology studies. Here is a link to a download of an outline as to how to write a psychology research report. Hope you find it of help. How to Write a Psychology Resarch Report Remember to feedback to me how [...]

Guide on the Side is the psychology education role I have been trained to provide to you. Psychology (PSI) Tutor:Mentor dips into the Flipped Classroom Model (infographic below), with a twist. In general, the students I study-buddy with attend physical universities or colleges and then hook up with me to take part in active application [...]

Check it out, Psychology Tutor:Mentor (PSI) now has a Daily Gazette~ How excitement! More psychology focused articles and news and, more psychology student resources, like help with reflective journaling. This was my first try at collating material and I will be tweaking material till I find what we all agree is ‘good stuff’. Let me [...]

Statistics is a learning hurdle for many of us. I failed the first two years of studying the topic; felt way out of my depth and unable to relate to the concepts. Lately, browsing my Twitter stream, it appears that many other psychology students have similar experiences. So, I have put together my fav Top [...]

Cairns Regional Councils’ Public Art Plan (2012-2017) draft is on the web for my local community to puruse and comment upon. I signed up to the Your Say: Help shape the future of our region to do exactly that, contribute to our communiy’s growth and development. You can review the Plan’s Evaluation Strategy here. Following, [...]

Psychology Tutor:Mentor (PSI) adopted a badges for learning program late last year. I installed BigDoor.com at the footer of my blog (see below~ log in with Facebook!) and am learning how to use it to encourage interaction with the site. Throughout the year I will be indroducing other learning badges, to complement student studies and [...]

Lucky me has been invited to trail SnapIt 3.7 Screen Capture Software. Yes, I do receive something for the review~ a free copy of the software. My review is an honest reflection of my use of SnapIt. SnapIt Screen Capture I highly recommend the SnapIT tool for psychology students (any higher ed student actually). It [...]

  Today’s topics of interest is in the realm of Cognitive psychology and provides examples for a journal critique using the paper, Detecting Concealed Information about Person Recognition (Leal et al., 2011 [Abstract]). Example of a Journal Critique in Cognitive Psychology Literature Review The reader is not given a critical analysis of current literature in this [...]

Part of my role as a private psychology Tutor:Mentor is providing students with PASW (previously SPSS) resources to enable self-learning. The key to understanding statistics,  is to put it into practice in your daily life. Keep a learning journal, a ‘learning shoebox’ of accumulated notes or simply jot messages onto your mobile phone~ as long [...]

As I pride myself on being a dedicated Psychology Tutor:Mentor I am always looking for ways to provide You, the student, with more of what you want to enable your learning in the discipline. So this morning I decided to use the keyword searches in psychology (and sometimes not related to psych at all ~:-) [...]