Fewer children in the United States are getting vaccinated. That’s bad news for those kids, and also for public health in general. Often, the response is to argue and debate and get angry at people who are we see as making terrible,...

Author, philosopher, prankster and journalist AJ Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.

Daniel Willingham earned his B.A. from Duke University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University in 1990. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since...

This video is packed with tips for how to write a successful personal statement to study Psychology at University. I share what I included in my personal statement as well as the books I referenced in the statement.

This is an animated diagram of the multi store model of memory, presented by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968.

Before we dive into all the particulars of modern psychology and its research methods, we need to get a little context. When was psychology first developed, and by whom? Was it scientific at that time, or more philosophical? Who was the...

Memory is a fickle friend and so much of what we think we remember actually never happened. This video introduces a series of fascinating psychology studies into false recall - use these studies to enhance your essays on the reliability...

This video outlines Atkinson and Shiffrin's key cognitive model of memory - the multi store multi of memory. This is a landmark theory in the development of the study of memory.

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development is a benchmark in understanding child psychology and was used to develop curriculum for a number of years. This video covers the important aspects of Piaget's Theory with relevant examples and...

How 'free' are you? Professor Patrick Haggard explains the differences between determinism and free will and we look at behavioural, psychic and neurological determinism. We then reconstruct Libet's seminal experiment showing that brain...

In the middle of the 20th Century, Psychology transformed thanks to the Cognitive Revolution. So what is Cognitive Psychology, and what is its story from the 1960s to today?

Baddeley and Hitch's (1974) contribution to memory theory is one of the most significant models in the subject. This video outlines the model and its constituent parts: The Central Executive, Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad, Phonological Loop...

This video introduces you to a development of the basic Long Term Memory concept. Tulving (1972) distinguishes elements of Long Term Memory from each other using experimental evidence.