Evolutionary theory of sleep

This podcast cover the 4 Psychological risk factor that contribute to the development and progression of the a mental condition listed in the VCE study design: rumination, stress, impaired reasoning and memory & poor self efficacy.

This is the second podcast of a two-part series on the Stanford Prison Experiment: This podcasts covers the key results & findings along with a discussion of the ethical implications of the experiment.

This podcast covers the background to the experiment, the aim, IV/DV, details of the sample of participants along with a detailed procedure. The results findings will be covered in a future podcast.

This podcasts compares the effects of a legal blood alcohol content of 0.05 (in Australia) vs. one night of full sleep deprivation on: cognition, concentration & mood.

Reliability (both internal and external) and Validity (internal & external) are covered in this podcasts that relates to a key skill that all VCE Psychology students need to be familiar with.

Perceptual set and a variety of factors that influence our predisposition to perceive stimuli in a certain way are covered in this podcast.

The use of BLT in treating circadian phase disorders such as delayed sleep phase onset is covered in this podcast.

Reception, transduction, transmission and interpretation are all explained in this brief podcasts of the 4 stages of sensory processing which features in the U2 VCE Psychology course.

The role of LTP in the development is covered in this brief podcast.