8 episodes
Psyackology Bruce McDowell
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A podcast series for students of AQA Psychology. Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Psyackology-2417114685177357/
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Episode 7: The Milgram Variations
Milgram's study has become a standard explanation of the behaviour of the perpetrators of the Holocaust. How much do his experiments reflect what took place in Germany during WWII?
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Episode 6: The Banality of Evil
Eichmann, Arendt and Milgram. three players and one explanation of how ordinary people commit horrible acts.
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Episode 5: Psychology and Empiricism
Wilhelm Wundt started the empirical approach in psychology almost 150 years ago. Our need to ensure reliability and validity of our investigations remains important to this day.
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Episode 4: The pituitary gland and oxytocin
The unique pituitary gland and the hormone that binds and divides the sexes.
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Episode 3: Adrenaline and Cortisol: scream if you want to go faster
Hormones really do affect our behaviour.