Abertay Psychology Society
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- Me, Myself, and I
- Well hello! And it's all go again for semester 2
It's that time of year again when our 4th years are desperately seeking participants for their final year projects (something most of you will have to do at some point down the line!) so please please please keep an eye out for everyone's posters around the University and sign up for whatever you can do...
Please do bear in mind that this is a very stressful time for 4th years and if you sign up, turn up! No-show's simply add to the stress!!! They rely heavily on you to get their projects done, so please don't let them down...
Anyway, lecture over! We hope everyone had a good break and is enjoying their second term...
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Learning to distinguish between other-race faces could help beat racism
Most of us find that people from other races look more similar to each other than people from our own race - a phenomenon dubbed the 'other race effect'. Sophie Lebrecht and colleagues reasoned that this perceptual bias could feed into people's implicit, non-conscious racial stereotypes. Now in an exciting new study they've shown that training people to distinguish among other-race faces can help reduce implicit racism.
Twenty White participants completed a test of their implicit racism towards African American people. As expected, the participants were quicker at identifying a negative word after presentation of an African American face than they were at identifying a positive word.
Half the students then received training in discriminating among African American faces, after which they re-took the implicit racism test and showed significantly reduced evidence of implicit racism. The other students, who acted as control group, were exposed to as many African American faces in the training period, but received no practice at discriminating among them. On re-tetesting, their implicit racism was unchanged.
The finding suggests that by improving people's ability to discriminate among other-race faces, their implicit racial biases can be reduced. This makes intuitive sense. After all, if people from a given race all seem to look alike, then it's not so hard to believe that they are similar in other ways too. In contrast, learning to see the visible differences between people of another race, makes it harder to lump them altogether in social and cultural ways.
"Our findings have great potential for how we understand and address the real-world consequences of racial stereotyping," the researchers said.0 Comments 298 days
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Students: it's time to ditch the pre-exam all-nighter
Lack of sleep impairs the human brain's ability to store new information in memory, researchers have found. Past research has already shown that sleep is vital for consolidating recently-learned material but now Matthew Walker and colleagues have shown that sleep prior to learning is just as important.
“The implications of our findings have never been more relevant than in the present day, when sleep hygiene and total sleep time are declining across all age ranges”, the researchers said, pointing to the “all-nighter” before exams as the “quintessential example” of how we deliberately deprive ourselves of sleep.
The researchers scanned the brains of 28 participants who attempted to remember a series of pictures of people, landscapes, scenes and objects. Half the participants had slept the previous night as usual and acted as controls; the other participants had been kept awake, meaning they'd gone about 36 hours without sleep (the learning task was in the evening). Two days later, after everyone had two nights of normal sleep, the participants were shown more pictures and asked to identify those they'd been shown earlier in the week. Compared with the controls, the previously sleep deprived participants recognised 19 per cent fewer pictures.
Brain scans taken at the time the participants learned the pictures provided some clues as to how sleep deprivation had affected learning-related activity in the brain. Compared with the controls, the sleep deprived participants showed less activity in the hippocampus, the brain area associated with the laying down of episodic memories. Moreover, whereas the hippocampi of the controls was functionally connected with the frontal and parietal lobes, in the sleep deprived participants it was connected with basic alertness networks in the brain-stem - what the researchers said was “potentially a cooperative mechanism attempting to elevate levels of alertness during memory encoding”.
Why does lack of sleep have this effect on memory? The researchers aren't sure, but it's possible that lack of sleep denies the brain the opportunity to transfer episodic memories in the hippocampus into long term storage, so that the capacity of the hippocampus effectively becomes filled the longer we're awake.
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Jyoo, S-S., Hu, P.T., Gujar, N., Jolesz, F.A. & Walker, M.P. (2007). A deficit in the ability to form new human memories without sleep. Nature Neuroscience, Advance Online Publication.0 Comments 303 days
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Graduation
Well that's the 4th years finally leaving us... give them all a big cheer for their successes!!!!
Congratulations everyone!0 Comments 510 days
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Zandra Hunter84 weeks agoHey, last year's vice president here. Hope everyone is having a great time, adjusting to real life is a peculiarity!! Hope dissertations, exams, etc are going great guns. I Heart you, Psychology Society!!
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Laura Gallagher94 weeks agonah nothing is ever easy! hehe. yeh im a member of the society just joined at the start of second year was at the meeting in white space ages ago, i recieve emails from you guys on my uni email account =)
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Laura Gallagher94 weeks ago
hi im excited about the hoodies! any news on when they're gona be available? i think navy blue would be a good colour, a bit boring but not too bright so at least people would wear them =)
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95 weeks ago
Beth Morrison
Well, since you ask. I think it should be red.
Red is for energy. It's also associated with strength and determination. Its an emotionally intense colour, it conjures up a whole lot of conflicting emotions such as passion and love to warfare and violence!
Perfect for psychologists don't you think?
On the other hand... Maybe we play safe with Black? Don't get me started on the significance of colour though I'll be here all night
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Beth Morrison95 weeks ago
Hiya. When are the meetings these days Lisa?
I've been a bit busy of late but might pop in next week sometime if I can
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Laura98 weeks agohey,
can you confirm when the mettings for the psych society are?
thanks
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106 weeks ago
Lisa Mayberry
I want an end of term drinking session!!! Too much stress/study - not enough drunken silliness...
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Ross Millar107 weeks agoHey at the discussion group on Friday there was some intrest in the use of the EndNote programme for refrencing.
what to do is to log on to the portal go to Virtual Library ----> referance management
----> Endnote ----> Online tutoral ----> log on to WebCT and choose the EndNote option.
Any problems then go and harass the libaray staff - they might enjoy the human contact! hehe
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Laura108 weeks ago
Hi,
Has the vote for 1st year rep been decided??
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Beth Morrison109 weeks ago
Hiya sorry wasnt at todays meeting, had to pick up Calum from school as hubby had a class-see you next week
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Ross Millar110 weeks ago
I would be happy to take it up provisionally!
If someone other wishes to do it then I will take part in a contest!
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111 weeks ago
Laura
Hi Im laura im in first year & want to be the 1st year rep!! Im friendly & outgoing and you should vote for me cos im the perfect candidate to represent the 1st years.
A friend who shall remain nameless thinks bribery is the way to get ur votes but i cant afford to bride you so you'll have to trust my judgement on this one!! -
DW Mckenzie111 weeks agoHiya, What time would it finish at. I've got a lecture 12-2 and then 4-5.
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Alan Hunter114 weeks agoLet's get some comments in there!
No this comment has no other purpose, what did you expect from me? The meaning of life?!
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You may have recieved an email about my experiment but I need lots of participants so here I go again.
Abertay Psychology Society 0 ReplysI am a 4th year Psychology student and I am doing an experiment on reaction time of naming an object. The only condition is that participants cannot be colour blind, if you don't know if you...