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 &amp; poor self efficacy.

Psychological risk factors

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

Stanford Prison Experiment: findings & ethics

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.

Stanford Prison experiment - Introduction and Method

Evolutionary theory of sleep

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 &amp; mood.

The effects of a legal BAC vs. one night of full slee deprivation.

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

Reliability vs. Validity - Units 1-4 Psychology

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

Perceptual set - U2 VCE Psychology

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

Bright Light Therapy - U4 VCE Psych

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.

4 stages of sensory processing - U2 Psych

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

LTP and phobia development

These podcasts are aimed at Unit 3/4 VCE Psychology Students, they can be also be found in the itunes store. See my website for access along with other eresources for Psychology students: www.ePsychVCE.com

This podcast firstly covers the formation of a secure attachment and then covers the cause and effect of a disorganised attachment.

Disorganised attachment

This podcasts provides an overview of the Transtheoretical model of behavioural model of change along with strengths and weaknesses of the model.

Transtheoretical model - an overview

This podcasts covers the 6 stages. An outline of the model + strengths and weaknesses will be covered by an alternative podcast.

The 6 stages of the the transtheoretical model of behavioural change

Self efficacy

Genetics, poor sleep, poor response to medication and substance abuse are all briefly covered in terms of the their potential influence in the development of a mental condition.

Biological risk factors

This podcast covers: predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors that contribute to the development and progression of a mental condition.

4PF model

IncludingHigh level of functioningSocial and emotional wellbeingResilience

Including<br>High level of functioning<br>Social and emotional wellbeing<br>Resilience

The characteristics of a mentally healthy person

Mental Health Contiunuum 

This podcast covers the influence of the SCN and melatonin on the sleep-wake cycle.

Circadian rhythm - sleep-wake cycle

This podcasts describes both LTP (long-term potentiation) and LTD (long-term depression).

LTP vs LTD

These podcasts are aimed at Unit 3/4 VCE Psychology Students, they can be also be found in the itunes store. See my website for access along with other eresources for Psychology students: <a href="http://www.ePsychVCE.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ePsychVCE.com</a>

ePsychVCE.com

Central nervous system

REM sleep is described as paradoxical sleep, findout why in this podcast

REM sleep

The psychological and physiological effects of sleep deprivation are covered in this podcast. see epsychvce.com facebook page for additional feeds for VCE Psychology podcasts and YouTube clips.

The psychological and physiological effects of sleep deprivation are covered in this podcast. see <a href="http://epsychvce.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">epsychvce.com</a> facebook page for additional feeds for VCE Psychology podcasts and YouTube clips.

Sleep deprivation

This podcast focuses on the functionality of the prefrontal cortex

Frontal lobe

Acronyms, acrostics &amp; narrative chaining is covered in this podcast along with an overview of how mnemonics enhance memory.

Mnemonics

This podcast provides an overview of the structure and 3 functional areas of the cerebral cortex

Cerebral cortex

Somatic and autonomic nervous systems

This podcast provides an explanation of the symptoms, neural causes, brain areas affected and type of memories affected by the most common form of Dementia - Alzheimer's Disease.

Alzheimer's Disease

Delayed sleep phase onset

peripheral nervous system

sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

This clip covers the main functions of the visual cortex and the associations areas of the occipital lobe

Occipital lobe

Context-dependent cues relate to the external environment in which matererial has been encoded. Recall is higher when the retrieval context matches the encoding context as illustrated by Godden &amp; Baddeley's experiment in in 1975 (covered in this podcast)

Context-dependent cues

This clip goes through methods of sampling - convenience, random &amp; stratified, it examines advantages and disadvantages of each type of sampling and briefly explains the process.

Sampling - VCE Psychology

This podcast covers 1 of the 6 Psychological characteristics that we can use to distinguish a normal waking consciousness from an altered state of consciousness

Perceptual and Cogntive distortions during an ASC

Thic podcast covers the use of the EOG and EMG in indicating stages of sleep. See ePsychVCE.com facebook page for additional feeds for the Psychology student.

Thic podcast covers the use of the EOG and EMG in indicating stages of sleep. See <a href="http://ePsychVCE.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ePsychVCE.com</a> facebook page for additional feeds for the Psychology student.

EMG and EOG

This podcast examines the use of sleep labs, video monitoring and self reports in studying sleep

Methods used to study sleep e.g. sleep lab

This podcast covers the 4 stages of NREM sleep. See www.ePsychVCE.com for additional VCE Psych resources

This podcast covers the 4 stages of NREM sleep. See <a href="http://www.ePsychVCE.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ePsychVCE.com</a> for additional VCE Psych resources

NREM sleep

This podcast covers the first of 3 research designs - repeated measures. The advantages and disadvantages are discussed along with means of overcoming the order effect.

Repeated measures

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