Extra Curricular

Clubs

Psychology Society (Psych Soc)

Coordinators : Lara Blatt and Issy Grimes

Location: H1

Time: Tuesday Break

Student Lead discussion group covering a wide range of psychology related topic. All KS4 and 5 students are welcome to attend

Trips and Visits

Psychology in Action - Nov/Dec

The theme of the day is: The Power of the Mind. This is a wide-ranging programme examining the theories and applications of psychology in the modern world. Five incredibly engaging sessions will help students realise their potential and discover the impact they can have on the world.

Topics:

  • The psychology of a magician

  • Dance and the brain

  • Why sex is fun, but gender rarely is

  • “There’s an eyeball in my soup!” Life as a forensic psychologist

  • Mastering memory

For further detail about the event go to: https://thetrainingpartnership.org.uk/study-day/psychology-in-action-22-11-2022/


Wider Reading

Most of the books below are available in the school library—there are a variety of topics so you should find something of interest—very useful for UCAS personal statements and for broadening your understanding of contemporary topics in Psychology. (ISBN numbers and prices are listed in case you are interested in purchasing your own copy).

  • Inventing ourselves: The secret life of the teenage brain by Sarah Jayne Blakemore ISBN 978-0857523709

  • The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ISBN 978-0330492270

  • Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Dr Allan Ropper and Brian David Burrell.

  • Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese

  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

  • The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

  • The Epigenetic Revolution by Nessa Carey ISBN-13: 978-1848313477 (£7.25)

  • Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield ISBN-13: 978-0141007205 (£6.89)

  • Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia Axline ISBN-13: 978-0140134599 (play therapy £6.89)

  • The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine ISBN-13: 978-0141046860 (£7.58)

  • The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron ISBN-13: 978-1447261667 (£12.72)

  • Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley ISBN-13: 978-1841157467 (£6.89)

  • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker ISBN-13: 978-0140244915 (£6.89)

  • The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo ISBN-13: 978-1846041037 (Conformity and Obedience-£6.99)

  • Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom ISBN-13: 978-0141975443 (psychiatry £ 6.89)

  • Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love by Helen Fisher ISBN-13: 978-0805077964 (evolutionary psychology-£10.10)

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini ISBN-13: 978-0061241895 (£7.58)

  • Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness exercises for kids by Eline Snel ISBN-13: 978-1611800586 (£8.96)

  • Forever Today: a Memoir of Love and Amnesia by Deborah Wearing ISBN-13: 978-0552771696 (memory-£8.40)

  • Musicophila: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks ISBN-13: 978-0330523592 (psychopathology-£6.57)

  • The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain by Simon Baron- Cohen ISBN-13: 978-0241961353 (autism-£ 6.89)

  • Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by David Canter ISBN-13: 978-0199550203 (£5.51)

  • Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine ISBN-13: 978-1848312203 (£6.20)

  • Sex at Dawn by Ryan and Jetha ISBN-13: 978-0061707810 (Evolutionary Psychology-£6.89)

  • Madness explained by Richard Bentall ISBN-13: 978-0141023694 (Defining Mental Illness-£7.69)

  • The Tell-tale Brain by VS Ramachandran ISBN-13: 978-0099537595 (pschopathology-£6.29)

  • An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks ISBN-13: 978-0330523608 (£6.99)

  • An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN-13: 978-0330528078 (Bi Polar disorder-£6.29)

  • Sybil by Flora Schreiber ISBN-13: 978-0808505174 (Dissociative disorder/multiple personality disorder-£7.35)

  • Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin ISBN-13: 978-0747566694 (Aspergers/Autism-£6.99)

  • Criminal Psychology (Beginner's Guide) by R Bull, C Cooke and R Hatcher ISBN-13: 978-1851687077 (£8.85)

  • Pieces of Light: The new science of memory By Charles Fernyhough ISBN-13: 978-1846684494 (£6.99)

  • The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born it's grown: Daniel Coyle ISBN-13: 978-0099519850 (nature-nurture debate £6.29)

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks ISBN-13: 978-0330523622 (£6.29)

  • Flourish: a New Understanding of Happiness and Wellbeing by Martin Seligman ISBN-13: 978-1857885699 (£10.49)

  • Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology by Martin Seligman ISBN-13: 978-1857883299 (£10.50)