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Welcome to this unofficial DSE212 psychology website (also see MyStudyGuide site for lots of other topics.)

If you are studying DSE212 in 2008 you will make life easier for yourself by getting the download version and paying via PayPal £13.50 (mystudyguide@email.com) or sending a cheque or cash to my home address for £15.00.

Ali Chryssides wrote "I've bought your CD Roms [PDF/Word Files] for the OU BSc Psychology courses every year. I just wanted to thank you because I graduate on Saturday (1/4/06), but have also been awarded the BPS Top Student of the Year prize, and honestly, I owe much of that to your CDs [notes]. They really helped pull stuff together and put a new slant on a lot of the materials, and I'm so glad I bought them!"

Look at some of the personal feedback about the studyguide and you can see that other students think it really is worth the money or comments on my teaching from OU Staff! These sites are recommended by OUPS. An excellent new book for the psychology student is The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects.

In the News this week. Don't forget that there is a Companion Site to accompany the Statistics Without Maths for Psychology book

The Open University Psychology Society has lots of useful stuff including links to my sites of course. Interested in Applied Psychology

I went to a fascinating talk by Prof. G. Rizzolatti the discoverer of "mirror neurons" (something that Ramachandran has suggested is the discovery of the 20th Century). At it's simplest level, mirror neurons fire when you perform a purposeful action i.e. reaching for some food, however, they also fire when you see someone else reaching for some food. This could suggest that they play a major role in learning, for example, imitating other people having seen them gain food or whatever. Click on the link to see Ramachandran's article.

Try a self test or this one on evolution and one on Perception and Memory. .