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Welcome to this unofficial DSE212 psychology website (also see sites for ED209, D309, D317 and the MyStudyGuide site for lots of other topics.)

If you would like to make life easier for yourself then you can order the CD/PDF/Printed version of the studyguide from here or download the PDF version from PayPal and have it in minutes. I am happy to send it on a "try before you buy" basis so you might as well just email me anyway.

What's in the News.

Look at some of the Feedback at Amazon or personal feedback about the studyguide and you can see that other students think it really is worth the money!

Ali Chryssides writes "I've bought your CD Roms 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. 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!"

Top Psychology books are listed here though you certainly don't have to buy anything other than the course materials (well apart from my CD that is!). Accelerated Learning is very popular and the power of subliminal messaging or maybe you just need to learn to Relax.Buy a t-shirt or mug with a cross-section of the somato-sensory cortex.

Went to a fascinating talk a few months ago 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.