Hello, I'm Tom. Welcome to Bear it in MIND! By day I’m a full-time A-level Psychology teacher with a Psychology degree. By night I make videos exploring all things Psychology on this channel. I started Bear it in MIND to share my own passion for Psychology, and to provide people with content to help us better understand ourselves and others.
Here you'll find AQA Psychology videos which will support your learning of A-level Psychology for the AQA specification. This channel is about much more than A-level Psychology, and so you'll be able to:
- explore the wider areas of Psychology - discover how the tools of Psychology can improve the everyday aspects of our lives, such as how to sleep better, study smarter, stress less, and think for yourself.
They relate to evaluative points: Green ticks for strengths/supporting evidence, Red crosses for limitations/counter evidence. See the worksheet that goes with each video.
You're so welcome! Delighted the videos have been helping your understanding. Hope you enjoy many more of them, and they help you knock it out of the park next summer!
Thank you so much for these videos I haven’t been well and haven’t had enough motivation to study recently but these videos are encouraging me to still revise as much as I can and are so simple to understand. My paper 1 mock is tmrw, I’ve done paper 2 last Wednesday and it was alright, hoping I can manage to get an A.
You are so welcome! Delighted the videos have been helpful for you, particularly when you've not been feeling your best 😊 Hope Paper 1 went well today. Do let me know if I can be of any help with you getting that A next year👍
Went through your videos, grasped everything immediately as explained in such a clear, calm manner with very good narrative with great graphics. Thanks a Ton!!
Thank you very much 😊 That's very kind of you say. Delighted to hear the videos have been helping your understanding. Hope you enjoy many more on the channel!
thank you so much for this video! my psychology teacher has been absent for a mock, meaning we had to self teach psychopathology and these videos make it so much easier rather than copying from a textbook. may I ask if you will be covering the options in psychology e.g gender schizophrenia and forensic psych?
Delighted the videos have been able to help you during this time 😊 Plans to cover Paper 3 are in the works. Forensics will most likely be the first topic i'll cover.
Glutathione is a redox buffer that regulates ATP production in the mitochondria. I have been using liposomal glutathione for about 20 months now. I "suck" 2 - 4ml in the morning and I find that my REM sleep is greatly improved. I used to wake at 4am and not go back to sleep, now I awaken after 7 - 8 hours of nutritious sleep, usually after an imaginative dream. I'm trying to spread the work, I want people to study this simple treatment further
This theory makes sense because we are emotional beings. I'm pretty sure ethical and professional researchers are paid by strong organizations that, like Maslow, might be biased as well.
I agree Veronica - the theory does seem to connect with much of our experience. If we are made in the image of a God who is Himself relational, a trinity, then we would expect the most important reality to be relationships (which Ephesians 4v1-2 is based on).
Ha ha. Sorry. I sound like I’m giving you feedback after interview. The video is fab. Your great. Will watch many more from you. Keep up the good work (ooops there I go again😂)
😂 Ha ha - don't worry. I didn't read it in that way at all. I thought you comment was very kind. Hope you enjoy many more of the videos on the channel. What's your interest in psychology? Are you studying/teaching?
I just came up with the Name Sigmund Freud and I found out your video which it was a true pleasure to watch and get introduced to Freud Principles. I’m sure I’ll watch it a couple of time more to understand better.
Hmmm... the focus of this section is on animal studies to understand human attachment. Bowlby's monotropic puts the emphasis on an instinct, nature view of attachment, which Lorenz's research does relate to. So there are biological elements involved. There are many other evaluative points you can use to discuss the animal studies so go for them.
Dear, Mr Bear it in Mind. Thank you very much for your content, I really appreciate the effort you put to explain the different areas of psychology. However, I believe there is a mistake in the worksheet you did, since the type of neurons are mislabelled.
Glad you're enjoying the content. Could you help me out with the worksheet. I've checked the worksheet on the website that you can download and it looks right to me???
The example of Phineas Gage is commonly cited as purely biological. But take into account his behavior could have been in reaction to harassment. He would have been used as a laughing stock by anyone inhumane that made his life difficult from then on..
The biological process that is not considered and yet seen is the fight or flight response and that is more than simply psychological distress. And that is why the heart is affected in depression. They are focused on the brain and thinking when the heart is the major organ affected.
The reason that it is possible for us to have free will is that part of the process of human cognition applies rules of logic and mathematics, which do not strictly have to abide by any of physics (where we might assume that everything is predetermined). There are provably undetermined answers in logic and mathematics, and since human cognition can include conscious application of logic (which is not bound by physical laws) as part of a decision, including speculation about possible future outcomes of a decision which in turn can influence the decision, creating inherently nondeterministic self-referential thought, there is more than enough room in this indeterminacy for genuinely free will.
Thanks Mark. Really appreciate the in depth comment, and thought provoking comment. How would you respond if someone asked the following: Can human cognition (which includes as you put it 'conscious application of logic') be determined by something other than 'physical laws'?
@@BearitinMIND Of course it is, because logic cannot not bound by physical laws. Logic contains things like paradoxes, whose truth value cannot be determined (the simplest example being the liar paradox), showing that certain self-reflective concepts within logic provably do not correlate with any deterministic state that might otherwise be even theoretically predicted by physical laws, even if you knew 100% of the physical state leading up to that point. Since part of reasoning involves applying logic, and particularly when that logic is being self-reflective, it is intrinsically indeterminate. This is more than enough indeterminacy in here for free will. This does not mean we do not live in a purely deterministic universe, but suggests that non-determinism is an emergent property in something as complex as cognition, which even though the organ that it operates on operates on physical laws, the concepts which can exist within cognition do not have to be deterministic.
Note to clarify: Both the Autonomic Nervous System & Somatic Nervous System have reflex actions. The autonomic reflex arc affects the inner organs, and the somatic reflex arc affects muscles.
Hi Tom thanks so much for these! Quick question for you- my textbook says that the somatic nervous system is involved with reflex actions, in contrast to you saying that it's the autonomic nervous system. Is it that both are involved or might one be correct? I am inclined to believe the textbook because you said that the autonomic nervous system doesn't have sensory neurones, so maybe a reflex wouldn't work if there wasn't a stimulus to respond to? I might be misunderstanding this though! Thanks so much again :D
Hi Ana. Thanks for your question, and that's an important distinction. The textbook saying the somatic nervous system is involved with reflex actions is correct. I will add a Pinned comment to the video to clarify the following: Both the ANS and SNS have reflex actions. The autonomic reflex arc affects the inner organs, and the somatic reflex arc affects muscles.
Thank you, I'm studying psychology at the intermediate level but have as much material as a level since a level doesn't exist. I have understood more from these playlists than a year of my teacher's lessons.
would I just in an essay: CBT definition (mention Beck) REBT = branch of CBT. REBT = describe REBT (mentioning the extended 'D' and 'E') = state the three different types of disputing (Rational, Empirical and Pragmatic disputing) CBT = strengths and weaknesses feel like theres no point going into depth about CBT as its essentially just an umbrella of REBT with very little difference?
sorry ignore these notes, I love making them whilst the video plays so i don't forget any ideas systematic desensitisation: therapist and client makes a list of anxiety provoking phobic stimuli, and arrange these stimuli in a hierarchy, from least to most anxiety provoking. The therapist then teaches the client strategies needed in order to stay relaxed. Once the individual is relaxed, they are exposure to the first phobic stimulus, on the lowest hierarchy level. If the individual can remain relaxed throughout exposure, then they can move on to the next hierarchical level. Once the individual has remained relaxed in the highest anxiety provoking level (top of the hierarchal structure), then the phobia is cured. This is because fear and relaxation are two emotions that compete against oneanother, and can't exist at the same time. If an individual is relaxed, then they are no longer in fear of the phobic stimulus (whether thats a object, situation, place, social event etc.). This form of therapy targets the behavioural responses to a phobia, through gradual exposure, and is called systematic desensitisation . essay plan research support: Gilroy -> practical application for reducing symptoms of 40 patients with a phobic stimulus good for patients who lack the cognitive ability to communicate with the therapist -> therapist identifies the severity of the phobia through observable behaviour (i.e., exposure) not all real life situations, will represent a hierarchical structure of anxiety provoking stimuli -> in real life you may encounter the highest anxiety provoking stimuli first -> not representative of how clients may encounter a phobia -> especially as they won't have the social support from their therapist, outside of sessions doesn't identify the root of the problem -> doesn't manipulate the client's irrational thoughts -> more likely to relapse, or fail to treat another phobia without the support of the therapist if they encountered the conditioned stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus -> it can reinforce behaviour even more (have to redraw hierarchy) more expensive than flooding as a whole (over many sessions, rather than just one) harder for phobias which aren't specific (i.e. social phobias) -> tackle multiple phobias within the same exposure, or tackle each aspect individually?
I always enjoy watching your videos I forget that I’m even learning, including this one! I struggle a lot to find the motivation to study so honestly thank you.❤
The last exam draws near... i want to say thank you for all your videos, they undoubtedly have helped many achieve highly with their easy to digest and immersive design. Hope the best for everyone!
I am also planning to make videos that go beyond A-level psychology, so I would be very interested to know your thoughts on what videos you'd be interested me making on the channel that would help you?👇
