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Recommended Age: Typically suitable for ages 10+, but ideal for 12+ due to some complex concepts and fast-paced editing.
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Content: Explores perception, memory, decision-making, and attention through interactive experiments and illusions.
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Tone: Engaging, science-based, and often humorous—great for sparking curiosity in psychology and neuroscience.
Recommended age: ​Best suited for ages 13+, younger viewers may need guidance to understand the emotional and scientific depth.
Content: Documenting Clive Wearing’s life with profound amnesia caused by herpes encephalitis. Explores themes such as memory, identity, emotional resilience, and caregiving and love.
Tone: Poignant and compassionate: The documentary emphasises Clive’s humanity and emotional experience, not just his clinical condition.
Key study in the GCSE and ALEVEL exams
Asch's conformity study
Solomon Asch investigated how group pressure affects individual decisions. In a line-matching task with an obvious correct answer, participants were placed in a group with confederates who deliberately gave wrong answer
Key study in the GCSE exam
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Jean Piaget proposed that children progress through four stages of cognitive development—sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational—each marked by qualitatively different ways of thinking.
Key study in the GCSE exam
The bystander effect is a social phenomenon where people are less likely to help in emergencies when others are present, due to diffusion of responsibility
Key study in the GCSE exam
Milgram's study of obedience
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram tested whether ordinary people would obey authority figures even when asked to harm others. Participants were instructed to deliver increasingly strong electric shocks to a “learner” (an actor) for wrong answers, despite hearing screams and pleads.
Why you're not stuck with the brain you're born with - BBC REEL
Scientists once thought that the brain was locked in place after puberty. But new technology shows that our brain continues to rewire itself and never stops changing as we age
The strange neuroscience of free will - BBC REEL
Do we really have free will? In a three part series, BBC Reel explores the hidden powers behind the choices we make.
What identical twins separated at birth teach us about genetics - BBC REEL
It's one of biology's biggest questions: is it nature or nurture that makes us who we are? Now, thanks to twin studies, scientists like Dr Nancy Segal may just have some answers. By studying identical twins separated at birth scientists can gain unique insight into just how much our genes influence our behaviour, personality and traits.
Between 1920 and 1968, psychologists conducted influential but often unethical experiments that harmed people and animals due to the lack of modern laws and ethical standards. These studies—now taught in psychology and mental health courses—help us understand how science evolved, what was learned, and why such practices are no longer acceptable. They serve as cautionary examples of the importance of ethical research today.