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Matt Jarvis gives us a run-down of the best online resources for psychology students

In this issue, I explore sites on the vital A-level skill of evaluation and on the topic of psychopathy (or antisocial personality disorder).

We are all concerned at A-level with learning to think more critically about psychological material. Whichever specification you follow, you will have an assessment objective called AO3. This may be operationalised slightly differently in different specs, but it is essentially about looking for strengths, contributions, weaknesses and limitations of theories, research and applications in psychology. To begin, watch this video overviewing how to evaluate a study: www.tinyurl.com/y7ab3fv2. You can see another good video where a teacher talks through evaluative points here: www.tinyurl.com/ya3zy5es.

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