Excelling Psychology

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- The myriads of questions that students pose to their tutors are more than satisfying for them, for they reflect students' curiosity and their desire for knowledge. Among these countless questions that are impossible to keep track of, are a few that the tutor cannot help but notice as being distinctive, for they come to her so often that they enter her personal collection of FAQs that she then anticipates and incorporates into her lessons. My own lessons have benefited from quite a few such questions themselves and in this series, I present a selection of those questions and answers that have made their way into my personal repository of tutoring. In this first post of the FAQ series, I address a query on psychological research, full of misconceptio...

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- Writing tiny-looking short notes appears to be an easy task. But in reality, when it comes  to a subject like psychology in which abundant information is available, condensing that information into a precise and relevant answer is a confusing task. Let's take a look at how an answer can be made as informative as possible in a mere 100 words: Q. Describe the role of the hippocampus in memory. Ans. The hippocampus, located in the medial temporal lobe of the brain plays a key role in the consolidation of memory . The case study of H.M. by Dr. Milner showed that only bilateral damage to the hippocampus results in a severe loss of memory suggesting that hippocampi in both hemispheres co-ordinate for keeping long-term memories intact. The later case st...

(Please Note - I have diversified my work on Excelling Psychology into different blogs for better organization of content. I am continually working on the same, so these sites will be updated with more content soon. IGNOU Psychology learners may be interested in the following: Model answers for various blocks of sub-communities of courses: https://psychologymodelanswers.blogspot.com/2019/04/ignou-bpc-001-sample-answer-for.html Statistics for Psychology in very simple language: https://statisticsforpsychology.blogspot.com/ )  IGNOU notes provide answers of perfect length and content for examination questions. But how much information can you remember without understanding any of it? In this series, I provide a series of simplified explanations to supplement the Statistics component of MAPC.  This guide is for the introductory unit - Block 1 Unit 1.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Year after year, there is an incredible fear of statistics from students across Universities. I would expect students to be excited for the subject, for it is such a relief from theory, and is very 'scoring.' On the contrary, students wish it were one subject they did not have to deal with. Why do students fear statistics? There are two answers to this. The first is that it's fear has been hyped beyond measure through the years, and students are not particularly known to pause and think about the rationality of what goes around. The second is that professors fail to teach statistics on two counts - they are unable to present solutions in a clear, step-by-step manner and they are unable to make students see the importance of statistics in the field of Psychology. I remember one of my professors coming into the class and laughing about the fact that she barely knew anything about statistics. She would then open a statistics book every lecture and dictate whatever was w...