Extra bits from the unit 1 (Research Methods) content of the OCR A Level Psychology specification. Powerpoint outlines additional information needed for unit 1 sections A and C including induction vs deduction, hypotheses, levels of data, referencing, report writing etc.

Issues in Mental Health Topic 3 in line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) within the OCR A Level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint includes key terms & definitions, key research summary, explanation summaries (behaviourist, cognitive and humanistic), treatment summaries, videos and prompts for evaluation throughout.

Issues in Mental Health Topic 2 in line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) in line with the OCR A Level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint includes key terms/definitions, summary of explanations (biochemical, genetic and brain abnormality), summary of key research, explanations of treatments (SSRIs, ECT and TMS) with prompts for evaluation throughout.

Issues in Mental Health Topic 1 in line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) of the OCR A Level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint includes historical views (x4), videos, key research summary, summary of Rosenhan & Seligman’s definitions of abnormality, DSM 5 summary, summary of characteristics of disorders (depression, schizophrenia and phobias) with prompts for evaluation throughout.

Criminal Psychology Topic 3. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Criminal Psychology Topic 5. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, discussion tasks, video, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Criminal Psychology Topic 4. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, discussion tasks, practical activities, video, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Criminal Psychology Topic 6. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions,discussion tasks, videos, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Environmental Psychology Topic 4. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, video of good ergonomics, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B. Also attached is a pdf of the monitor for students to label as an activity.

Environmental Psychology Topic 5. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, discussion task, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Environmental Psychology Topic 6. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, video, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B. Another activity I use but could not include for GDPR reasons is guess the desk. Take pictures of your colleague’s desks and get students to guess which desk belongs to who.

Environmental Psychology Topic 3. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, videos, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Environmental Psychology Topic 2. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, discussion tasks, video, key terms & definitions, key research summaries, additional study summary and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Experiments as part of unit 1 (Research Methods) in the OCR A level Specification. Powerpoint includes key terms and definitions, strengths and weaknesses, practical tasks, discussion tasks, exam questions with answers, guidance for revision etc. Content covers: what an experiment is (including criteria, conditions etc) types of experiments (with evaluation) designs of experiments (with evaluation) measures of central tendency (with evaluation) measures of dispersion (with evaluation and walk through of variance and standard deviation examples) sampling methods (with evaluation) extraneous variables types of data (with evaluation) blind procedures types of hypotheses (with reference to mark schemes and marking activity)

Environmental Psychology Topic 1. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, discussion tasks, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Self Report in line with Unit 1 (Research Methods) of the OCR A Level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint includes key terms & definitions covering questionnaires (including question types), interviews, extraneous variables, types of reliability and more! Also includes evaluation of techniques, discussion activities and group practical project task at the end.

Criminal Psychology Topic 2. As part of the OCR A level Specification Unit 3 (Applied Psychology). Powerpoint includes background to the topic, discussion activities, fingerprint activity, research summaries and practicals/examples as well as structure guidance for evaluation and application questions.

OCR A Level Psychology Observation Content. 1 of the 4 Research Methods needed for Unit 1 - Research Methods. Powerpoint includes answers to the observation starter (also attached), video to test observation skills, discussion activities, key terms and definitions, strengths & weaknesses as well as links to core studies and real life examples.

Guidance for the Unit 1 (Research Methods) section B 15 mark questions. As part of the OCR A level Psychology specification. Powerpoint includes overview of the paper, example of a 15 mark question (from the 2022 paper), outline of structure for each paragraph, example paragraph with explanation why it is good and a spot the mistakes activity. I’ve attached the spot the mistakes activity as a worksheet (both pdf and word). Students will write mistake(s) under each paragraph and can also fix the paragraphs by deleting/adding stuff in. Space has been allowed for this on the sheet but can also be done ‘live’ on a teacher computer if preferred.

Reliability & Validity Powerpoint/Lesson. In line with the OCR A level Psychology but most likely relevant for other courses too. Terms defined: Internal reliability External reliability Split-half reliability Inter-rater reliability Test-retest reliability Construct validity Concurrent validity Ecological validity Population validity Face Validity Criterion validity Powerpoint includes definitions, real life/study examples, identify the type of reliability/validity activities, common misconceptions addressed, exam questions (with structure and example answers) and sort the term/word activity.