2 powerpoints to cover the specification content:
Institutional aggression in the context of prisons: dispositional and situational explanations.
Media influences on aggression, including the effects of computer games. The role of
desensitisation, disinhibition and cognitive priming.
You will need:
A printer, counters and dice.
Included is the game board (A3) 18 Q&A cards and 6 blank Q&A cards (12 per A4)
Cut out the Question cards and stick the answers to the back.
This only covers the topics in Year 1 (Social Influence, Memory, Attachment, Approaches, Psychopathology and Research Methods) but the cards are easy to amend for Year 1/2.
This is a good revision or end of year activity - Get students into teams of your choice. Roll the dice, move your counter and answer the relevant colour question on the cards.
The aim is to collect all the colours before your opponents and finish in the middle.
44 slides which include an introduction to your course and information on how students learn including simple explanations on Schemas, Working Memory, Dual Coding, Cognitive Load, Learned Helplessness, Failure and Forgetting.
Easy to adapt.
Revision or Independent Study tasks.
Promotes wider reading and learning. Can be used alongside topics throughout the course
Two files are aimed towards AS style courses.
One file is a whole course guide including Schizophrenia, Aggression and Gender.
Includes;
2 handbooks for AQA Psychology and BTEC Health and Social Care which you’ll need to adapt to meet your own departments needs.
‘Nandos’ themed differentiated tasks for Psychology topics.
Independent Record Book template - Students to fill in what activities that are completing in ‘Private Study’ periods and what they have learnt from it.
Cover all core topics (excluding Research Methods) and Gender, Aggression and Schizophrenia.
Images provoke conversation or discussion with the reverse providing differentiated essay questions for all subtopics.
49 slides which covers 4-5 lessons.
Only covers the conformity section of Social Influence:
Types and explanations of conformity.
Asch
Zimbardo.
Additional information and links in the notes. Includes starters/plenaries and tasks.
Includes a concise guide of all studies that could be taught on the IB SL and HL course, showing overlap and best strategy.
Knowledge organiser includes a summary of each study for Biological, Cognitive, Sociocultural and Abnormality Q1 and Q2.
Ethics and Research Methods cheat sheet.
Summer transition work to be handed out after taster lessons.
Includes;
Extended Project Qualification
Sociology
Criminology
Psychology
Health and Social Care
All include suitable and relevant tasks to encourage critical thinking and prepare them for the demands of A Levels.
These 2 projects cover one whole term of work and allows students to work at their own pace whilst developing their skills.
Project one focuses on research methods (Psychology and the economy, peer review, reporting research and other baisc themes) and encourages student to research into a study of their choice and present the findings, exploring and critiquing the research methods before supporting them to conduct their own small scale research and present the findings.
Project two is enrichment and choice based, which allows students to work in groups to develop resources for the whole cohort, for themselves or for the next cohort.
Project 3 is a critical reading task.
2 Psychology taster lessons. One focuses on Attachment types and encourages students to complete a quiz to find out their own. It also included the ‘Marshmallow Test’ by Mischel. The second focuses on Biopsycholgy and labelling the brain.
There are various summer transition packs included.
Roughly 45 minutes, summer preparation booklets compliment these lessons.
Included:
Lessons which cover an intro to the unit B1, B2 and B3.
Safeguarding forms and a safeguarding pocket guide.
Human Rights Acts.
Guide to completing the coursework.
Lessons include resources to be printed on the slides, detailed notes for the teacher, videos and experiments to take part in.
Includes:
Intro to memory.
Multi-store model and its features including coding, capacity and duration.
Types of LTM.
Working Memory Model x2
Cognitive Interview
Exam technique and revision lesson.
A collection of revision resources for whole lessons or individual tasks. These are very easy to amend to whatever topic you want to focus on.
Rotating squares - Includes 11 essay questions. The aim is to give each student one essay question, give them a set time to complete the sections (AO1, I&D and AO3) then swap with another student for a set time, and again. Eventually, there will be several contributions for each essay.
Articulate - 60 Key terms of studies. Students work in teams. One student picks a card and must explain their word without saying the word. Others must figure out the word.
Revision clocks - Assign a topic. Give students 1 minute to complete each section of the clock.
Ask or answer - cut out cards. Student independently completes either asking the question that fits the answer or answering the question.
Someone who - You will need to add your own questions. Give students a sheet each, they need to ask their peers to tell them the answer and state who told them.
A03 burgers - interactive way to great effective AO3 paragraphs. In practice, I provided students with 'points' to guide them to create burgers.
'How to Revise Psychology' evidence based guide.
Issues and Debates synoptic activity
exam question brain dump
Includes:
Workbook with activities and questions.
Features of a science
Peer Review and Psychology and the Economy
Ethics
Reliability and Validity
Types of data and Levels of Measurement
Correlation and Co-efficient
Distribution of data / positive and negative skews
Content analysis and thematic analysis
Self-reporting
Inferential statistics (The sign test and 7 others)
‘Design a study’ guide
Exam questions for all areas.
End of Topic test with Mark Scheme.
If you’re intending on sharing these on your school website or with multiple students, you should be purchasing the school license.
Made for AQA Psychology and includes 1 A4 pager per topic of concise and summarised information with appropriate imagery. Optional topics include Aggression, Schizophrenia, Gender, Relationships and Forensic Psychology.
NEW - clean and simple designs for most topics. Once purchased you should be able to download any updates for free.
Includes:
6x approaches (Behaviourist, Biological, Humanistic, SLT, Cognitive and Psychodynamic) and includes basic assumptions, facts and one related humourous comic - I’ve based it around the AQA spec so it may need adjusting for others.
1x Hypothesis chart.
1x AO and Evaluation poster.
1x How to score highly on graph questions
1x measures of central tendency
1x PEEL and sentence starters
1x openers and connectives for essay writing
3x careers within psychology.
1x University entry requirement and map
1x Open Evening display
1x Sperry
1x Validity and Reliability key terms.
2x Literacy mat for desks.
1x psychology bunting
1x A3 timeline (8 pages)
1x brain diagram (4 pages)
The brain and connective posts can be found for free via a Google search.
15 interactive lessons for BTEC Tech Award Component 1, Learning Aim A.
Includes;
15 lessons
Homework
Coursework guidance.
Component 1 bundle available (LA.A and LA.B)