This is a 4 page student hand out that focuses on the skills required for any A level exam board. Includes a break down of how to evaluate a theory and/or study, includes useful mnemonics for students to develop writing longer answers. Another page has a useful diagram displaying how to unpack the claims and components of a model or psychological theory.

A set of student worksheets about case studies, correlations, experimental methods, observations and self report methods used in psychological research. Some contain research scenarios for students to design their own studies. Others contain short activities.

This power point lesson on Validity and Reliability in Psychological Research has the background definitions, facts, examples and explanations of the difference between validity and reliability. Use it to teach these 2 elements of any psychology syllabus. It includes exam style questions and sample answers.

A power point lesson for the teacher/tutor to lead and explain. Contains all the background to Freud’s theory. Id, Ego, Super -ego, the psycho-sexual stages of development, the Oedipus and Electra complexes and the Little Hans study. There is a student template for planning an essay question on Freud. The slides can be used in a variety of tasks and can be printed for students to make notes of create a development “timeline” for each stage or make a storyboard of the complexes.

This is a lesson and a set of student resources in one. The background slide gives the lesson the context then there is a mnemonic to enable students to learn and recall the types of data in psychological research. This is followed by a flowchart diagram showing how to choose the correct statistical test. Finally there is a partially filled task to show students how to decide on which data and test to use to be applied to existing studies they have covered, or for them to design their own research. All the slides should be printed and used in a tutorial style interactive lesson.

The resource has 3 sections, the power point gives an overview to be used in a lesson/tutorial, it contains information about why students need to know and be able to write about debates and approaches in psychology. Teachers can work through it as a whole group or students use the handout to complete each slide. The handout gives detailed explanations of the debates and approaches in psychology, students use this to complete the power point slides. Teachers can vary how they use these resources. The 3rd resource is simply some prompt posters to support writing longer answers in the A level exam.

This can be used as a starter or plenary. Can be done in pairs or solo, you could read over the answers and share student responses. Simple.

These can be used in all kinds of ways, you could print onto coloured card, cut up and get students to match up the main critic’s point with the explanation. You could also cut them up and give one part to students, then get students to reconstruct the sheet.

This lesson is designed to take student through the chunking experiment that links to capacity and duration in the MSM. It has full instruction to explain how to get started and a printable results table for students to gather the raw data. It provides a good opportunity to link in to research methods and develop student’s understanding of and ability to write about how research in psychology works. It is accompanied by a help sheet for students to write up the experiment once they’ve carried it out. This could be given as a homework task following the DIY lesson. Both these resources link to pages 125-126 of the new spec (OCR)textbook. Finally, the homework sheet can be easily adapted for use on writing up any of the other student DIY tasks (now for some maths!)

This works to revise the theory and has a quick recap then the main task is for students to work in pairs on reconstructing the diagram of the MSM. The blank diagram is for students and should be printed and enlarged to A3. The idea is that students are allowed to “peep” at the original which is fully annotated, then take turns to build up their copy with the correct descriptions of the components of this theory. At the end of the power point there are 2 slides that can be differentiated in lots of ways to support independent writing about the theory.

Use this as a generic any theory worksheet template. It can be used to summarise, analyse, evaluate knowledge of a theory and has been adapted for psychological theories from the 6 thinking hats.

Simply select a thunk and paste it onto your starter slide. Suitable for psychology students. Useful as a quick starter, though i wouldn’t use thunks every lesson.

Print out onto coloured card, students summarise each theory and linking study as they work through the unit, should be done without notes. Store in a revision folder separate from class book and notes, then use as a revision resource later in the course. I have these for all units in the new spec. Email if you need them.

These 2 worksheets support students to plan and write about Piaget's stage theory and conservation study. One has partially written sentences, students then complete the answer to develop their exam skills on the 13 mark question. The other is about Piaget's stage theory and can be used as a writing frame for students to use with notes to develop extended writing or as an assessment after studying Piaget's stage theory.

This worksheet supports the student in planning and writing their 13 mark essay style answer. It has a mark scheme attached and useful starter and connecting sentences. I used this following the study of the theories about criminal behaviour as exam practice. You could use it as an assessment or just to plan an answer.

This worksheet describes the approaches and debates in psychology which are embedded in the new OCR spec. Students can learn about these through discussions or group work. The second page shows how the theories and studies in the new spec link to the different debates and approaches and has a student task that can run throughout the whole GCSE as students learn to apply the debates in evaluating studies and theories.

Students work in groups to summarise each problem of the theory. Can be adapted to do a carousel activity, display clues on the board for each weakness, students have to read each one and match them up.

Background and context for students to plan, design and carry out a survey to study the link between strictness of parent and obedience levels. Worksheet to support this task.

The starter activities link to research methodology and get students to think critically about questionnaires. Then this lesson follows on from the core study. It allows you to teach the main weaknesses of the study and ask students how they can expand on them. Students should then try out a 13 mark question or write about how the study could be improved.

New OCR psychology spec. Background information and student activities all in one power point.