Approaches in Psychology: Joker'

This booklet contains a range of activities and tasks to introduce pupils studying Psychology to five approaches while encouraging them to practice applying the core principles underlying each approach to the movie ‘Joker’.

The approaches covered include: the biological approach, psychoanalytic approach, the cognitive approach and the behaviourist approach. Each approach is introduced with reference to key theorists and research followed by tasks/activities including QR codes to articles and videos to stretch pupils who need more challenge.

This booklet may also be used as part of a media unit in English to enable a deeper interpretation of the movie in relation to various psychological contexts/theories.