Psychology Teaching Resources: A-Level and GCSE all boards
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Digital teaching resources for Psychology, all the major examination boards: AQA, OCR and EDEXCEL (A-Level and GCSE). Message me if you wish to purchase with a school invoice, it can be arranged (amac54@btinternet.com)
Digital teaching resources for Psychology, all the major examination boards: AQA, OCR and EDEXCEL (A-Level and GCSE). Message me if you wish to purchase with a school invoice, it can be arranged (amac54@btinternet.com)
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An Introductory Lesson/s for Psychology (suitable for all examination boards). Part of the ‘Topics@Psychology Series’ #1
Designed for recruiting Year Eleven students to psychology or an introductory lesson or two for new Year Twelve Psychology students.
Consists of a PPT display (69 slides) and a template to make ‘The Magic Dragon Illusion’
Suitable for ALL examination boards.
Covers a wide range of interesting topics including: what is psychology (and what it is not), approaches, how well do you know your brain, visual illusions and lots of counter intuitive insights into human behaviour.
Where appropriate notes and links are included off screen on bottom of slides.
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
More to come in this series soon. Any requests, visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Revision OCR A-Level Psychology: The four cognitive case studies
Paper 2
Psychological Themes Through Core Studies
Cognitive Psychology
Revision overviews of studies #5 to #8
#5. Loftus & Palmer
#6. Grant et al
#7. Moray
#8. Simons & Chabris
Consists of a PPT display (38 slides)
Complete coverage of the FOUR COGNITIVE, CORE STUDIES. In simple, clear and student friendly presentations. Hopefully demystifying some of the complex procedures and finding.
Just ‘pick up and go’… suitable for both new and experienced teachers
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
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Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Topics@Psychology#4: A Problem with the Concept of Freewill (all exam boards)
An Introduction to a Freewill vs Determinism Debate
Ideal to show as an extension to studying issues and debates.
The PPT slides progressively cover the Libet argument and build up to suggesting that we do not have any freewill, whatsoever!
Libet’s empirical argument is seductively simple, and should cause the student to question everything they believed about our freedom to choose.
Consists of a PPT display (22 slides) with under slide comments linking to online videos; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
Suitable for ALL examination boards.
Ideal potential use: Year Twelve Psychology students near end of their first year
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
Topics@Psychology#3 An Introduction to Gender Studies (all exam boards)
Ideal to show before studying gender with all examination boards. Progressively covers a wide range of interesting topics including: What are Sex and gender, is binary gender a universal (includes coverage of a wide range of terms), theories of gender development and a ‘psych analysis’ of Boy George.
Consists of a PPT display (37 slides) with under slide comments linking to articles and videos online; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
Suitable for ALL examination boards.
Ideal potential use: Year Twelve Psychology students near end of their first year
Where appropriate notes and links are included off screen on bottom of slides.
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
Topics@Psychology#2: A walk through psychology’s dark past (The history of therapy)
Progressively covers a wide range of interesting topics including: Hydrotherapy, Metrazol Shock Therapy, Insulin Coma Shock Therapy, Trans-orbital Lobotomy and ECT. The Roles of the DSM 5 and The Mental Health ACT. Concluding with some thoughts on psychology’s covert, dark and true purpose
Consists of a PPT display (25 slides) and a resource sheet with links to articles and videos online; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
Suitable for ALL examination boards.
Ideal potential use: Year Twelve Psychology students near end of their first year
Where appropriate notes and links are included off screen on bottom of slides.
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
Topics@Psychology#5: A shocking truth about perception
An Introduction to understanding a neuroscientific evaluation of the reliability of our perception (the external environment as constructed within our levels of consciousness and states of awareness).
The PPT slides progressively covers our modalities (senses) and destroys much of what we believe and supports the argument that we cannot be sure anything really exists outside of our neural networks.
Areas covered include: Synesthesia, does sound exist and The Matrixication of Reality (McCarthy and Lech, 2011)… This paper is uploaded as a free resource
Consists of a PPT display (45 slides) with under slide comments linking to online videos; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
The final slide has links to various internet resources
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/