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)
OCR GCSE Psychology (9-1): Development
Paper One: Studies and applications in psychology
Covers:
Stages of development; pre-natal; childhood; adolescence; and adulthood
The development of brain structures and functions; the nervous system; neurons; synapses; and their interaction in development of the brain
IQ tests as a measure of intelligence.
Theories/Explanations
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
The Role of Learning on Development –
Dweck’s Mindset Theory
Willingham’s Learning Theory
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development:
The four invariant stages of development: sensori-motor; pre-operational; concrete-operational; formal operational assimilation and accommodation
The concepts of object permanence; animism; and egocentrism
The processes of decentration; reversibility; and conservation
Criticisms of the theory including the reductionism/holism debate.
Cognitive Development Research Study – Piaget (1952): Study into the conservation of number.
Learning theories of development:
Dweck’s ideas on fixed and growth mindsets
Dweck’s ideas on praise for effort
Willingham’s ideas on the myth of learning styles
Willingham’s ideas on the importance of meaning for learning
Criticisms of learning theories including the nature/nurture debate
Learning Research Study – Blackwell et al. (2007): study into fixed and growth mindsets.
Application: The changing role of education
How Piaget’s ideas have been applied to education through the use of key stages, readiness, active learning and the concept of intelligence
How learning theories apply to the development of education and intelligence through growth mindsets and teaching through meaning not learning styles
Consists of an extensive PPT display (120 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, exam style questions, activities to encourage thinking and links to resources.
Content aims to be additional to the textbook.
Complete coverage of this module, 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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The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Edexcel GCSE Psychology (9-1): Memory
Paper 1, Exploring human behaviour, Topic 2: Memory
Full Coverage of:
• The structure and process of memory and information
processing:
• The features of short-term and long-term
memory
• Retrograde and anterograde amnesia
• The active process of memory through the
Theory of Reconstructive Memory (Bartlett, 1932)
• The structure and process of memory through the Multi-store Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin,1968)
• Issues and Debates: Reductionism and Holism
…and the Key Studies: Bartlett (1932) War of the Ghosts and Peterson and Peterson (1959) Short-term Retention of Individual Verbal Items
Consists of an extensive PPT display (72 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has: test your knowledge, exam style questions, activities to encourage thinking and links at end for key study resources
Complete coverage of this whole module, 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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IF YOU PURCHASE THIS RESOURCE, FEEDBACK IS REALLY APPRECIATED AND HELPS ME TO AMEND AND IMPROVE (YOU AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE UPDATES) …. Thanks
The experienced 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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The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
This bundle includes
1 x fully photo-copiable workbook (over 100 pages)
1 x PPT display (100 slides) to accompany as aid to teaching
The workbook progressively covers areas including:
o Basic mathematical skills
o Decimal / Standard form data
o Fractions / Percentages / Ratios
o Order of magnitude
o Range / Standard Deviation
o Measures of central tendency
o Graphs / Charts
o Algebra
o Probability / Significance
o Statistical tests
Each section includes: detailed explanations, rationales, worked examples, exercises and ‘self-check’ answers. At the end are a range of sample examination papers, covering a variety of potential mathematical questions; also ‘self-check’ answers
Overall, at least 10% of the marks in assessments for A-Level Psychology will require the use of mathematical skills.
These skills should be at least the standard of higher tier GCSE mathematics.
This unique and extensive workbook is designed for both experienced teachers, those new to teaching psychology and students of all abilities. It is fully updated to match the new 2015 specification (first examination: AS 2016 and Year 1 A-level 2017) and is suitable for ALL major Examination Boards.
Quite simply, all you need to gain confidence in your mathematical ability; as a teacher or student.
This product is both suitable to be ring-bound to create a student hard copy or printed-out in sections to create separate worksheets.
Topics@Psychology#6: Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
An Introduction into how cognitive psychology has lead the way in the development of artificial intelligence.
Ideal to show as an extension to studying approaches, issues and debates.
The PPT slides progressively cover what is intelligence and the development of artificial intelligence and artificial life forms (AL).
Development of AI includes: The Chinese Room, The Turin Test (and Eugene who recently passed), ASIMO, CYCORPS and Wetware.
Students are asked to consider a range of difficult issues including: Can a machine become a life-form, should it have ethical protection, who should monitor the development (doomsday scenarios) and do you need embodiment to be sentient?
Consists of a PPT display (32 slides) with under slide comments linking to online videos; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
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.
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OCR A-Level Psychology. Revision Bites. Section B, Option 1. Child Psychology: Perceptual Development (Cognitive)
PowerPoint presentation (23 slides), covers the following in a clear and straight forward way:
What is perception and how is it studied?
Human and animal studies
Key research: Gibson & Walk (1960) “The Visual Cliff”
Application: Strategies to develop perception in young children
Examination style questions
Constructive feed back is always appreciated, so I can amend and improve
The author, Andy McCarthy is a chartered psychologist, publicist and an experienced teacher and university lecturer.
Thank You
Extensive Powerpoints and Resource/workbooks covering:
Paper 2 (Psychology in context)
- Approaches in psychology
- Biopsychology (mainly Year 1)
-Research Methods
- Psychopathology (AS only, was included in a bundle for Year 1, paper 1)
The author Andy McCarthy is an experience teacher, Lecturer and publisher....
Psychology Sperry (1968) ‘Split Brain’ Research: “Made Simple”
Simple diagram, explanation and test your knowledge questions (answers supplied)
Presented in a simple, clear way to enable understanding
Constructive feedback always appreciated (especially do you agree with it!)
Do look at my other resources, some for all examination boards GCSE and A-Level Psychology (just starting Edexcel GCSE Psychology and AQA / OCR Psychology all modules available individually or in bundles)
Thank you and I hope this handout helps
Andy McCarthy CPsychol