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Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry Lecture 19 - Metals and the Reactivity Series. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.15 - Understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on their reactions with water or dilute acid.
Specification Point 2.16 - Understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on displacement reactions.
Specification Point 2.17 - Know the order of reactivity of these metals: potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, zinc, iron, copper, silver, and gold.
Specification Point 2.18 - Know the conditions under which iron rusts.
Specification Point 2.19 - Understand how the rusting of iron may be prevented by barrier methods, galvanising and sacrificial protection.
Specification Point 2.20 - Understand the terms oxidation, reduction, redox, oxidising agent and reducing agent in terms of the gain or loss of oxygen and the loss or gain of electrons.
Specification Point 2.21 - Practical: investigate reactions between dilute hydrochloric and sulfuric acids and metals (e.g. magnesium, zinc and iron).
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Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Variables: manipulation and control of variables, including independent, dependent, extraneous, confounding; operationalisation of variables.
Control: random allocation and counterbalancing, randomisation and standardisation.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.
Reliability across all methods of investigation. Ways of assessing reliability: test-retest and inter-observer; improving reliability.
Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving validity.
Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.
The role of peer review in the scientific process.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Demand characteristics and investigator effects.
Ethics, including the role of the British Psychological Society’s code of ethics; ethical issues in the design and conduct of psychological studies; dealing with ethical issues in research.
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Specification Point 4.3.1 - Issues and debates in psychology.
Gender and culture in psychology – universality and bias.
Gender bias including androcentrism and alpha and beta bias.
Cultural bias, including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.2 - Data handling and analysis.
Quantitative and qualitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques.
Primary and secondary data, including meta-analysis.
Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency – mean, median, mode; calculation of mean, median and mode; measures of dispersion; range and standard deviation; calculation of range.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.2 - Data handling and analysis.
Calculation of percentages; positive, negative and zero correlations.
Distributions: normal and skewed distributions; characteristics of normal and skewed distributions.
Presentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar charts, histograms.
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Complete set of concise, modern presentations and associated PDF worksheets for Edexcel IGCSE Biology (4BI0) Chapter 4 - Coordination and Control. Contains colour coded specification points with handmade vector graphics. Nine presentations and companion worksheets included:
27 - Excretion
28 - The Kidneys
29 - Coordination
30 - Coordination in Plants
31 - Coordination in Humans
32 - Reflexes and the Eye
33 - Controlling Body Temperature
34 - Hormones
35 - More Hormones
Complete set of PDF worksheets for Edexcel IGCSE Biology (4BI0) Chapter 4 - Coordination and Control. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions. All questions are original. Nine worksheets included:
27 - Excretion
28 - The Kidneys
29 - Coordination
30 - Coordination in Plants
31 - Coordination in Humans
32 - Reflexes and the Eye
33 - Controlling Body Temperature
34 - Hormones
35 - More Hormones
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Specification Point 2.90 - Describe the structure and functioning of a simple reflex arc illustrated by the withdrawal of a finger from a hot object.
Specification Point 2.91 - Describe the structure and function of the eye as a receptor.
Specification Point 2.92 - Understand the function of the eye in focusing on near and distant objects, and in responding to changes in light intensity.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 32 - Reflexes and the Eye. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.90 - Describe the structure and functioning of a simple reflex arc illustrated by the withdrawal of a finger from a hot object.
Specification Point 2.91 - Describe the structure and function of the eye as a receptor.
Specification Point 2.92 - Understand the function of the eye in focusing on near and distant objects, and in responding to changes in light intensity.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A Level Psychology (7181 and 7182) Chapter 7 - Research Methods. Contains colour coded specification points. Nine presentations included:
33 - Research Methods
34 - Scientific Processes
35 - Designing Experiments
36 - Variables and Controls
37 - Ethics in Psychology
38 - Creating and Publishing Research
39 - Data Handling
40 - Presenting Data
41 - Inferential Statistics
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Specification Point 4.2.3 - Research Methods.
Experimental method. Types of experiment, laboratory and field experiments; natural and quasi-experiments.
Observational techniques. Types of observation: naturalistic and controlled observation; covert and overt observation; participant and non-participant observation.
Self-report techniques. Questionnaires; interviews, structured and unstructured.
Content analysis.
Case studies.
Correlations. Analysis of the relationship between co-variables. The difference between correlations and experiments.
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Specification Point 4.3.2 - Relationships.
Parasocial relationships: levels of parasocial relationships, the absorption addiction model and the attachment theory explanation.
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Specification Point 3.24P - Know that the frequency range for human hearing is 20–20,000 Hz.
Specification Point 3.25P - Practical: investigate the speed of sound in air.
Specification Point 3.26P - Understand how an oscilloscope and microphone can be used to display a sound wave.
Specification Point 3.27P - Practical: investigate the frequency of a sound wave using an oscilloscope.
Specification Point 3.28P - Understand how the pitch of a sound relates to the frequency of vibration of the source.
Specification Point 3.29P - Understand how the loudness of a sound relates to the amplitude of vibration of the source.
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Specification Point 1.18 - Know and use the relationship between weight, mass and gravitational field strength.
Specification Point 1.19 - Know that the stopping distance of a vehicle is made up of the sum of the thinking distance and the braking distance.
Specification Point 1.20 - Describe the factors affecting vehicle stopping distance, including speed, mass, road condition and reaction time.
Specification Point 1.21 - Describe the forces acting on falling objects and explain why falling objects reach a terminal velocity.
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Specification Point 1.6 - Know and use the relationship between acceleration, change in velocity and time taken.
Specification Point 1.7 - Plot and explain velocity-time graphs.
Specification Point 1.8 - Determine acceleration from the gradient of a velocity−time graph.
Specification Point 1.9 - Determine the distance travelled from the area between a velocity-time graph and the time axis.
Specification Point 1.10 - Use the relationship between final speed, initial speed, acceleration and distance moved.
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Specification Point 1.11 - Describe the effects of forces between bodies such as changes in speed, shape or direction.
Specification Point 1.12 - Identify different types of force such as gravitational or electrostatic.
Specification Point 1.13 - Understand how vector quantities differ from scalar quantities.
Specification Point 1.14 - Understand that force is a vector quantity.
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Specification Point 1.22 - Practical: investigate how extension varies with applied force for helical springs, metal wires and rubber bands.
Specification Point 1.23 - Know that the initial linear region of a force-extension graph is associated with Hooke’s law.
Specification Point 1.24 - Describe elastic behaviour as the ability of a material to recover its original shape after the forces causing deformation have been removed.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lessons are available.