Open evening display activities Psychology

Includes a couple of resources I use on open evenings for promoting Psychology.

1. Serial Killer or Psychologist - I made these into cards with a photo on the front and descroption of who the person is on the back them laminated them. The idea is that the students have to sort the cards into two piles based on appearance alone. I then discuss things like lombroso theory, nature nuture of offending, biological causes (because if there are similarities in faces of criminals it could mean similarities in DNA etc), and offender profiling with them.

2. True or false statements - I put these in a jar and they pull out one and we discuss it.

3. A display poster of the topics we cover

4. Interesting Conditions - just some more unusual conditions that can be discussed

5. A mirror task shapes - if you buy a couple of small mirrors (the small mirror tiles work well from Ikea) then the students have to do the mirror task done by HM. Draw a line in the small 1cm gap between the lines of the shapes by only looking in the mirror. I do this by blocking their vision to their hand using another sheet of paper (or can use a card board box cut out.