GCSE psychology skills: Stanford prison experiment

This resource contains two lessons used to begin the GCSE AQA course. Using the SPE as an example, the lessons cover the skills needed to describe and evaluate a study.

Lesson 1:
Focuses on reading academically. Students complete a comprehension task where meta-cognition skills are demonstrated by the teacher. Students watch a short video related to the SPE and write-up the main findings.

Lesson 2:
Introduces the value of evaluation. Students complete a range of tasks, including a living graph, in which students can practice verbalising the strengths and weaknesses of an experiment.

This lesson follows the Psychology taster lesson.