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.
I HAVE USED THIS RESOURCE IN THE CLASSROOM
Copying this resource for sharing or personal profit, is against copyright.
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.
A-Level Psychology, 3 x packs [36 pages] of Research Methods style questions (two packs come with suggested answers)
Designed with AQA in mind, but very suitable for other specifications with minor adjustments
Ideal for revision and preparation for examinations
Three work sheets #1 (6 x pages)and #2 (6 x pages) with suggested answers [They are only hints… feedback appreciated] supplied separately
Worksheet #3 is 24 pages long and set out by specification headings, no answers supplied (any problems email me on amac54@btinternet.com and will advise specific answers asap)
Thank you for reading this and if you do decide to purchase, feedback is very useful, so I can amend and improve (you are automatically notified of updates)
I have over 20 years’ experience of teaching psychology (GCSE, A-Level and Degree) … I hope you get as much enjoyment out of using these resources, as I had in producing them (they took ages!!!)
The author, Andy McCarthy is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher
POSTERS@PSYCH – Brighten up your walls
Download A4 size, print A3 (colour), laminate, fix on wall – stand back and admire (if on step ladder, dismount and then step back and admire)
Great for open evenings and Ofsted; or just to make people smile
Watch this space – more to come…
POSTERS@PSYCH – Brighten up your walls
Download A4 size, print A3 (colour), laminate, fix on wall – stand back and admire (if on step ladder, dismount and then step back and admire)
Great for open evenings and Ofsted; or just to make people smile
Watch this space – more to come…
POSTERS@PSYCH – Brighten up your walls
Download A4 size, print A3 (colour), laminate, fix on wall – stand back and admire (if on step ladder, dismount and then step back and admire)
Great for open evenings and Ofsted; or just to make people smile
Watch this space – more to come…
POSTERS@PSYCH – Brighten up your walls
Download A4 size, print A3 (colour), laminate, fix on wall – stand back and admire (if on step ladder, dismount and then step back and admire)
Great for open evenings and Ofsted; or just to make people smile
Watch this space – more to come…