This is a student guidance booklet for undertaking an independent RESEARCH PROJECT into SOCIAL INEQUALITY for the OCR A Level Sociology (new specification) topic of RESEARCH METHODS & SOCIAL INEQUALITY. It is designed to be given to students after having taught research methods and social inequality content, they can then undertake their own mini-research project to fully apply their understanding of methods in the context of social inequality. The student booklet outlines the steps they should take and points to consider for using a secondary data, questionnaires and interviews, and the analysis, write-up, presentation and evaluation of their own project. Student could pick their own topic, I have a list of key areas that I tend to give to the students, for example age and poverty, gender and employment, ethnicity and education and so on, which guides them to a more narrowed down focus. Students can work in pairs and present their findings to the class which also adds to the overall class knowledge and understanding of specific inequalities. Included in this pack: Student/Staff booklet *This could be easily adapted to meet the requirements of AQA Sociology for students to research an education topic for their methods in context skills. *You could also adapt this for practicals in Psychology as A Level or GCSE, you would need to change a couple of the evaluation guidance points to cover GRAVEDS for Psychology, and if used for Pearson Edexcel A Level, then it’d need changes to specific methods as per the requirements of the specification for each topic; for example questionnaires for Social, experiments for Cognitive etc.

Quick Revision for GRAVEDS evaluation skills Psychology A Level / GCSE / iAL / IB This set of resources is designed for 5 minute revision guides to the main ideas of GRAVEDS (Generalisability, Reliability, Application, Validity, Ethics, Designs and Sampling) to help students evaluation their core studies across any Psychology course. It is an editable set of PPTs which contains an overview of the features of each component of GRAVEDS and an example of using each skill for a well known psychology study. There is also a word document which can be used as a summary handout for students or printed as a wall display prompt. These are narrated PPTs that last around 5 minutes, so you can just run them with sound as a lesson starter, but you can always delete the narration if you prefer to deliver them during a lesson. The pack contains: 8x PPTs, one each for: G Generalisability quick revision R Reliability quick revision A Application quick revision V Validity (Internal) quick revision V Validity (External) quick revision E Ethics quick revision D Design (experimental research designs) quick revision S Sampling techniques quick revision 1x summary for a wall display or student crib sheet The narrated PPTs can also be accessed as videos on YouTube on ‘SocialScience911’ if you wanted to utilise those for student’s to watch for homework tasks.

Research Methods in Social Psychology A Level and iAL Psychology with a focus on Pearson Edexcel This is a lesson pack that covers the core methods in Social Psychology of Self report data (Interviews and Questionnaires), Thematic Analysis, Sampling Techniques. The resources can be delivered in the classroom, or there are also online recorded lessons to accompany this pack if you wish to set this as homework or independent learning or flipped learning activity. This pack contains: 1 x PPT for teacher delivery 1 x Student workbook consisting of 40 pages (including some maths practice) 2 x Activity answer sheets 2 x recorded lessons for flipped learning on YouTube The recorded lessons can be found on ‘SocialScience911’ on you tube.

Biological Psychology Research Methods Correlation & Brain Scanning A Level and iAL Psychology with a focus on Pearson Edexcel This is a lesson pack that covers the core methods in Biological Psychology of Brain Scanning Techniques and Correlational Research. The resources can be delivered in the classroom, or there are also online recorded lessons to accompany this pack if you wish to set this as homework or independent learning or flipped learning activity. This pack contains: 1 x PPT for teacher delivery 1 x Student workbook consisting of 28 pages (including some maths practice) 3 x Activity answer sheets 2 x Recorded lessons for flipped learning on YouTube The recorded lessons can be found on ‘SocialScience911’ on you tube

STUDIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing a selection of key studies that are commonly used in specifications and/or as supporting evidence for the main theories. This is an editable 16-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. All the content includes the main principles of the study in terms of their aim, procedure, results and conclusions. Studies included are: 1 Bartlett (1932) War of the Ghosts -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to memory inaccuracy 2 Saacchi et al. (2007) Changing history: doctored photographs affect memory for past public events. -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to pretrial publicity 3 Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of auto mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to eyewitness testimony 4 Steyvers and Hemmer (2012) Reconstruction from memory in naturalistic environments. -Reconstructive and Episodic memory -Schema Theory -Application to memory inaccuracy 5 Peterson and Peterson (1959) Short-term Retention of Individual Verbal Items -Multi-store model of memory -Short-term memory duration -Application to rehearsal and interference 6 Bahrick et al. (1975) Fifty years of memory for names and faces: A cross-sectional approach -Multi-store model of memory -Long-term memory duration -Application to forgetting 7 Murdock (1962) The serial position effect of free recall -Multi-store model of memory -Primacy and recency effect -Application to rehearsal and STM/LTM distinction 8 Baddeley (1966b) Working memory model: The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long-term memory for word sequences. -Multi-store model of memory -Encoding in short-term and long-term memory -Application to learning information From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and powerpoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. To match with this I also have a THEORIES OF MEMORY booklet containing the main features of the most common theories and explanations of memory. (If you are looking for AQA GCSE Psychology I have a separate full resource pack available that includes all booklets, handouts and ready made powerpoints).

THEORIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the main features of the most common theories and explanations of memory. This is an editable 42-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. All the content includes the main principles of the theory / explanation and evaluative points. Topics included are: 1 What is cognitive psychology? 2 Encoding 3 Storage 4 Retrieval, recognition, and recall 5 The multi-store model of memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968) 6 The working memory model of short-term memory (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974). 7 Episodic and semantic model of long-term memory (Tulving, 1972). 8 Reconstructive memory and schema theory, (Bartlett, 1932). 9 Brain regions and long-term memory 10 Forgetting: Displacement, context, and interference 11 Memory Inaccuracy From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and powerpoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. To match with this I also have a STUDIES OF MEMORY booklet containing a selection of key studies that are commonly used in specification and/or as supporting evidence for the main theories. (If you are looking for AQA GCSE Psychology I have a separate full resource pack available that includes all booklets, handouts and ready made powerpoints).

ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the a broad overview of the ethical principles involved across psychology research. This is useful for an overview of ethics and developing the understanding of ethical issues as a wider issue and debate in Psychology. This is an editable 20-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. Topics included are: Ethics over time 1 The historical context of ethics when doing research. Ethics in sensitive topics 2 Ethics that may arise as a result of socially sensitive issues include privacy, confidentiality, poor methodology, equitable treatment, and ownership of data. 3 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for participants is explored when considering testing obedience of participants Ethics within specific groups 4 The implications of findings in of studies to inform working practice with vulnerable groups 5 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for participants is explored when considering brain damaged patients. 6 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues of using children in research Ethics when undertaking research 7 The management of ethics in of studies using a variety of methods to ensure codes of practice are maintained for participants. 8 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for animals, is explored when considering the use of animals instead of human participants. From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures.

NATURE NURTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the broad overview of the nature versus nurture debate across psychology. This is useful for an overview of nature versus nurture and developing the understanding of nature versus nurture as a wider issue and debate in Psychology. This is an editable 17-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. Topics included are: 1 What is nature versus nurture? 2 Researching nature and nurture: twin studies 3 Interactionism 4 Topics in the nature nurture debate -Aggression -Memory -Obedience -Gender -Personality 5 Why is nature versus nurture even an issue or debate? 6 Assessing the nature versus nurture debate From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. If you are planning for teaching the wider issues and debates across Psychology, I also have an ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY booklet containing a the main features of ethics used across specifications and/or as ‘dip in content’ to add to sections across the main topics in Psychology.

This resource is a teacher and/or student booklet that covers the AQA GCSE 9-1 Psychology RESEARCH METHODS topic content. Includes: Teacher/student booklet

Full teacher resource pack for the AQA GCSE 9-1 Psychology topic of PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. Full pack of resources includes: Teacher booklet Student booklet All PPTs All activities

Teacher resource pack for MEMORY unit of AQA GCSE 9-1 Psychology. All components of the topic are covered in full in the pack. Includes: Teacher booklet Student booklet All PPTs Student activities

Full teacher resource pack for the AQA GCSE 9-1 topic of LANGUAGE. Includes all the resources you need for the full topic: Teacher booklet Student booklet All PPTs All activities

**Criminal Psychology ** PEARSON EDEXCEL A Level Psychology This is a fully resourced teacher topic pack for the 9PS0/02 Option topic of criminal psychology. The full pack contains: TEACHER master booklet with all the information needed, answers to activities and information to match to the student workbook. This is a fully editable 105-page word document. STUDENT workbook follows alongside the teacher booklet and accompanying powerpoints and activities match the student workbooks. This is a fully editable 118-page word document. POWERPOINTS to deliver lessons that run in order of the student and teacher booklet with actvities and tasks. There are 12 powerpoints for the topic, each picks up on a new section of the content. ACTIVITIES to utilise in lessons that are prompted in the powerpoints and student/teacher booklets. SCHEME OF WORK for the topic and related content. *The selected studies in this pack are: Classic study: Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of auto mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory Contemporary Study & Anger Management Study: Howells et al. (2005) Brief anger management programs with offenders: Outcomes and predictors of change. Biological Treatment Study: Maletzky et al. (2006) A study on the effectiveness of hormone treatment for offenders The Key Question in this pack is : “Is eyewitness testimony reliable?”* If you are switching specification, or are just changing option topics, this pack is a full, off-the-shelf and ready to go teaching pack. From this you can teach as it stands or adapt to your own student needs, make further handouts and update or change the PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures.