Christmas Task inspired by a cheeky elf who likes to visit! Students will be tasked with designing a scene for the elf to be discovered in. The scene must be based on a core study and have a purpose of getting the children to do something (such as tidying their room). The rationale behind the scene must be explained next to their design. I have given 6 suggestions (Milgram, Piliavin, Bandura, Kohlberg, Loftus & Palmer and Moray) but any study may work. I’ve also added an example of a design inspired by Chaney’s study. Great activity as an end of term treat for students in line with Unit 2 of the OCR A Level Psychology course. Helps with creativity needed in applying research for suggestions in unit 2 section C and unit 3 section B.

Task to introduce reconstructive memory prior to learning Loftus and Palmer’s study. In line with Unit 2 (Core Studies) of the OCR A Level Psychology specification. Students are given a story to read and asked questions one week later. Half the students get extra information from another point of view, to see if this changes their answers in the memory test to promote discussion on believing rumours and taking this into our memories. Powerpoint and worksheets included.

AI Core Study Quiz - Relevant to OCR A level Psychology Unit 2. I put the titles of all 20 core studies into an AI image generator and made it into this quiz. Good take home point of not using AI as it’s rubbish and plagiarism. Extension task to get students adding lots of detail to prompts to get better images out of the AI image generators.

Child Psychology Topic 6. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, videos, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Child Psychology Topic 5. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, videos, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Child Psychology Topic 4. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, videos, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Child Psychology Topic 3. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, videos, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Child Psychology Topic 2. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, videos, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.

Child Psychology Topic 1. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification. Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B. Also gets students drawing a person before going into the ‘draw a person’ test.

Powerpoint for introduction to unit 3 (Applied Psychology) of the OCR A level Psychology course. Powerpoint includes starter askings tudents to recap things from unit 1 and 2, recap of the 3 exams, similarities and differences between unit 2 and 3 as well as an overview of the unit topics/options.

Levine pre-reading task in line with the OCR A level psychology specification (unit 2). Students are required to read and watch information from The Human Empathy Project before picking a country from Levine’s sample, doing research on how their culture’s values may influence kindness plus predict the result from that country. I tuned this into a contest by handing out rewards to the 3 closest students in each class. Gets students engaging in the core study’s focus of culture influencing helpfulness.

Core Studies Island Challenge in line with unit 2 of the OCR A level psychology specification. Students are given the task to defend their core study from being banished from the island and choose to attack another core study researcher (using evaluation of course!). Slide includes set up, task guidance and criteria. Great way to revise unit 2 and evaluating/discussing skills.

Guidance for the smaller questions from Unit 1 Section B (Research Methods) from the OCR A level psychology specification. Slides include guidance on hypotheses, aims, open/closed questions, evaluate and strength/weakness questions. Slides include structure and example answers as well as hints and tips using the 2023 unit 1 paper as a guide.

Unit 3 section A (Issues in Mental Health) question guidance in line with the OCR A level psychology specification. Powerpoint outlines structure of the unit 3 paper, hints & tips (such as timings), example questions with structure guidance, other questions to try and help with command verbs.

Guidance for unit 2 section C (Core Studies) of the OCR A Level Psychology Specification. Talks through likely questions with structure guidance and example answers. Uses the 2023 paper as guide with hints and tips along the way.

Personal Experience Record activity in line with Unit 1 section B (Research Methods) of the OCR Psychology A level specification. Students are given background on when they’ll be asked to refer to personal experience (including an example question) as well as given guidance on what to make a note of. Right hand slide of the task left blank for teachers to add the practicals they have completed/set for their class.

Activity in line with Unit 2 (Core Studies) of the OCR A level Psychology Specification. Students are asked to list the 20 core studies in terms of sample sizes. Clarity given for a few studies where sample sizes are ambiguous/multiple studies are conducted. Answers included at the end. Really got my students thinking! Great revision activity before exams.

Unit 3 section B guidance in line with the OCR A level Psychology Specification. Powerpoint outlines the structure of the exam, question formats, suggested structures, example paragraphs/answers and overall hints/tips for the paper.