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)
An Introductory Lesson/s for Psychology (suitable for all examination boards). Part of the ‘Topics@Psychology Series’ #1
Designed for recruiting Year Eleven students to psychology or an introductory lesson or two for new Year Twelve Psychology students.
Consists of a PPT display (69 slides) and a template to make ‘The Magic Dragon Illusion’
Suitable for ALL examination boards.
Covers a wide range of interesting topics including: what is psychology (and what it is not), approaches, how well do you know your brain, visual illusions and lots of counter intuitive insights into human behaviour.
Where appropriate notes and links are included off screen on bottom of slides.
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
More to come in this series soon. Any requests, visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Topics@Psychology#5: A shocking truth about perception
An Introduction to understanding a neuroscientific evaluation of the reliability of our perception (the external environment as constructed within our levels of consciousness and states of awareness).
The PPT slides progressively covers our modalities (senses) and destroys much of what we believe and supports the argument that we cannot be sure anything really exists outside of our neural networks.
Areas covered include: Synesthesia, does sound exist and The Matrixication of Reality (McCarthy and Lech, 2011)… This paper is uploaded as a free resource
Consists of a PPT display (45 slides) with under slide comments linking to online videos; to supplement understanding. Within the slides are activities and things to think about.
The final slide has links to various internet resources
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce the display to suit your needs.
The author, Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Visit my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625558624273452/
OCR A-Level Psychology. Revision Bites. Section B, Option 1. Child Psychology (paper 3, option) #4 Intelligence (biological)
PPT presentation (16 slides), covers the following in a clear and uncomplicated way:
What is intelligence?
Biological factors which could affect intelligence
Key Study: A TWIN-FAMILY STUDY OF GENERAL IQ VAN LEEUWEN, M., VAN DEN BERG, S. M. & BOOMSMA, D. (2008)
Application: What is intelligence and one method of assessing intelligence
Examination style questions
Constructive feed back is always appreciated, so I can amend and improve
The author, Andy McCarthy is a chartered psychologist, publicist and an experienced teacher and university lecturer.
Thank You
OCR GCSE Psychology (9-1): Memory
Application in Psychology Paper #2**
Covers:
• What is Cognitive Psychology?
• What is Memory?
• Types of memory (LTM)
• The Multi-Store Model of Memory
• Theories of forgetting (STM & LTM)
• Theory of Reconstructive Memory
• Amnesia, Brain scanning and Neuropsychology
Covers all three key studies
• Weblinks to key studies / Exam style Q’s
Consists of a PPT display (75 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, links to online resources (only for educational use) and exam style questions to encourage thinking.
Complete coverage of memory, 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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IF YOU PURCHASE THIS RESOURCE, FEEDBACK IS REALLY APPRECIATED AND HELPS ME TO AMEND AND IMPROVE…. Thanks
The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
AQA A-Level Psychology
Workbook
Self-Learn / Final Revision: Psychology in Context: Biopsychology (Section B - Paper Two)
12 pages, designed for students to use existing knowledge, notes and textbook to complete (minimal teacher input)
Ideal final preparation for the second examination
Includes assess knowledge questions and examination style questions
Can be downloaded in both formats (word or pdf)
Leave feedback, browse my shop and good luck with the exams
Thanks
Andy Mac
AQA, Psychology A-Level Exams, suggested focus for revision: papers 2 and 3
Focus rather than predictions based on previous questions
Have included focus for paper 1, so you can assess how useful
Free Resource, please leave feedback and browse shop
Thanks Andy Mac
A-Level Psychology
Some thoughts on improving how you tackle thinking (application) questions, essay writing and general examination questions.
Includes:
1st Document
Paragraph openers
Within-paragraph connectives
How to tackle a thinking question (application)
The 12 golden rules of ‘well’ [sic] good writing
2nd Document
Guide to writing a UCAS Personal Statement
How to structure and what you should include in four paragraphs
If you like this product please review and then browse the rest of my products
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Andy
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Inter-rater reliability, a fun classroom activity and worksheet
Free resource contains a ppt display and related workbook
Make inter-rater reliability fun and understandable
All photos are mine or CC licensed (you can change and use your own!!!)
If you like this activity, please leave feedback and look at more of my resources for teaching psychology (all examination boards)
Thanks Andy
Research Methods Workbook: Variables and Hypotheses for A-Level Psychology
18 pages packed with information and activities
FREE resource, so please leave feedback and do browse my store
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Andy Mac
A-Level Psychology Workbook Frequency Tables, Descriptive Tables and Graphs/Charts
what, how and why?
explanations and practice examination questions
suitable for all examination boards
I have uploaded this resource as a word file and a PDF file (PDF maintains the formatting better)
if you like this FREE resource, please leave feedback and browse my shop
thanks Andy Mac
Workbook for potential calculations, Research Methods, A-Level Psychology Exams
Covers:
Significant Number
Ratio and Percentage
Standard Deviation
Sign Test
Chi-Square
(There are worksheets already for Central Tendency and Range)
Available as word document or PDF (holds format better)
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Andy Mac