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): Psychological Problems
Paper One: Studies and applications in psychology
Covers:
An introduction to mental health
Schizophrenia
Clinical depression
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Development of treatments
…and the two key studies:
Daniel, D. G., Weinberger, D. R., Jones, D. W., et al. (1991) “The effect of amphetamine on regional cerebral blood flow during cognitive activation in Schizophrenia.
” TANDOC Jr, E. C., FERRUCCI, P. AND DUFFY, M (2015) Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is Facebooking depressing?
Consists of an extensive PPT display (143 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, exam style questions and activities to encourage thinking.
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.
AQA GCSE Psychology Memory, Remote Learning Pack
Consists of a two self-learning or directed remote learning workbooks (+ info on core studies), two sets of model answers and 2 x PPT display (59 slides and 21 slides), one covers main topics and one for classroom experiments (x 3 experiments) plus a worksheet (2 pages) for Godden and Baddeley (context dependency). PPT’s include under slide teaching comments, on-slide exercises/questions to supplement understanding and activities to encourage thinking.
Covers:
Processes of memory
• What is memory in terms of cognitive psychology
• Types of memory: episodic, semantic & procedural
• Memory processes: encoding, retrieval & storage
Structure of memory
• Coding (aka: Encoding), Capacity & Duration (STM & LTM Stores)
• The Multi-Store Model (STM & LTM)
• Primary & Recency Effects (Serial Recall)
• Serial Position Curve (Murdoch)
Memory as an active process
• Reconstructive Memory
• War of the Ghosts (Bartlett)
• Accuracy of Memory (Factors: Interference, Context & False Memories)
Complete coverage of the whole memory module, just ‘pick up a remote learning pack’ and go… suitable for remote teaching , self-learning at home, classroom teaching and suitable for both new and experienced teachers to deliver.
My favoured method for remote teaching, students have copies of workbooks, you connect via your favoured social media platform and you use the answer sheets and PowerPoint to teach.
You are welcome to amend, expand or reduce to suit your needs.
PART OF A ‘REMOTE LEARNING SERIES’ FOR AQA GCSE PSYCHOLOGY… MORE TO FOLLOW VERY SOON
Constructive feedback is always welcomed, so I can improve resources…. Thanks
The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
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Workbooks x9, A-Level Psychology, preparation for Research Methods Paper 2, 2023
Pack includes:
Topic to revise: Predictions for Approaches and Bio-psychology; plus areas of research methods worth knowing eg. Paradigms
Estimating the strength of a correlation, worksheet
Harvard Referencing, worksheet
Potential calculations in an exam (SD, Sign Test etc), workbook
Types 1 and 2 Errors, information sheet
Advanced Research Methods, workbook (covering areas such as: which and why, statistical tests, using critical value tables, sections of a laboratory report etc)
How to design a research study
Paradigms and paradigm shifts
Bio-psychology: Brain Plasticity and Functional Recovery
Covers most of the areas students struggle with, in simple, understandable formats,
Good Luck
Andy
HOW TO WRITE A GOOD UCAS PERSONAL STATEMENT, GUIDE + EXAMPLES
PRINTABLE GUIDE IS 3 PAGES AND TWO EXAMPLE STATEMENTS AND YOU GET COPIES IN BOTH WORD AND PDF FORMATS
I AM A RETIRED LECTURER (25 YEARS) AND HAVE SEEN MANY GOOD AND MANY POOR PERSONAL STATEMENTS.
THE PERSONAL STATEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT. IT IS ALL THE UNIVERSITY KNOWS ABOUT YOU AS A PERSON AND CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHEN OFFERING PLACES.
THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK
ANDY MAC CPsychol