This resource contains everything you need to deliver Topic 6 of the Criminal Psychology option on the OCR A-Level Psychology Specification. The lesson is presented on a plain background, for easy adaptation. It contains starters and activities for the background and application of the topic, and ends on a homework suggestion. It also contains a worksheet for the key research ensuring students have a detailed understanding of this. This can be purchased as part of a bundle with the other 5 Topics within this Option. This is delivered alongside the Oxford Press textbook.

This is a complete activity for testing Matching Hypothesis. It is a chance for students to take the lead on some actual psychological research and better understand the ideas behind matching hypothesis. In groups students must choose and experimenter. They ask everyone else to rate the attractiveness of the photos on the 'Photo Rating Survey' and record this in the table on the 'Rating Tables' sheet. A score of 1-10 should be agreed in the group. Using simply maths of averages the experimenter then calculates if the 'real couples' are more or less closely rated on attractiveness than the 'posed couples'. The calculation is explained at the end of the 'Rating Tables' sheet.

A set of tasks students can work through, with the help of a text book, lesson or journal article, to understand the details of the Raine et al Research

A summary of key sampling methods used in social sciences

This resource contains everything you need to deliver Topic 1 of the Criminal Psychology option on the OCR A-Level Psychology Specification. The lesson is presented on a plain background, for easy adaptation. It contains starters and activities for the background and application of the topic, and ends on a homework suggestion. It also contains a worksheet for the key research ensuring students have a detailed understanding of this. This can be purchased as part of a bundle with the other 5 Topics within this Option. This is delivered alongside the Oxford Press textbook.

A set of tasks students can work through, with the help of a text book, lesson or journal article, to understand the details of the Zimbardo Research

Flow diagrams summarising the Oedipus and Electra Complex

A quick revision activity asking students to place each of the core studies along a scale for each debate. I extend this by getting them to justify their answers and have a class discussion where students may have come to different conclusions. Finally we use this to build exam style answers

Students can often become confused by some of the Sperry findings, using this table alongside teaching the methodology allows students to breakdown the procedure, using their knowledge predict findings and compare this to the actual findings from Sperry. Comparing the predictions of students to the actual findings also gives teachers a chance to assess how well students understand the background and procedure of the study

A timeline activity looking at the major changes in how we view Mental Illness over time. Completed as an A3 sheet will make this useful for students revision. Completing this using textbooks, the internet and the BBC Documentary, History of a Madhouse

A detailed breakdown of how to calculate a correlational relationship using Spearman's Rho which a breakdown of what your results mean at each stage

An activity sheet looking at Measures of Dispersion etc. A useful activity for A-Level Psychology students who need to recap some of their GCSE Maths. Students can usually work in groups and complete the sheet with little intervention, but this also highlights any areas that will need revisiting as a class

A table summarising they key behaviours of Little Hans in the Freud research, as well as how this was interpreted using the psychodynamic perspective and a chance for students to consider how other approaches might explain this behaviour

A detailed breakdown for students to use to help them use Critical Values tables. This is applicable for all of the inferential statistics required for the OCR Psychology Specification

This homework includes a link to BBC Radio 4's mindchangers, looking at the Rosenhan study and includes questions students should consider while listening to the show

This resource contains everything you need to deliver Topic 6 of the Sport and Exercise Psychology option on the OCR A-Level Psychology Specification. The lesson is presented on a plain background, for easy adaptation. It contains starters and activities for the background and application of the topic, and ends on a homework suggestion. It also contains a worksheet for the key research ensuring students have a detailed understanding of this. This can be purchased as part of a bundle with the other 5 Topics within this Option. This is delivered alongside the Oxford Press textbook.

This resource contains everything you need to deliver Topic 5 of the Sport and Exercise Psychology option on the OCR A-Level Psychology Specification. The lesson is presented on a plain background, for easy adaptation. It contains starters and activities for the background and application of the topic, and ends on a homework suggestion. It also contains a worksheet for the key research ensuring students have a detailed understanding of this. This can be purchased as part of a bundle with the other 5 Topics within this Option. This is delivered alongside the Oxford Press textbook.

A set of tasks students can work through, with the help of a text book, lesson or journal article, to understand the details of the Fazey and Hardy Research

A set of tasks students can work through, with the help of a text book, lesson or journal article, to understand the details of the Lewis et al Research

An A3 sheet giving students space to include all of the background, research and application of each Applied Psychology topic. Focus on evaluation elements of the specification