key words for GCSE and A-level research methods

I split the spec into the different units and made a checklist for students use. They can either tick as they move through the course or use it at the end of AS to help inform their revision or if they have missed lessons. Also useful to help inform teacher planning. Feel free to download- please leave a review if you found it useful/time saving.

Lesson looking at the social and dispositional factors influencing obedience (Agency , Authority, Culture, Proximity, Adorno’s theory of “Authoritarian Personality”) . Approx 120 - 150 min worth of material. Designed for high ability Y9 psychology students studying the new AQA specification. - Links to videos in notes, includes wordsearch.

The lesson goes through the social and dispositional factors in relation to crowd and collective behaviour. Desgined for high ability Y9 GCSE psychology students following the AQA new specification. Students will need internet access to find their locus of control (could be done as HW). The lesson ends with watching the film "suffragette" and creating a newspaper article. Approx - 90 min worth of lesson. Link to full version of suffragette on youtube in notes section at the end (but I bought the DVD)

A short lesson going through the difference between aim and hypothesis.

For AS psychology students (research methods). Lesson on experimental design (repeated measures, matched pairs, independent groups). Students complete table with information provided by powerpoint - this can be done as a carousel activity). - includes crossword as plenary (requires knowledge of aims and hypothesis etc). Can easily be differentiated for GCSE.

Created for new specification AQA psychology. Lesson goes through the social and dispositional factors influencing prosocial behaviour and bystander intervention. Application activity for students to apply their knowledge to scenarios. Students can then write a report on the murder of kitty Genovese addressing the factors covered. *One activity requires the Old gcse psychology textbook but this can be missed. Approx - 60 min lesson. Although planning and writing the newspaper article could also be another 60 min.

Lesson goes through the factors that influence conformity. Starts by looking at Asch's study. Students then complete a carousel activity to address the social and dispositional factors influencing conformity. Lesson ends with application question. Made for high ability Y9 psychology following new AQA GCSE specification. Approx 60 min worth of content

I made these questions myself as a way of assessing the students learning at the end of the memory topic. There is no mark scheme.

THIS IS NOT A LESSON. These are the resources I printed in colour and displayed with the suffragette newspapers to end the social influence unit.

Lesson for AS psychology students on standard deviation. Includes mini-plenaries and students rate themselves to direct whether they complete past exam question (AQA A Spec) or watch consolidation video.

Powerpoint slides going through the main features of the cognitive and biological approach and Wundt's contribution to psychology. These were made for last revision - lecture style lessons. They would make good starting points when planning lessons as most of the content is on there. You would need to add little activities/mini plenaries or video clips etc, and evaluation will need to be added in more detail if these were to become full lessons

Lesson 6- Ethics, Introduces students to the code of ethics and the ethical issues In psychology and how to overcome. Watch video of Derren Brown and apply concepts of harm, deception etc

Lesson 3 (possibly 4 depending on ability) introduces students to repeated measures, matched pairs, and independent groups with evaluation. Can be done teacher lead or print off slides and students move around the room and make notes/experts on a table style activity where they teach others the design they have been given. Mini whiteboard quiz at the end,

For Y12 and Y13 psychology students. A step by step worksheet on conducting the sign test within research methods. Use in combination with the powerpoint to guide students on the criteria needed to conduct the sign test, calculating the sign value and writing whether the results are significant enough. Also includes practice questions to apply knowledge at the end (approx 1h 30 worth of material). Excellent for non-specialists.

Lesson 3: Lesson looks into Lorenz's research into geese and imprinting and Harlow's research into deprivation and contact comfort. Evaluation activity with teacher answers and mini-whiteboard plenary to check progress.

Y12 or Y13 revision. First lesson into attachment. Lesson looks at the differences between reciprocity and interactional synchrony with evaluation exercise.

Lesson 2 -Lesson introduces MSM and features (capacity/duration) with mini experiment. Murdock's serial position effect study - students read and answer comprehension questions - challenge sheet for high ability students. Application questions to test knowledge and dominoes for plenary (if your students have completed the memory topic).

Lesson 2: Introduces students to the nature of experimental methods, then students complete a carousel activity on the different types of experiments (Lab, field, natural).

AQA Psychology, GCSE (new spec) - Lesson goes through types of observations, overt and covert, participant and non-participant, as well as categories of behaviour and establishing inter-observer reliability. Application to video clip - secret life of 5 year olds. Option for students to research famous observational studies if you have access to computers, or could be set as homework. My GCSE students enjoyed this lesson. This lesson can also be used to revise A-Level (just need to add event and time sampling). Approx 60-100 min.