LO's: Describe and evaluate two relevant theories in Attachment.
Describe and evaluate supporting studies in attachment
Use relevant terms and concepts relating to developmental psychology
Apply the nature versus nurture debate to your chosen theories
Designed for Level 3 courses.
Student activities embedded throughout the presentation.
The Developmental Area in line with the OCR A level Specification. Part of Unit 2 - Core Studies content.
Powerpoint includes defining principles, explanations of why studies lie within the area as well as strengths & weaknesses.
Studying Developmental Psychology, and more specifically psychologists behind it? We have the revision worksheet for you! It is the perfect revision kit for students. Learn all you need to know about that topic to get top marks!
A revision puzzle for the developmental psychology topic.
Print out the puzzle page with the triangles on students need to cut them out and assemble them matching questions to answers for form a hexagon.
Revision Pack for Developmental Psychology.
This is useful for students taking the new 9-1 specification for Edexcel. It is also useful teachers to use to give to students. It includes practice exam question, worksheet, abreviated learning techniques. Over 30 pages of revision notes and exam style questions.
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This product is for the Developmental section. Please see my free Bandura study for an example.
This product contains 20 specially created studies that can be used to cover the new specification of IB Psychology. It also includes a guide to show which studies can be used to address which questions/topics.
The studies are a mix of classic experiments and newer research. Most studies cannot be found in the course textbooks, giving students the advantage of using studies that the majority of IB students will not be aware of. Those studies that are in the regular textbooks are presented in a simpler, cleaner and more straightforward format.
• There is at least 1 study for each SAQ.
• There are at least 2 studies for each ERQ.
• In some cases, there are more studies, so you have the scope to choose studies which you prefer.
All the studies have been written to be simple and clear for students from an international background who may not have English as their first language. Each study also includes an evaluation section which can be used to help with the critical thinking required for ERQ questions.
Each study has a short text at the top which lists the areas in which the study can be used. This allows for fast cross-referencing. It also has an Abstract which can help when revising so students can quickly review the study. They all also contain helpful or colourful pictures to give students a visual anchor to the study.
Some studies contain 2 or 3 versions of the experiment to allow students to focus on sections they find more interesting.
There are a variety of simple and more complicated studies with the earlier topics leaning towards an easy access approach and later topics having more detail.
Please note:
There is a free version of Bandura’s study available for you to be able to examine as a sample.
There are 5 packs available: Biological, Cognitive, Socio-cultural, Developmental and Human Relationships. Many of the studies are repeated in the other packs. These ‘multi-use’ studies were carefully selected to address as many topics across the whole of the IB course as possible in order to reduce the amount of studies the student is required to learn.
In total, there are 68 individual studies that comprise the whole course, but the amount required by the student to learn can be greatly reduced through selecting appropriate studies using the guides included. Many studies can be used 5 or 6 times, and some can be omitted completely if desired.
This pack contains studies ONLY. It does not contain information on the theories. It does indicate which theories are associated with which study, but the students will need to be aware of the theories in order to properly utilise the studies. All the theories that are specifically required by IB (e.g. schemas, cognitive biases, working memory model) have appropriate studies in this pack.
This work pack can be used as either a means of independent study for this topic, or it can be used in the classroom to support learning.
As there is no official textbook, this can be used to complete any resources used by the teacher. It contains all the information needed for the course as well as various tasks and comprehension activities.
Full lesson including lesson plan, lesson objectives, starter, plenary and differentiated activities. Ideal as an intro to Little Albert, phobias and behavourial/developmental psychology.
Everything needed for the A level OCR Psychology Core Studies paper for developmental psychology. Included is notes on each Bandura's, Chaney et al.'s, Kohlberg's and Lee et al.'s studies, as well as evaluations of each of these and comparisons of them.
Print out the pages back to back. Students fold them in half and use them as a revision aid to help them consolidate their knowledge about the developmental psychology unit.
They are reversible so can be folded the other way as well.
THis work pack contains information pertaining to all the relevant studies in the Developmental unit.
For further information visit my Youtube channel and website at WeLikePsych for further resources and free online self-assessments
This resource is for teachers and students following the Edexcel IAL Curriculum for Psychology. This resource contains revision notes for Unit 3 Developmental Psychology (Theories and Studies).
Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology to help students prepare for their A Level Paper 1, in relation to the Individual Differences and Developmental Psychology topics from all Paper 1 units: Social, cognitive, biological and learning theories. I used these resources over a series of 5 online virtual lessons, two for students to create a summary for individual differences, two for students to create a summary for developmental psychology and one for practicing related exam questions. The tasks could obviously be adapted to be group tasks for face to face teaching. Differentiation provided through structured support sheet and detailed exemplars.
Lesson pack contains:
PowerPoint presentations to support students in reviewing the content and creating their own summaries (x2)
Support sheets to help students summarise the content (x2)
Detailed exemplar grids with all ID and Dev Psych content summarised (x2)
ID/Dev Psych practice exam questions Word Document
Criminal Psychology Topic 6. In line with Unit 3 (Applied Psychology) from the OCR A Level Specification.
Powerpoint includes background, key terms & definitions,discussion tasks, videos, key research summary, additional study summaries and guidance on structure for the evaluate and apply questions within Unit 3 Section B.
Developmental Psychology PowerPoint is a great resource to add to your psychology curriculum. This 32 slide PowerPoint is packed with beautiful graphics, engaging video clips and presenter notes that aid your understanding of each slide. I have used these with my A.P. classes as well as regular psychology classes.
Make it easy on yourself! For these PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans, warmups and Exit Tickets, assessment and more, go to Developmental Psychology Complete Unit Bundled
Topics Include
Child Development
- attachement
- stranger anxiety
- separation anxiety
- contact comfort
- Harry Harlow
- imprinting
- Konrad Lorenz
- Mary Ainsworth
- secure v. insecure attachment
- parenting styles - authoritarian authoritative, permissive
- Jean Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development
- assimilation
- accommodation
- Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral reasoning
Adolescence
- puberty
- primary sex characteristics
- secondary sex characteristics
- prefrontal cortex development
- Erik Erikson’s identity formation
- identity crisis
Adulthood
- early adulthood
- middle adulthood
- late adulthood
- social clock
- marriage
- generativety
- menopause
- senile dementia
- Alzheimer’s
- Elisabeth Kubler’s five stages of grief
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A comprehensive knowledge organiser for all four core studies in the developmental area. Includes key theme, area and evaluation sections. Fully editable.
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Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Psychology and PSHE.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Sander Thomaes who leads GREENTEENS, an international programme investigating how to motivate adolescents to adopt sustainable behaviours.
• This resource also contains an interview with Professor Thomaes. If you or your students have a question for him, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Professor Thomaes will reply!
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Professor Thomaes’ research and challenges them to design their own pro-environment campaign.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
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A trauma-informed approach to looked-after children in schools
Digital Voice in partnership with Gateshead Council’s Virtual School and funded by the Ragdoll Foundation, has produced a new video resource for teachers which aims to better equip them to support young people with developmental trauma.
“Developmental trauma is a term that we use to describe the experiences of young people who have grown up in frightening, neglectful or abusive circumstances. We know that brain development is shaped through our early experiences and particularly relationships with others, so developmental trauma can impact on young people’s cognitive, social and emotional development.”
Aisling Martin, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Gateshead Council
The resource examines the psychological effects of trauma and illustrates them using first hand accounts from care-experienced young people.
“At school I just wasn’t coping. I was a really smart kid. I was top of the class. But it just slowly as I got older, I started falling and falling behind. Because obviously it’s a lot to take in. Trying to figure out all these feelings.”
Participant
Acknowledging that dysregulated pupils can cause teachers themselves to be dysregulated, and therefore react as if they are being threatened, the resource offers techniques and advice as to how teachers might approach young people differently:
“If you can see challenging behaviour as a communication of a need, then your response as a teacher may be better.”
Alex Spiller, Gateshead Virtual School
The animation, “Understanding Developmental Trauma’ is a usable resource for teachers, backed by psychological research and a chance for care-experienced people to share their stories and effect change within the education system.
“The young people’s testimonies within the film are moving and powerful, and participants are to be commended for their honesty and bravery in sharing their stories. The Ragdoll Foundation hopes that the resource achieves its aim of helping teachers and others to understand the context for working with care-experienced children and to learn effective strategies for supporting them in school.”
Katherine Wood, MBE, Chair of the Ragdoll Foundation
Underpinning this important piece of work is a plea to see each person as an individual, a fellow human being in a unique set of circumstances:
“We’re not just the people who spray graffiti or vandalise shops, we’re the people who become teachers. We’re the people who become social workers. We are capable of more than just being naughty kids.”