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): Criminal Psychology
Paper One: Studies and applications in psychology
Covers:
Key Concepts:
• Different types of crime and how crime is measured: official statistics and self-report
Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs:
• i) The Social Learning Theory
• ii) Eysenck’s Criminal Personality Theory
The changing nature of punishment
Key Studies:
• Social Learning Theory Research Study – Cooper and Mackie (1986): Study into video games and aggression in children.
• Criminal Personality Theory Research Study – Heaven (1996): Study into delinquency, extroversion, psychoticism and self-esteem.
Consists of an extensive PPT display (66 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the whole module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, exam style questions, activities to encourage thinking / discussion and links to internet resources
Content aims to be additional to the textbook.
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.
Psychology OCR GCSE (9-1): Social Influence
Paper #2 Applications in Psychology
Covers the specification, including:
• Conformity and majority / minority influence.
• Collective and crowd behaviour
• Obedience including obeying the orders of authority figures.
• The effect of situational factors on behaviours:
• Collective and crowd behaviour and deindividuation
• Culture on behaviour
• Authority figures on obedience
• Situational factors, including the free will/determinism debate.
• The effect of dispositional factors (personality) on behaviours:
• Self-esteem on conformity
• locus of control in crowds and morality on pro-social and anti-social behaviour
• Authoritarian personality on obedience
• Influence of the brain in dispositional factors
• Criticisms of the effect of dispositional factors
APPLICATION
• How minority influence and Majority influence affects social change in attitudes and behaviour towards, increasing awareness of, and reducing mental health stigma and discrimination.
BOTH KEY STUDIES:
Situational Factors Research Study - Bickman (1974)
Dispositional Factors Research Study - NatCen (2011)
Consists of a PPT display (140 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, links to online resources (only for educational use), exam style questions to encourage thinking and a photocopy friendly resources booklet.
The slides are designed to be extra to the textbook. When answering the questions students should use their textbook and supplied resources as well.
Complete coverage of the whole module, just ‘pick up and go’… suitable for both new and experienced teachers
Copying this resource for sharing or personal profit, is against copyright.
CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK IS REALLY APPRECIATED, SO I CAN AMEND AND IMPROVE…. Thanks
The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy CPsychol is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
AQA A-Level Psychology: Year 1 and AS
All you need to present the RESEARCH METHODS MODULE
Included in this package:
Extensive workbook (108 pages) includes explanations, exercises, exam style questions and an MCQ (with answers)
3 separate PPT displays:
One to accompany the workbook (96 slides)
One covering the ‘Binomial Sign Test’… simple rationale, worked examples and exercises
One covering - 'Predicting from correlations'.... advanced evaluations and includes a worksheet exercise
• NB. Introduction to statistical testing: the sign test only appears in the AS specifications (It is covered in the Full A-Level in Year 2)
AS Paper 2 (Psychology in Context) Section C
A-Level Year 1, Paper 2 (Psychology in Context) Section C
Part of the: The ‘pick-up a module and go’ series
Extensive workbook covering every aspect of the specifications for both AS and Year 1 A-Level Psychology:
• Introduction to Research Methods
• Scientific Processes
• Data Handling and analysis
The workbook is crammed with information, self-learn exercises, examination style questions, class practical ideas and an MCQ (with answered supplied).
The main format is PDF (holds format better for printing. However, feel free to edit or amend the document to suit your needs)
The workbook can be used by students for self-learning or as a class teaching aid in conjunction with the PPT's
Also in the pipeline are versions tailored to suit all the specifications (OCR, EDEXCEL and EDUQAS)
The author, Andy McCarthy is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher
OCR GCSE Psychology (9-1): Development
Paper One: Studies and applications in psychology
Covers:
Stages of development; pre-natal; childhood; adolescence; and adulthood
The development of brain structures and functions; the nervous system; neurons; synapses; and their interaction in development of the brain
IQ tests as a measure of intelligence.
Theories/Explanations
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
The Role of Learning on Development –
Dweck’s Mindset Theory
Willingham’s Learning Theory
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development:
The four invariant stages of development: sensori-motor; pre-operational; concrete-operational; formal operational assimilation and accommodation
The concepts of object permanence; animism; and egocentrism
The processes of decentration; reversibility; and conservation
Criticisms of the theory including the reductionism/holism debate.
Cognitive Development Research Study – Piaget (1952): Study into the conservation of number.
Learning theories of development:
Dweck’s ideas on fixed and growth mindsets
Dweck’s ideas on praise for effort
Willingham’s ideas on the myth of learning styles
Willingham’s ideas on the importance of meaning for learning
Criticisms of learning theories including the nature/nurture debate
Learning Research Study – Blackwell et al. (2007): study into fixed and growth mindsets.
Application: The changing role of education
How Piaget’s ideas have been applied to education through the use of key stages, readiness, active learning and the concept of intelligence
How learning theories apply to the development of education and intelligence through growth mindsets and teaching through meaning not learning styles
Consists of an extensive PPT display (120 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has teaching comments where suitable, exam style questions, activities to encourage thinking and links to resources.
Content aims to be additional to the textbook.
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.
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.
I HAVE USED THIS RESOURCE IN THE CLASSROOM
Copying this resource for sharing or personal profit, is against copyright.
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.
OCR GCSE Psychology (9-1): Psychological Problems
Paper One: Studies and applications in psychology
Covers:
An introduction to mental health
Schizophrenia
Clinical depression
.
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.
I HAVE USED THIS RESOURCE IN THE CLASSROOM
Copying this resource for sharing or personal profit, is against copyright.
IF YOU PURCHASE THIS RESOURCE, FEEDBACK IS REALLY APPRECIATED AND HELPS ME TO AMEND AND IMPROVE (YOU AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE UPDATES) …. Thanks
The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy (amac education: Psychology) is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
Psychology OCR GCSE (9-1): SLEEP AND DREAMING
Paper #2 Applications in Psychology
Comprehensive coverage of the specification, including:
• The functions, features and benefits of sleep: healthy brain; physical repair; emotional stability; stages of the sleep cycle and when dreaming occurs; the role of the pineal gland and melatonin
• The causes of sleep disorders: sleep onset and sleep maintenance insomnia
• Endogenous pacemakers; and exogenous zeitgebers; and their role in sleep.
Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming /The Freudian Theory of Dreaming /The Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreaming
KEY STUDY: The Freudian Theory of Dreaming Research Study – Freud (1918): Dream analysis study of ‘The Wolfman’.
• The Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreaming:
• The role of REM sleep • the function and actions of the brain during sleep, including the limbic system • activity of neurons in the pons during sleep • the process of synthesis as a function of the cerebral cortex • criticisms of the theory including the reductionism/holism debate.
The Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreaming Research Study Differences in actions and functions of the brain when dreaming and when awake –
KEY STUDY: Williams et al. (1992): Study into Bizarreness in Dreams and Fantasies: Implications for the Activation Synthesis Hypothesis.
Application Development of treatments for insomnia
• Features of insomnia, the role of the nervous system and its management through relaxation techniques and the role of the physical environment in insomnia and its treatment through improved sleep hygiene
• The impact of neurological damage to the hypothalamus on sleep.
Consists of a PPT display (81 slides) giving clear and full coverage of the module.
The presentation has links to online resources (only for educational use), class exercises and think about tasks.
Complete coverage of the whole module, just ‘pick up and go’… suitable for both new and experienced teachers
Copying this resource for sharing or personal profit, is against copyright.
CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK IS REALLY APPRECIATED, SO I CAN AMEND AND IMPROVE…. Thanks
The experienced author:
Andy McCarthy CPsychol is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.
A-Level Psychology: RESEARCH METHODS, PPT DISPLAY & WORKBOOK (Suitable for all examination boards)
• Also, included in this package is a separate PPT display covering the ‘Binomial Sign Test’… simple rationale, worked examples and exercises
Part of the: The ‘pick-up a module and go’ series
Extensive ppt display (92 slides) and workbook (108 pages) covers every aspect of the specifications for A-Level Psychology:
• Introduction to Research Methods
• Scientific Processes
• Data Handling and analysis
The workbook is crammed with information, self-learn exercises, examination style questions, class practical ideas and an MCQ (with answered supplied).
The main format of the workbook is PDF (holds format better for printing). The workbook can be used by students for self-learning, printed in section as worksheets or as a whole class teaching aid.
Please note, also available from my TES Shop:
• A separate bundle aimed specifically at Research Methods for AQA A-Level Psychology
• A bundle suitable for all examination boards, covering the required statistical tests and standard deviation (including t-tests, Chi-Square etc) and evaluating correlations (including the advanced issue: Can you predict from a correlation?)
• Maths4Psych, suitable for all examination boards and covers all the OFQUAL requirements for pre-tertiary psychology students
The author, Andy McCarthy is a Chartered Psychologist, Member of the Royal Society of Statisticians, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher