LESSONS

PLANNING

• 7 MEMORY Students gain experience of designing a psychological investigation into memory.
• 9 CONCENTRATION Students improve their understanding of the dependent and independent variables in an investigation.
• 11 ORAL AND MOTOR Students learn how to establish a base-line in oral and motor performance tests.
• 13 LEARNING This worksheet looks at the process of data collection during multiple trials in an investigation.
• 15 ETHICAL ISSUES Students explore the importance of ethical issues, and the constraints they impose on the limits of an investigation.
• 17 CONTROL GROUP Students work with the concept of a control group in an investigation.
• 19 SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR The basics of social learning are considered.
• 21 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Conformity, obedience and bystander intervention are the key concepts explored by this lesson plan.

OBTAINING RESULTS

• 23 INVESTIGATION IN CONTEXT Students practise extracting, manipulating and interpreting information from a reference text.
• 25 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1 This worksheet offers activities to encourage students to relate personal experiences to the ideas of Piaget.
• 27 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2 The difference between concrete operational thought and formal operational thought is explored in a variety of activities.
• 29 SEEING THINGS This worksheet encourages students to understand different types of memory.
• 31 VARIABLES This lesson plan looks at the variables that can exist in an investigation environment.
• 33 BEHAVIOURISM 1 Real-life applications of behavioural learning theory are explored and considered.
• 35 BEHAVIOURISM 2 Students relate the principles of behavioural learning to practical problems.

EVALUATION

• 37 ANALYSING DATA Students practise methodologies for analysing data critically.
• 39 HYPOTHESES The formulation of hypotheses and null hypotheses is the core work on this worksheet.
• 41 E-VALUE-ATION Students are encouraged to look at how to assess the value of an investigation.
• 43 NATURE VS NURTURE Students consider both sides of this important argument and produce oral and written assessments.
• 45 PERCEPTION 1 Theories of perception investigated.
• 47 PERCEPTION 2 This worksheet aims to give students an understanding of the perceptual set.
• 49 PSYCHOLOGY OF MEMORY 1 Key concepts of memory investigated.
• 51 PSYCHOLOGY OF MEMORY 2 Students learn to distinguish between long- and short-term memory.

REVIEWING

• 53 SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 Students identify weaknesses in their knowledge and practise ways to improve their grasp of psychology as a subject for study.
• 55 SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS 2 This lesson plan extends the range of the work begun on the previous one.
• 57 LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 This lesson plan focuses students onto the skills they need to read, comprehend, consider, plan and execute a written response to deeper questions about psychology.
• 59 CRITICAL ASSESSMENT Students look at how to formulate positive and negative criticism of psychological research.
• 61 USING DATA Different ways to present data are investigated.

APPENDICES

• 62 for ORAL AND MOTOR
• 63 for CONTROL GROUP
• 64 for ANALYSING DATA