Friday Afternoon Psychology A-Level Resource Pack (+CD)

Summary:
Friday Afternoon Psychology is packed with many fun and engaging revision activities. The activities have been chosen to allow students to apply their knowledge using a variety of learning styles, and to review and reinforce their understanding of key terms and concepts. They include a host of popular games like bingo, dominoes and a range of card games. These enjoyable activities make revision exercises fun and can be used at any point within a lesson. The pack is fully photocopiable and once the teacher has a set of cards prepared they can be used over and over with all groups, bringing variety and fun to any revision session. The free CD-ROM provides a PDF version of the pack for easy printing. Also included in the pack: a specification matching chart to allow easy integration into any course, answers, suggested timings and teaching notes.

• Provides a range of enjoyable and engaging activities to develop learning styles and reinforce knowledge and understanding of key concepts
  

• Activities can be adapted for individual, paired or group work
  

• Activities can be used flexibly in revision sessions or throughout the course
  

Table of Contents:
1 Non-experimental methods and techniques
Bingo: Self-report methods
Matching: Observational research
Matching: Self-reported data
Triominoes: Correlational research
Triominoes: The case-study method
Yes/No/Why?: Correlation
2 Experimental methods and designs
Bingo: An experimental hypothesis
Bingo: Laboratory experiments
Data response: Identifying experimental
methods and statistical analyses
Triominoes: Experimental designs
Triominoes: Experimental methods
3 Identifying aspects of research
Converting: Hunch to hypothesis
Matching: Samples
Missing words: Biases in research
Ranking: The research process
Stepping stones: The research process
4 Approaches and perspectives
Bingo: The psychodynamic approach
Bingo: The social approach
Matching: The behaviourist approach
Matching: The cognitive approach
Matching: The individual differences/
abnormal approach
Spotlight: The developmental approach
Spotlight: The physiological approach
5 Issues in psychology
Critical thinking: Ethics
Prompting: Usefulness
Ranking: Reliability and validity
Ranking: The nature/nurture debate
Sorting: Qualitative and quantitative data
6 Statistical terminology
Bingo: Basic statistical terms
Bingo: Further statistical terms
Matching: Data display
Play your cards right: Choosing statistical tests
Play your cards right: Defining data