Psychology - Year 9
Week Beginning - 1st June
What I will be learning about - Mental Health
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Define mental health, describe what people with good mental health are able to do compared to those with poor mental health. Explain the difference between sadness and depression.
Resources I will need to use
Internet, the report template
PowerPoint or Word
or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 18th May
What I will be learning about - Perception research from the specification by Gilchrist & Nesburg and Bruner & Minturn.
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Describe the method used by Gilchrist & Nesburg. Explain what their results mean and how they can be applied to real life situation.
Describe the method used by Bruner & Minturn. Explain their results and comment on the ecological validity.
Resources I will need to use
Internet
PowerPoint or Word
or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 11th May
What I will be learning about - Perception – visual illusions
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Describe the Müller-Lyre, Ponzo, Necker cube and Kanizsa triangle illusions. Find examples of each and an explanation of why our eyes are tricked. Find explanations from TV/film where visual illusions have been used.
Resources I will need to use
Internet
PowerPoint or Word
or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 4th May
What I will be learning about - Memory researchers: Loftus, Miller, Ebbinghaus and Craik & Lockhart
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Briefly explain what impact these researchers had on our understanding of memory. For Loftus and Craik & Lockhart, describe they key study briefly.
Resources I will need to use
Internet
PowerPoint or Word
or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 27th April
What I will be learning about - Memory research from the specification by Murdock and Bartlett.
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Describe the method of the study on memory stores and what the primacy and recency effect are.
Describe the method of the study on reconstructive memory.
Resources I will need to use
Internet
PowerPoint or Word
or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 20th April
What I will be learning about - Early psychologists; Freud, Pavlov and Skinner.
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Explain who each of these psychologists were and what their contributions were to psychology and the understanding of human behaviour.
Resources I will need to use
Internet PowerPoint or Word or paper and a camera.
Week Beginning - 14th April
What I will be learning about - Classic studies of Milgram and Rosenhan.
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Describe the method that was used in both classic studies and explain why these studies are important to psychology in general.
Resources I will need to use
Internet PowerPoint or Word or paper and a camera.
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