Lesson 1-3  our very first session!

My goodness me what a massive lesson 🙂 Didn’t we all do well?? You guys were magnificent 🙂

We covered a great deal today. Hopefully you are now following this blog (become a follower by putting in your school email in the follow button).

I hope you have found the Psychology folder in your shared student drive.

DO read the student handbook – you will see it includes links to both digital text books and both year 12 and 13 blogs.

DO look around and start exploring the specification, ethical guidelines for 2018 etc.

For ETHICS think DDRIPP into the big C of competence. See >>>> Ethics DRIPP sheet -I will check your memory for this soon!

Having explored the shared area, we recapped levels of data (measurement) ‘NOIR’ -we linked each level with the appropriate measure of central tendency (Mode, Mean and Median).

We then started to think about they year 2 course and the importance of pre-reading and consolidation reading – you are really encouraged to develop yourself as an effective learner. My job is to help you become ready for university and future careers. I aim to help you become self-sufficient and confident in your own ability to learn. You might want to print the learning poster and put in it your file.

In order to recap the approaches we read a poem about some blind men and an elephant! Each approach in psychology views the issue slightly differently but to fully understand anything an INTERACTIVE APPROACH is best 🙂

Prep:

Your assignment >>>>> Marketing approaches task

Due Wednesday 12th September – during this  double session you will be marketing your approach to your classmates – we will watch your film clips and smile a lot 🙂

Lesson 4-5

We started the lesson listening to KADY Lang singing ‘Constant Craving’.

As students I know you are constantly craving better grades 🙂

To achieve this you will need to actively engage with the questions you are asked. This means really thinking about how you can use your knowledge to answer the question.

Knowledge (AO1) is of course important, but the ‘A’ level examiner assumes you have some knowledge, after-all, you will have been studying the course for 2 years by the time you sit the exam. BUT nowadays we can easily get knowledge from google! So do not try to become an encyclopedia. This is not how to get an A/A* grade.

The key to exam success is being able to APPLY (AO2) the knowledge you do have in an intelligent and thoughtful way.

Next you should be able to critically evaluate the points you are making. This is what we mean by intelligent discussion (AO3). A discussion is like a written argument where you are writing down different points of view.

To reach the top mark band your answer must make sense. It needs to be coherent. How you use the English LANGuage to express yourself is really important.

REMEMBER   ‘KADY LANG’

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Next we played a scrabble game to get you thinking about the psychological terms we discussed last lesson.

You then designed a “terrible student” – obviously your goal this year is to be the complete opposite of poor Trisha!!

But WHY was Trisha such a weak student? You used the 5 approaches to explain her poor behaviour. This was an opportunity to recall your knowledge of the approaches and to apply your understanding to explain Trisha’s behaviour.

To revisit the Psychodynamic approach you played triominoes and then you matched different characters to Freud’s tripartitie personality.

PREP

As well as the marketing campaign task, I would like you to pre-read the double page spread on idiographic and nomethetic explanations. This is one of the issues and debates we need to become familiar with this year. Use the digital text book. I want you to do more than just read the material. There are videos to watch, key words to learn, a multi choice quiz, and Apply it questions to attempt.

IF YOU WANT A GOOD GRADE IN PSYCHOLOGY YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO DO MORE (PUT IN MORE EFFORT) THAN 90% OF OTHER STUDENTS IN THE COUNTRY. 

MOST STUDENTS WILL NOT DO THE EXTRA WORK REQUIRED FOR HIGH GRADES……..will!