Lesson 1  – This lesson we revisited the assessment objectives and the command words used in the exam. I hope you found it useful to practice the skills of describing, comparing and evaluating – if not I hope you liked the lollipops! 1 Command words

Lesson 2- We revisited the concepts of reliability and validity. These are key terms and it is essential you use them regularly and appropriately. Remember you can find out more about these concepts on pages 66-69 in  the GHG digi book . 

We then finished off our history of psychology lesson. Read pages 8-9 in the GHG digi book .

Lesson 3  – This lesson focused on what we mean by ‘science’. We need to know the key features of science. We also need to consider at what point psychology emerged as a science subject.

Prep

Use the internet/ textbooks to summarise the origins of Psychology in no more that 250 words.  Your summary will be assessed for your level of literacy, effective use of grammar and for plagiarism.  They must be your own words! Due next Wednesday 

By now you should have worked through the chapter of the text book on the approaches, pages 10-21 in the GHG digi book. This will have helped you create your revision cards. Please check you have attempted the quizzes on each double page spread.       If you haven’t, do it NOW.

Additionally check you have read the section in your text book on the Comparison of Approaches pages 22-23 in the GHG digi book .

Have you looked at the summaries on pages 26-27?

Have you looked at the model answers on pages 28-29?

You are now ready to complete the multiple choice questions on pages 30-31 and check your answers (page 31).

Finally —— print off the Idiographic vs Nomothetic essay for your file 

Lesson 4  – Whilst you completed an Approaches check list with key terms, theories, psychologists etc – I handed back your Paper 1 and paper 2 assessments.

All of you are welcome to attend 6.1 lessons on Monday period 2, 3 and 6  and on Tuesday period 1 and Wednesday period 1.

Lesson 5  –  We continued examining the features of science >>> 1 Moho ppt, in so doing we revisited all the different research methods 🙂  Do look at the power point again to ensure you have grasped the key terms. Ensure you read the relevant section of the PHG digital text book pages 82-83

You have some questions to answer >>> Is psychology a science  and a grid to complete, and an essay to write all for Tuesday 2nd October

Describe the contributions to society of the cognitive and psychodynamic approaches, and compare the two approaches in terms of their scientific status (16)