Starting with confidence 2022
Welcome to Psychology A level at Bhasvic.
There are a number of tasks and activities that you'll need to do before you start with us in September. Scroll down this page and complete all the tasks.
Part a - do over the summer before the start of college
Part B - complete after enrolement (or earlier if you wish)
Task 1 - intoduction to research - 60 minutes approx
|
|
- Watch the video to the left.
- Pause to answer each question below. - Click here to download these questions on a work sheet or hand write the questions and answers on a sheet of paper. - Please answer in as much detail as you can 1) Why can't we trust our intuition when we are explaining behaviour? 2) Why do we have scientific inquiry in psychology? 3) What is a theory in science? 4) What is a hypothesis in science? 5) Why do we want to replicate the findings of research? 6) What is a case study in psychology? 7) What is a naturalistic observation? 8) what are surveys and interviews in psychology? 9) Why are how the questions asked important in surveys? 10) What are correlations? 11) why don't correlations indicate causation? 12) What are experiments? 13 Why do we want to randomly allocate participants to experimental and control groups 14) What is s a double blind procedure? 15) what is an IV and a DV? |
Task 2 - SOCIAL INFLUENCE - 60 minutes - approx.
We have devised information packs for the whole course. These are for you to use whenever you wish. Feel free to download them and print them out if you want a hard copy.
Please download this info pack (feel free to print it out) for 'social influence': CLICK HERE FOR PACK.
Answer the five questions below. Click here for worksheet or write out questions and answers on a sheet of paper
Social influence (Unit 1)
1) what is meant by Informational social influence?
2) what is meant by normative social influence?
3) identify and describe Kelman's types of conformity
4) find one research study on conformity from the pack and summarise the procedures and findings
5) all studies can be criticised. Explain how the study you have summarised can be criticised
Please download this info pack (feel free to print it out) for 'social influence': CLICK HERE FOR PACK.
Answer the five questions below. Click here for worksheet or write out questions and answers on a sheet of paper
Social influence (Unit 1)
1) what is meant by Informational social influence?
2) what is meant by normative social influence?
3) identify and describe Kelman's types of conformity
4) find one research study on conformity from the pack and summarise the procedures and findings
5) all studies can be criticised. Explain how the study you have summarised can be criticised
Task 3 - research methods introduction 90 mins approx.
Please download this info pack (feel free to print it out) for 'research methods year 1': CLICK HERE FOR PACK.
Answer the nine questions below. Click here for worksheet or write out questions and answers on a sheet of paper
Year 1 Research methods (Unit 2)
1) what is an IV and a DV? (p7)
2) what is meant by 'operationalisation'? (p7)
3) Identify and describe the four types of experiment (p11-12)
4) give one strength and one weakness of each type of experiment (p 11-12)
5) in non-experimental research, what is a case study? (p25)
6) what is meant by a pilot study and why are the necessary? (p34)
7) what is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data? (p36)
8) what is the difference between primary and secondary data? (p37)
9) draw a normal, negative and positive distribution: add the position of the mode, mean and median in each? (p46)
To see all our info packs for the whole course, click here. http://www.psych205.com/information-packs.html
Answer the nine questions below. Click here for worksheet or write out questions and answers on a sheet of paper
Year 1 Research methods (Unit 2)
1) what is an IV and a DV? (p7)
2) what is meant by 'operationalisation'? (p7)
3) Identify and describe the four types of experiment (p11-12)
4) give one strength and one weakness of each type of experiment (p 11-12)
5) in non-experimental research, what is a case study? (p25)
6) what is meant by a pilot study and why are the necessary? (p34)
7) what is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data? (p36)
8) what is the difference between primary and secondary data? (p37)
9) draw a normal, negative and positive distribution: add the position of the mode, mean and median in each? (p46)
To see all our info packs for the whole course, click here. http://www.psych205.com/information-packs.html
Task 4 - - hypotheses - 90 minutes
You will need to know about hypothesis testing in psychology, it's one of the key features of science. Some of it is complex so don't worry if you find it challenging, but do try and complete all the tasks as best as you can. Click here for the worksheet on word or click here for worksheet on PDF
Task 5 - conformity to roles - 60 mins
For this task, all you need to do is watch and enjoy, then bullet point the important findings about conforming to roles Psychology: The Stanford Prison Experiment - BBC Documentary - YouTube
Part B - up to 4 hours
There is a lot of Maths in Psychology. Download and print out this maths pack and finish all the tasks. This is a task for you in September, but feel free to start this over the summer holiday to get a head start. MATHS in PSYCHOLOGY Pack