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Webinars What The Examiner Said - And How to Respond for Summer 2017 – Now on You. Tube Energising Students in the Year 1 Psychology Classroom – Thursday 15 th September @ 8: 00 Practical Approaches to Teach Issues and Debates in Year 2 Psychology – Sunday 18 th September @ 8: 00

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Session Aims Analysing Issues & Debates • The Specification • What types of questions will AQA ask? Mapping Issues & Debates to Approaches • Understanding the Key Terms • Comparing Issues & Debates with Approaches • Sorting out Issues & Debates, once and for all! • Comparison vs. Evaluation Mapping Issues & Debates to Year 1 & 2 Topics • Issues & Debates Student Topic Tables & GRENADE • Example: Issues & Debates in Relationships

Analysing Issues & Debates • The Specification • What types of questions will AQA ask?

The Specification Titles Issues and Debates in Psychology Gender and culture in psychology – universality and bias. 08. 1 Gender and culture Gender bias including androcentrism and alpha and beta bias; Cultural bias, including: ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; Biological 08. 2 Free will and Environmental determinism Psychic determinism The scientific emphasis on causal explanations. The nature-nurture debate: the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining 08. 3 Nature vs nurture behaviour; the interactionist approach. Holism and reductionism: levels of explanation in psychology. 08. 4 Holism and Biological reductionism Environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism 08. 5 Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation. nomothetic 08. 6 Ethical implications of research studies and theory, including reference to social sensitivity. research

IDA Sample Question Mapping Definition Short-Answer Question Evaluation Short-Answer Question Application Essay Compare/Contrast Essay?

Short-Answer Questions Definition SAQ: With reference to the item above, explain what is meant by ‘determinism’. Refer to three types of determinism in your answer. [6 marks] Evaluation SAQ: Briefly outline one problem associated with alpha bias in psychological research, and one problem associated with beta bias in psychological research. [4 marks]

Application Questions Application: 04 Read the item and then answer the question that follows. A prison psychologist used an idiographic approach to study offending. He asked two offenders to record their thoughts about their childhood and their offending behaviour in a journal over a period of four weeks. Qualitative analysis of the journals showed that the offenders often thought about sad childhood events and believed that their childhood experiences had influenced their offending. Findings from idiographic research like the study described above are often used as a basis for other investigations. Explain how the researcher might develop the above investigation through taking a nomothetic approach. [6 marks]

Essays Issues/Debates Essay ‘The best way to understand explain behaviour is to reduce it to the simplest component parts. ’ In the context of the holism-reductionism debate, discuss this view. Refer to at least one topic in your answer. (Total 16 marks) Why can’t this one topic be approaches? Approaches Essay Outline the psychodynamic approach in psychology. Discuss one or more differences between the psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. [8 marks] Why can’t this discussion be centred on issues and debates?

Analysing Issues & Debates • The Specification • What types of questions will AQA ask? Any Questions?

Mapping Issues & Debates to Approaches • Understanding the Key Terms • Comparing Issues & Debates with Approaches • Sorting out Issues & Debates, once and for all! • Comparison vs. Evaluation

Understanding the Key Terms Students will only be able to embed issues and debates into the optional units (and Year 1 content) if they know these terms explicitly… Activity 1: Issues & Debates Quiz Trade…

Understanding the Key Terms

Comparing Issues & Debates with Approaches Issues/Debates Essay ‘The best way to understand explain behaviour is to reduce it to the simplest component parts. ’ In the context of the holism-reductionism debate, discuss this view. Refer to at least one topic in your answer. (Total 16 marks) Why can’t this one topic be approaches? Approaches Essay Outline the psychodynamic approach in psychology. Discuss one or more differences between the psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. [8 marks] Why can’t this discussion be centred on issues and debates?

Evaluation: Students can use the rows to evaluate essays within the I&D topic: ‘The best way to understand explain behaviour is to reduce it to the simplest component parts. ’ In the context of the holism-reductionism debate, discuss this view. Refer to at least one topic in your answer. (Total 16 marks) Comparison: Students can use the columns to examine similarities and differences between the different issues and debates, within the approaches topic: Outline the psychodynamic approach in psychology. Discuss one or more differences between the psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. [8 marks]

Activity 2: Sorting out ‘issues & debates’, once and for all. The aim of this activity is to consolidate student knowledge and understanding of the different issues and debates, in relation to the psychological approaches.

Comparison vs. Evaluation Outline the psychodynamic approach in psychology. Discuss one or more differences between the psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. [8 marks] Activity 3: How to compare and contrast effectively… The aim of this activity is to provide students with a template for effective comparison using the familiar burger technique.

Psychodynamic vs. Humanist Difference: Which two approaches are you contrasting? Explain Example (Approach 2) (Approach 1) Point One difference between the __________ approach and the __________ is … The __________ approach suggests [Provide explanation of the difference you are going to discuss] … However, the __________ suggests [Explain how approach 2 is difference] …

Comparison Evaluation

Psychodynamic vs. Humanist

Psychodynamic vs. Humanist Explain Example (Approach 2) (Approach 1) Point Difference: Which two approaches are you contrasting? One difference between the psychodynamic approach and the humanist approach is the extent to which they argue that our behaviour is determined. The psychodynamic approach suggests that behaviour is determined by unconscious drives (e. g. the ID) and early childhood experiences, an idea termed psychic determinism. However, the humanist approach suggests that humans control their own environment and are capable of change. Therefore the humanist approach argues that humans have free-will while the psychodynamic approach suggest that our behaviour is determined.

Mapping Issues & Debates to Approaches • Understanding the Key Terms • Comparing Issues & Debates with Approaches • Sorting out Issues & Debates, once and for all! • Comparison vs. Evaluation Any Questions?

Mapping Issues & Debates to Year 1 & 2 Topics • Issues & Debates Student Topic Tables & GRENADE • Example: Issues & Debates in Relationships

Mapping Issues & Debates to Year 1 Specification - Social 01. 1. Types of conformity Which Issue and Debate? Gender Bias - Beta bias 01. 2 Conformity to social roles Gender Bias – Beta bias & Zimbardo 01. 3 Explanations of obedience Culture Bias 01. 4 Dispositional explanations Nomothetic Approach of obedience 01. 6 Minority influence Experimental Reductionism Why? Asch conducted his research with male participants and assumed that the findings would generalise equally to females. As above… Milgram conducted his research in the US. Replications in other cultures have shown differences. Measuring personality characteristics (authoritarian personality) using a psychometric approach. Complex behaviour reduced into isolated variables for research. The effects of minority influence in the real world are much more subtle and it tends to take a long time to have an effect.

Mapping Issues & Debates in Year 2 Which Issue and Debate? Relationships Why? 09. 1 Evolutionary explanations Biological Determinism Views partner preferences as being due to genetic influences (biological determinism). Socially sensitive as can be see to Social Sensitivity justify behaviours such as male promiscuity and even rape. 09. 2 Attraction Nomothetic Approach Filter theory seeks to formulate general laws of behaviour by suggesting that we all use a series of filters to narrow down the 'field of availables'. 09. 3 Romantic relationships Cultural Bias - Ethnocentrism Most research into romantic relationships has been conducted in Western societies. Some research has suggested that equity is not as important in non-Western cultures. 09. 4 Duck's phase model Social Sensitivity Carrying out research into relationship breakdown can potentially be intrusive and distressing for partipants. 09. 6 Parasocial relationships Nomothetic Approach Use of the Celebrity Attitude scale to identify levels of parasocial relationship is an example of a nomothetic, quantitative approach.

Mapping Issues & Debates – Student Topic Tables Activity 4: Student Topic Tables – One for every single Year 1 and 2 Topic.

Issues and Debates in Relationships… Activity 5: Issues and Debates in Relationships… The aim of this activity is to encourage students to apply their knowledge of issues and debates to the topic relationships…

Issues and Debates in Relationships… Provide students with a ‘Grenade’ poster Use a spinner to select and issue/debate: www. wheeldecide. com

Mapping Issues & Debates to Year 1 & 2 Topics • Issues & Debates Student Topic Tables & GRENADE • Example: Issues & Debates in Relationships Any Questions?

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