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• The ideal main course text for either OCR or AQA GCSE Psychology, providing complete coverage of both specifications for first teaching from September 2009 • Each chapter clearly signposts the content for whichever specification you are teaching • Written by two experienced textbook authors, who are also teachers and examiners • Full-colour layout with plentiful photographs, cartoons, and illustrations • Packed full of pedagogical features, including key terms, summaries, and GCSE exam-style questions • Accompanied by online multimedia materials, including PowerPoint lecture slides, a multiplechoice question test-bank, and weekly teaching plans tailored to each specification • Download the free sample chapter now!
“A comprehensive, accurate, and informative resource for any student studying GCSE Level Psychology with either OCR or AQA specifications. Each chapter is accessible to any student and provides ample opportunity for extension if desired. A solid, well-composed textbook for any budding psychologist.” - Elle Boag, Psychology Teacher, Totton College Praise for the first edition: “This book provides a thorough coverage of the OCR syllabus and is written in a clear and accessible style that will appeal to both students and teachers. Definitions are clear; studies are simply explained and evaluated. There are lots of activities, pictures and examples that will really help the student to understand psychology and relate it to real life.” - Jane Scampion, experienced examiner “As a teacher, I found this an excellent text, and it hasn’t left my desk since ordering it. I have found it especially useful with weaker members of my class as they find the layout easier to follow than those of some of the other textbooks available for the course. Within each section, the keywords provide a basic understanding for the students and can help to add to their glossaries, and there’s an extremely useful coursework and methods section at the back. Overall a very good book. I would recommend it to students and teachers alike. Could also be used by AS students getting to grips with a new subject.” - amazon.co.uk customer review “Having bought this text in the summer, in preparation for teaching GCSE Psychology for the first time, I have been impressed by the whole package! Learners find they can dip in and out of the chapters with additional supportive key terms and exam hints helpfully arranged throughout. Simply-presented topics are awash with colour and vibrance to keep interest. As a teacher, the resources … [have] been immensely valuable. The interactive multiple-choice tests allow full class participation at the end of each chapter.” - amazon.co.uk customer review
Written by two experienced psychology teachers and examiners, this textbook covers the major GCSE Psychology specifications: OCR and AQA. It provides thorough coverage of both specifications in a user-friendly style, clearly indicating which sections apply to which specification. It incorporates many everyday examples, which illustrate the theories and bring psychology to life in order to maintain students’ interest throughout. The book is produced in attractive full colour with plenty of photographs, pictures and cartoons. It contains a wealth of activities to stimulate interest and help the student understand the basic theories. To ensure exam success, it provides exam hints, summaries, and GCSE exam-style questions.
July 2009: 246x189: 368pp Pb: 978-1-84872-018-3: £16.50
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About the Authors Diana Dwyer is an experienced teacher of psychology at many levels, including GCSE. She examined GCSE Psychology for twelve years and is very familiar with both the requirements of GCSE specifications and with the skills involved in classroom teaching of Years 10 and 11. She is also active in supporting teachers in her role with the Association for the Teaching of Psychology. Craig Roberts has over ten years of experience teaching GCSE Psychology. He is the Head of Psychology at Totton College, Southampton, and is on the Educational Committee for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. He has been a GCSE examiner since 2000, and is a regular attendee at the Association for the Teaching of Psychology annual conference.
CONTENTS Chapter 1. Preparing for the GCSE Exam. Part 1. Social Psychology 1. Chapter 2. Social Influence. Chapter 3. Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination. Part 2. Social Psychology 2. Chapter 4. Aggression. Chapter 5. Non-verbal Communication. Part 3. Biological Psychology. Chapter 6. Sex and Gender. Chapter 7. Criminal Behaviour. Part 4. Developmental Psychology. Chapter 8. Attachment. Chapter 9. Cognitive Development. Part 5. Cognitive Psychology. Chapter 10. Memory. Chapter 11. Perception. Part 6. Individual Differences. Chapter 12. Learning and Atypical Behaviour. Chapter 13. Development of Personality. Chapter 14. The Self. Part 7. Research in Psychology. Chapter 15. Research Methods.
Resources for Teachers Psychology for GCSE Level, Second Edition is accompanied by extensive online resources which are available free of charge to schools who adopt this book as their text. Whether you are an experienced teacher or new to the subject, the resources will support your teaching and make your life easier! The resources include: • A multiple-choice question test bank with twenty questions per chapter. Questions are provided in interactive and printable formats, and by specification. • A complete chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint lecture course for each specification, which clearly summarises each topic. • Sample answers to the exam questions that appear at the end of each chapter of the book. •
A weekly teaching plan for each specification that breaks the syllabus down into one-hour lesson blocks and provides guidance on what should be covered each week in order to get through the course. It takes into account varying workloads and shows how to tailor the teaching to fit individual timetables. Each lesson block includes: ✰✰Specification content. ✰✰Details of the relevant resources needed (textbook page numbers, multiple-choice questions, PowerPoint slides, and sample answers). ✰✰Suggested teaching activities and classroom ideas. ✰✰Homework suggestions.
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