Open with introductory PP and activities with the students. Run through the outline of the course - the main topics and assessment items, the resources needed and used throughout the year and the expectations of the teacher and student.
Move onto the disease known as 'Folie a Duex':
http://www.health.am/psy/shared-psychotic-disorder/
View the '60 Minutes' story and discuss main ideas and concepts.
Session 2 - Psychological Research: The 7 Steps of Psychological Research
Introduce 'The 7 Steps of Psychological
Research' to the class using the relevant Prezi presentation:
Work
through some new psychological terms:
- Hypothesis
- Independent Variable
- Dependent Variable
Complete
'Variables & Hypothesis' worksheet and share answers with the class.
Time permitting - Group
Activity: Designing a Psychological Research Experiment - using the first
4 steps.
Summer Homework Activity:
Research task find a
scientific psychological experiment and bring it into our first session. You
will need to highlight the 7 steps of psychological research as outlined in the
Prezi presentation shown earlier and the small flow chart given out in class.
Here are some websites that
might be useful:
