Support Material GCE Psychology OCR Advanced GCE in Psychology: H568 Unit: G544 This Support Material booklet is designed to accompany the OCR Advanced GCE specification in Psychology for teaching from September 2008. Contents Contents 2 Introduction 3 Scheme of Work - Psychology : H568 : G544 5 Lesson Plans - Psychology : H568 : G544 27 Other forms of Support 35
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between psychologists, known as the nature versus nurture debate. Nature refers to one’s hereditary predisposition, meaning the genes passed down from your parents. Anxiety has been proven to be passed down from parent to child, but some psychologists argue that these genes do not become active until stimulated by some external event, such as the loss of a loved one, or another major life trauma. These external events and how one is raised is referred to as “nurture.” Because of this hand-in-hand relationship
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childhood which provides a reason as to how they became what they are but there are also serial killers who had the perfect childhood and still became a serial killer. Nature versus nurture has been a common theme when studying serial killers. People want to know what made these people commit some of their horrendous acts. Both nature and nurture determine what someone will act like in the future. Genes and the environment each have an effect on a person in different ways but in the long run they both work
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Figurative Language versus Literal Language Victoria Campbell Philosophy 210 Critical Thinking Michael Volpe April 22, 2012 Sensory Perceptions Sensory perceptions refer to your senses. The five senses are sight, touch, sound, smell and taste. Each sense has its own unique characteristic for each person. Sensory information can be both accurate and inaccurate. There are also factors that contribute to the accuracy of sensory data as well. Finally there is also an accepted methodology
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criminal behaviour, who can take the blame, genetics or the environment? Substantiate your answer with information from the case study Introduction The case study on Susan Fryburg is a prime example of a case in which there is an argument between nature vs nurture. Below I will provide my opinion on which factors played a decisive role in Susan’s criminal behaviour, and whether genetics or environmental factors can take the blame. This will be done by dividing the various examples from the case study into
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San Jose Community College Malilipot, Albay PYSCHOLOGY I CASE STUDY (INFANCY) Lorielyn Faith Banas I-B student Introduction As newborns, we were not empty-headed organisms. We cried, kicked, coughed, sucked, saw, heard and tasted. We slept a lot and occasionally we smiled, although the meaning of our smiles was not entirely clear. We crawled and then we walked a journey of a thousand miles beginning with a single step…….Sometimes we conformed, sometimes others conformed
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Introduction to Personality Wilma Leibbrandt PSY 405 Dr. Phillip Morris May 7, 2012 Personality Theories For centuries, theorists are fascinated in how humans behave, and if factors and influences are involved to help shape a person’s personality. More than 100 years ago, Sigmund Freud became intrigued by the human’s behavior in which he combined philosophical speculations with primitive methods to understand the hidden factors to a person’s symptoms. Most theorists gained better understanding
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myself and iBottom of Form The Scientific Method Psychology is, like any science, a branch of knowledge that deals with a body of facts systematically arranged and shows the operation of general laws. In all sciences, including psychology, a special procedure, the scientific method, must be used to collect data to answer a question or to solve a problem. The scientific method not only answers the question at hand but also is used to construct scientific theories. A theory is systematically organized
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Personality Approaches Quantifiable Studying personality in a psychological field is by making assumptions on the basis of human nature, this leads to the view-point of different perspectives, having a different viewpoint, and even a different out-look of the world when it comes to individualized researches. This leads to around 6 different dimensions of human nature: the first would be regarding determinism against freedom of choice; the second would be pessimism against optimism; the third perspective
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Foundations of Psychology Erika Whitacre PSY300 Betsy Ferronato June 9, 2014 Foundations of Psychology Psychology was born from philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Philosophy had reached a point in which the desire to learn surpassed the amount of information available in subjects of ethics, integrity, and the quality of information. By using the techniques and knowledge of physical science, psychologists began the pursuit of fundamental directives of people and animal behavior. Out
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