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APPLIED
PSYCHOLOGY
SUMMER
CHALLENGE
SUBMISSION DATE: First day back of the
new academic year.
This is not an optional piece of work. It is a
requirement.
Contact:
Kelly.McKaig@thebicesterschool.org.uk
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Recommended Watching
Babies I am a Killer Mindhunter The Mind Explained
The Creative
Brain Inside the Criminal Mind Heal 100 Humans
Pandemic: How to
Sex Explained Brain on Fire Black Mirror
prevent an outbreak
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Recommended Reading
The Happiness
Reaching Down the Elephants on Mistakes were made (But Hypothesis:
Rabbit Hole: David Burrell Acid: Alex Boese not by me): Carol Travis Johnathan Haidt
The Private Life The Little Book of The Lucifer Effect: The Psychopath
of the Brain: Psychology: Emily Ralls Philip Zimbardo Test: Jon Ronson
Susan Greenfield
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FREE Online Courses
There are a range of different platforms online which allow you to access free online
courses. However, I have listed on this document the ones I feel would be most
useful to deepen and broaden your Psychological knowledge beyond the A level
specification. However, this list is not exhaustive so please do free to explore the
websites and see if there are other courses available which interest you.
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FREE Online Courses
There are a range of different platforms online which allow you to access free online
courses. However, I have listed on this document the ones I feel would be most
useful to deepen and broaden your Psychological knowledge beyond the A level
specification. However, this list is not exhaustive so please do free to explore the
websites and see if there are other courses available which interest you.
Name of Course Outline Number of Link
Hours/Weeks
Forensic Discover how forensic 3 hours per https://www.future
Psychology: psychology helps week for 8 learn.com/courses
Witness obtain evidence from weeks /forensic-
Investigation eyewitnesses in police psychology
investigations and
prevents cases
of injustice
Explore some of the
current challenges and https://www.future
Psychology and debates in the area of 3 hours per learn.com/courses
Mental Health: diagnosis and week for 6 /mental-health-
Beyond Nature treatment. You will gain weeks and-well-being
and Nurture new perspectives on
the “nature vs nurture”
debate, and
understand how we
are affected by life
experiences.
Introduction to Consider the 4 hours per https://www.future
Cognitive psychology of thinking week for 3 learn.com/courses
Psychology: Learn and reasoning. You will weeks /an-introduction-
how to conduct, learn how to run an to-cognitive-
analyse and experiment, how to psychology-as-an-
understand collect data, and experimental-
cognitive understand the science science
psychology behind memory and
experiments behaviour through
experiments.
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FREE Online Courses
There are a range of different platforms online which allow you to access free online
courses. However, I have listed on this document the ones I feel would be most
useful to deepen and broaden your Psychological knowledge beyond the A level
specification. However, this list is not exhaustive so please do free to explore the
websites and see if there are other courses available which interest you.
Name Outline Course Link
length
https://www.cours
Fundamental Introduces the basic 8 hours era.org/learn/neu
Neuroscience for principles of roscience-
Neuroimaging neuroimaging methods neuroimaging#ab
as applied to human out
subject’s research and
introduce the
neuroscience concepts
and terminology
necessary for a basic
understanding of
neuroimaging
applications
https://www.cours
Sleep: Considers the era.org/learn/slee
Neurobiology, neurobiological basis of 16 hours p
Medicine and sleep control and how
Society sleep deprivation, jet lag,
and substances such as
alcohol, caffeine and
nicotine alter sleep and
wakefulness.
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Task 1 – Psychology in the Media
It is important to raise public awareness about issues which are prevailing in
society relating to psychology. One way in which public awareness is raised
about psychology in general and issues that exist within the health care sector
is through the media.
Your task is to pick…
➢ x2 Films
➢ x1 Book
➢ x2 Documentaries
You are to write an essay with the following title: ‘Discuss the portrayal of
psychology within the media’
You must watch/read the some of the examples on the previous slides and
create notes to help with your essay. Consider the following:
• What issues, if any, are being raised in the stimulus?
• How does the stimulus present psychology?
• Is the stimulus informative/helpful and why?
• Are there any quotes/scenes etc that stand out to you and why?
• How effective is the stimulus in raising public awareness about psychological
Issues?
This list is NOT exhaustive there may be other questions/ideas you wish to
consider as you watch or read.
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Task 2 – Glossary
Research and define the following words which are central to the
Approaches in Psychology Unit. Then, draw a symbol to summarise the
term and help you remember it.
Term Definition Symbol
Nature
Nurture
Evolution
Schema
Operant
Conditioning
Classical
Conditioning
Cognitive Bias
Conformity
Vicarious
Reinforcement
Hostile Attribution
Bias
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Task 3 – Careers
Research a list of Psychology related jobs/terms for each letter of the
alphabet
A N
B O
C P
D Q
E R
F S
G T
H U
I V
J W
K X
L Y
M Z
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Task 4 – History of Psychology
You need to create an A4 Psychological History timeline. On your timeline
you should include a number of features such as the ones below (but not
necessarily ONLY these).
To make a high quality timeline, you will need to do some additional
research into what each of the events actually refers to – and why it might
have been important to the development of Psychology.
The Curious Case of Phineas Gage, Wilhelm Wundt’s Psychology Lab,
foundation of the American Psychological Association, Sigmund Freud
publishes “The Interpretation of Dreams”, Pavlov’s Dog Studies are published,
Carl Rogers publishes “Counselling and Psychotherapy”, the first use of a
brain scan in Psychological research.
This will be the focus of the first topic we will study next year. A great link for
this task is https://allpsych.com/timeline/.
10Task 5 – Approaches in Psychology
There are some core approaches to Psychology that you need to know for
your course next year – they are different ways of explaining human
behaviours.
Some of these are listed below: your job is to do some research on them
using the internet (Wikipedia, while sometimes untrustworthy, is very good for
this! There are also plenty of great videos on YouTube you can watch).
You should find out: what does this word mean? How might it explain human
behaviour? Identify one key researcher from this area – and why are they
famous?
1. The Behaviourist Approach
2. The Social Learning Theory Approach
3. The Cognitive Approach
4. The Biological Approach
11Task 6 – Research Task
Chose a professional from the following:
• Clinical Psychologist
• Couselling Psychologist
• Educational Psychologist
• Forensic Psychologist
Create a fact file for your chosen job role. You
could include:
• A day in the life of……
• General roles and responsibilities
• Routes into the role/ qualifications required
• Skills & qualities
• Average pay
• Where they work
• Who they work with
And anything else you think may be suitable
12Task 7 – Psychology Today
Psychology is still a developing subject, with new research and information being revealed
every single day. As keen young Psychologists, you need to keep abreast of new information.
Twitter is seen by some to be the future of social science – it is used by researchers,
academics and other social scientists alike to share news and information as well as discuss
issues. I would advise that you create yourselves Twitter accounts as soon as possible and
follow the below users for information and news:
@TBS_Psych (TBS Psychology Department)
@PsychToday (Psychology Today magazine)
@tutor2uPsych (Tutor2U’s Psychology feed)
@ResearchDigest (The British Psychological Society’s Research feed)
@Psychmag (The Psychologist magazine)
Your second task is to keep an eye on these Twitter accounts (as well as wider sources – the
news and shows on TV, newspapers and others – there are loads of fantastic movies and
documentaries that you can watch for Psychology!) now and over the Summer holidays and
make a note of any particularly interesting news that is relevant to Psychology.
13Task 8 – COVID-19
Lockdown is the world's biggest psychological
experiment - and we will pay the price
Currently, an estimated 2.6 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – is
living under some kind of lockdown or quarantine. This is arguably the largest
psychological experiment ever conducted.
The Psychology of a Pandemic:
Task:
1. Pick one of the following lines of enquiry:
• Conformity: Clapping for our NHS
• Dis/Obedience: Following Lockdown Policies
• Minority Influence: How might the UK government convince the majority
to’ Stay Home’ using psychological techniques
• Consumerism: Panic buying Toilet Roll
• Mental Health: Long Term and Short Term Psychological Effects of
Quarantine
2. Research your chosen line of enquiry
3. Write an article for The Bicester School Newsletter titled ‘COVID -19 and
Lockdown – from the Perspective of a Psychologist’
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