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Each PsyKit contains one resource cd with a detailed PowerPoint
presentation (including AQA Key Studies and OCR Core Studies)
and printable activities, worksheets and diagrams for students.
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The PowerPoint presentation can be customised to incorporate
your existing teaching notes, providing a comprehensive and
flexible resource.
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The box also contains a relevant dvd and a variety of practical
resources for teaching the particular area of psychology.
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Ideal for Open Evenings as well as teaching to exam syllabi.
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A PsyKit is a varied collection of classroom activities and practical
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Contents
A selection of slides from the presentations to give an overview of each PsyKit.
Screens 3 - 8:
Visual Perception
Screens 9 - 13:
Non-Verbal Communication
Screens 14 - 19:
GCSE Brain
Screens 20 - 25:
AS/A2 Biopsychology
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Visual Perception
 Diagram of the
physiology of the eye.
 Explanation of how the
eye works.
 Retina, rods, cones.
 The blind spot.
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Visual Perception
 How do visual illusions
work?
 Examples of visual
illusions.
 Gestalt grouping laws.
 R L Gregory’s
explanation.
 Perceptual constancies.
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Visual Perception
 Monocular cues.
 Binocular cues.
 Visual Cliff Experiment:
Gibson & Walk 1960.
 Size constancy:
Bower 1966.
 Displaced images:
Stratton 1896.
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Visual Perception
 Printable worksheets
with answer sheets
provided.
 Printable activities
sheets.
 3D images to use with
3D glasses.
 Optical illusions.
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Visual Perception
 Explanation of how
visual distortion goggles
work.
 Activities using visual
distortion goggles.
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Visual Perception
 Explanation of a Möbius
Strip.
 Video footage of how to
make a Möbius Strip.
 Video demonstrations
of activities with a
Möbius Strip.
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Non-Verbal
Communication
 Functions of Non-Verbal
Communication:
Argyle 1988.
 Paralinguistics:
Davitz & Davitz 1961;
Argyle, Alkema &
Gilmore 1971.
 Practical implications of
research.
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Non-Verbal
Communication
 Eye contact and gaze:
Hess 1963;
Exline et al 1967;
Argyle 1968;
Argyle 1975.
 Facial expressions:
Osgood 1966;
Ekman 1971;
Sackheim 1978;
Yuki et al 2007.
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Non-Verbal
Communication
 Body language, posture
and gestures:
Saitz et al 1972.
 Touch:
McGinley, Lefevre &
McGinley 1975;
McGinley 1975;
Fisher, Rytting & Heslin
1976;
Lynn & Mynier 1993.
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Non-Verbal
Communication
 Personal space:
Hall 1959;
Argyle & Dean 1965;
Felipe & Sommer 1966;
Sommer 1969;
Fisher & Byrne 1975;
Zahn 1991;
Bell 1996;
Willis 1996.
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Non-Verbal
Communication
 16 varied activities,
worksheets and tables
to record results.
 Printable cue cards for
work on basic emotions,
body language and
personal space.
 22 photos to practise
reading body language.
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GCSE Brain
 Areas of the brain:
Forebrain;
Midbrain;
Hindbrain.
 Lobes:
Frontal;
Temporal;
Occipital;
Parietal.
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GCSE Brain
 Limbic System.
 MRI scans.
 PET scans:
Raine et al 1997.
 Event Related
Potentials (ERPs).
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GCSE Brain
 Nervous System.
 Neurons.
 Neurotransmitters.
 Networks.
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GCSE Brain
 How to look after your
brain:
healthy eating;
hydration;
exercise;
mental stimulation.
 Effects of alcohol,
nicotine and drugs on
the brain.
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GCSE Brain
 Printable worksheets
with answer sheets
provided.
 Suggestions for
activities using the
materials provided in
the box.
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GCSE Brain
 Materials provided for
classroom activity to
teach the location of
the lobes of the brain.
 Additional labels
provided to examine
the functions of each
lobe.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Evolution of the brain,
areas of the brain and
brain lateralisation.
 Phineas Gage.
 Frontal lobe and Broca’s
Area.
 Stages of sleep:
Dement & Kleitman 1957.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Temporal lobe and
Wernicke’s Area.
 Occipital lobe and splitbrain patients:
Sperry 1968.
 Parietal lobe and
somatosensory cortex.
 Limbic System:
Maguire et al 2000.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Homeostasis.
 Central Nervous System.
 Peripheral Nervous
System.
 Autonomic Nervous
System.
 Fight or flight response.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Neurons, networks,
neurotransmitters, mirror
neurons, glial cells.
 Aggression, addiction,
mood disorders, autism.
 Scanning techniques:
Raine et al 1997;
De Bellis et al 2001.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Printable worksheets
with answers.
 Activities to:
demonstrate one-way
messages in neurons;
demonstrate localisation
in hearing using space;
show pupillary reflex;
show knee reflex;
demonstrate use of left
and right sides of brain.
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AS/A2
Biopsychology
 Materials provided for
classroom activity to
teach the location of the
lobes of the brain.
 Additional labels
provided to examine the
functions of each lobe.
 Additional labels
provided to show the
consequences of
damage to each lobe.
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