QR Challenge: History of Psychology

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. How did Psychology develop from its prescientific roots in early understandings of the mind and body to the begining of modern science?
2. Who is considered the father of Modern day psychology and why?2
3. Explain the difference between structuralism and Functionalism?3
4. Explain in your own words the Big Issue that is debated throughout Psychology?4
5. This perspective of Psychology focuses on how the body and brain are linked and how genese combine with the enviornment to influence individual differences5
6. This perspective of Psychology focuses on learning and learned observable responses6
7. This perspective focus on the self and achieving full self-fullfilment7
8. This perspective focus is on behaviour and the think it has based on the culture and situation.8
9. This perspective focus on encoding, processing, storing and retrieving information9
10. This perspective believes that Natural Selection of traits promotes the survival of genes10
11. This perspective focuses on unconscious drives and conflicts11
12. Draw a diagram that demonstrates your understanding of the Biopsychosocial approach to psychology12
13. What is the difference between basic research and applied research in psychology13
14. Some early philosphers, thinkers and psychologists believed that we are born "blank slates". Explain how this might influence fews on behaviour14
15. In the early 1950 and 1960s their were three ways of looking at Psychology, what were the three major perspectives and name one person who started each15

 

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