QR Challenge: BIOLOGICAL 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. What is defined by the Greek word ‘bios’ meaning ‘life’ and logos meaning ‘study’?	biology.
2. One of the reasons why the biological perspective is relevant to the study of psychology, that is, different species of animal can be studied and compared. This can help in the search to understand human behaviour.	comparative method.
3. How the nervous system and hormones work, how the brain functions, how changes in structure and/or function can affect behaviour. This is called ?	physiology.
4. What an animal inherits from its parents. For example, we might know whether high intelligence is inherited from one generation to the next. This is called ?	inheritance.
5. Human genes have evolved over millions of years to adapt behaviour to the environment. Therefore most behaviour is ?	evolutionary
6. This is what is inherited or genetic. You are born with this and it cannot be changed	nature.
7. The importance of environmental influences on behaviour. This is learned behaviour. Behaviour we are taught.	nurture.
8. Those who take an extreme heredity position are called what?	nativists.
9. It is argued that we all have a B______ C_____ which switches on or off types of behaviour in a pre-programmed way	Biological Clock.
10. The opposite view from the nativists. These psychologists argue that at birth we are a blank slate which is gradually filled with learned behaviour	environmentalists.

 

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