QR Challenge: A Level 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. Name the three drugs used to treat scz – with correct spelling.	Chlorpromazine, clozapine & risperidone
2. Which treatment should be used according to the diathesis-stress model of scz?	Drugs and CBT
3. What were the two cognitive explanations for scz (Frith et al)?	Metarepresentation and central control
4. Who carried out studies on family therapy and then later reviewed studies on its effectiveness?	Pharoah et al
5. Explain how ethical issues may arise when using token economies or drugs to treat scz.	severe patients cannot access it or chemical cosh.
6. What are the characteristics of expressed emotions?	verbal criticism to patient, hostility to patient and emotional over-involvement.
7. Identify a neural correlate responsible for negative symptoms of scz.	ventral striatum is responsible for avolition.
8. What is meant by temporal and spatial resolution?	temporal – changes over time, spatial – where brain waves originate from
9. List the four techniques of studying the brain.	fMRI, EEG, ERP and post-mortem examinations
10. Which biological rhythm occurs every 24-hrs? Illustrate using an example	circadian, sleep-wake
11. What are the scientific names of the internal and external factor that regulate biological rhythms?	endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers
12. Identify one limitation of research into biological rhythms?	small samples, animal studies cannot be generalised to humans.
13. Name three types of neurons and their functions.	sensory (receptor to CNS), relay (between sensory and relay) and motor (CNS to effectors)
14. Which psychologist used brain scanning technique to study the brain activity of taxi drivers?	Maguire et al, posterior hippocampal gyrus was larger due to learning
15. Identify the three defence mechanisms described by Freud.	denial, repression and displacement
16. Name the five psychosexual stages as described by Freud.	oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital
17. What are the key assumptions of the humanistic approach?	humans are unique, focus on the person as whole, reject scientific methods, focus on subjective feelings and freewill
18. Name the five parts of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.	physiological needs, safety, love/belonging, self-esteem and self-actualisation
19. What are some of Roger’s key concept? What is the name of his therapy?	congruence, unconditional positive regard, conditions of worth. Client-centred therapy.
20. Identify one similarity between the psychodynamic and biological approach.	deterministic.
21. Identify one similarity between the psychodynamic and humanistic approach.	idiographic.
22. Identify one difference between the cognitive and behaviourist approach.	cognitive is soft-determinism, behaviourist is hard-determinism.
23. What are the four stages involved in learning a behaviour, according to social learning theory?	modelling, identification, imitation and vicarious reinforcement
24. What are the four factors involved in mediational processes?	attention, retention, motor reproduction and motivation
25. What percentage of participants administered 450v in Milgram’s experiment?	65%
26. Identify three ethical issues with Milgram’s experiment.	deception, lack of informed consent, psychological harm, no right to withdraw
27. What method did Adorno use in his study?	F-Scale questionnaire
28. Name the 6 criteria’s Jahoda identified as part of ideal mental health.	positive self-attitude, self-actualisation, resistance to stress, personal autonomy, accurate perception of reality, environmental mastery
29. Which areas of the brain are dysfunctional in patients with OCD?	Orbitofrontal cortex, left parahippocampal gyrus, basal ganglia impairment, pre-frontal lobe
30. What is the criminal personality type?	ENP
31. What are the three types of criminal superegos according to Blackburn?	Weak, Deviant, Overharsh
32. What types of crimes was Sutherland the first to research?	White-collar
33. How many interviews did the FBI conduct in the top-down approach?	36 sexually motivated serial killers
34. Outline one limitation of the bottom-up approach.	Not mathematical

 

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