Checking your own progress

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Now is the time to reflect on your progress so far in psychology. Consider what is going well.

                 What else you could you be doing to improve your performance?

I would like you all to hand me a copy of your 3 development targets by Friday 2nd December. Ensure your targets are SMART ones: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed. Here are some ideas to get you started:

  •  Team up with a ‘study buddy’ and meet regularly to help each other. Be specific when this will be and what you will do in your sessions.
  • Create a study timetable and allow at least four to five hours a week for studying Psychology outside lessons. (e.g. you could produce your study timetable by 30th November and monitor it weekly).
  • Organise your notes into sections in a lever arch file by 30th November.
  • Make at least one sensible contribution in each lesson.
  • Complete summaries for each key study. These could be in the form of revision cards for each aspect of the study: aim, sample, method(s), procedure, results, and conclusions.
  • Complete summary evaluation sheets for each key study…. ‘GRAVE’
  • Complete summary evaluation sheets for each main theory…. ‘CASTLES’
  • Consider the 2 psychological approaches we have covered so far, list at least two strengths and two weaknesses of each approach. Make sure you can think of an example to illustrate each point you make.
  • Set aside a time to use the psychology blog every week (e.g. 30 minutes). Go through power points again at your own pace.
  • Spend an evening with friends watching the films I have recommended – ’12 Angry men’, ‘Momento’, ‘Five steps to tyranny’, ‘Suffragettes’, ‘Inside out’.
  • Test yourself every week using the multiple choice questions in the digital text book.
  • Regularly read through your preferred textbook. Do about twenty pages a week. Try to answer all the questions. If you are not sure…..….ask.
  • Make your own summary cards of the strengths and weaknesses of the different methods used in psychology.
  • Check your notes are up to date. Work with a friend to fill in any gaps.
  • Spend an hour in the library each term reading the latest ‘the psychology review magasine’.
  • Read a book from the book suggestions (blog 1) and keep a record of it in your reading log.

 

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