Year 8 Psychology
andrew chua
Compatible with the Australian Curriculum
Introduction to the Course
Outline of the Course & sample work
Your Questions & focus
Since 2007 @ Wanganui Park
Secondary College (Shepparton)
Why Psychology for Year 8?
VCE
Because they love!
Because they are interested in it
Normality
How humans think, what concepts do they use?
Why do we laugh when someone else gets hurt?
Do colours have anything to do with the way
people react to situations?
Why do we have dreams? Why do we have
good/bad/weird dreams? What influences dreams
and what dreams influence?
How feelings (sad or happy) are brought on? Why
do we show emotions?
Why do we do stupid stuff?
Differences between people
Why do people think different things?
How do people react to different fears?
How male and female thoughts are different?
Social
How and why do people socialise?
How can you read people’s body language, eg
nervous?
Why do people lie? How do you know how
people are lying?
Why do we behave different around some
people?
Why are some boys too much up themselves?
Mental issues
How do people get a disability?
How ‘normal’ people and ‘mentally impaired’ are
different?
What is depression? How do people get
depressed?
What goes wrong in loonies, sociopaths and
psychopaths?
Why are autism kids very smart in certain
subjects or areas yet lacking in social skills?
What is ADHD and what causes it?
Criminal
Why are some people really bad in class?
What and/or how do criminals (more
specifically killers) think?
What makes people do murder? What drives
someone to kill another person?
Why do some people go really creepy when
they get older or become pedophiles?
Biology and body stuff
How big is my brain?
How do brains work?
How do we live?
Why do we need oxygen?
What does your appendix do?
Why do humans sneeze?
Other
Will robots take over the world?
How do animals behave?
How do pets know what we say?
Issues we want to explore about: Friendship, confidence,
habits, control
Social psychology
What is Psychology?
Scientific Approach
Normality
Understanding Individuals
Changing Lives
Breaking a Social Norm
Self-Talk Role-Plays
Life Movie
Communication Media
Definition of psychology
PhotoBooth - Introducing yourself
Example #1 of student introduction
(at start of course)
Example #1 of student introduction
(at end of course)
Example #2 of student introduction
(at start of course)
Example #2 of student introduction
(at end of course)
Assessment #1 – Breaking a social norm
Before
At this stage I am very nervous about
doing it and frightened that people
will never take me the same way as
they do now and think that I am a
complete weirdo.
My personal rating of this social norm
is 8.5/10 because of this very basic
reason MEN DONT WEAR SKIRTS.
During
During the Athletic Sports I didn’t
think much because I was having too
much fun with my mates and after
awhile I completely forgot all about
the EMBARRASSMENT of the whole
day. I also thought my legs were going
to drop off because they were
sooooooooooooooooooooo cold and
frozen stiff because the wind was
blowing up my kilt.
After
I would break it again because boys
wear extremely short shorts to play
footy... but not dare to put a SKIRT on
in the sense that they would be
humiliated because of it.
So after this experience I have the
belief that I can do WHAT ever I want
and not be taken as WEIRD but be
taken as XXXXX XXXX.
Assessment #2 – Self-talk Role Plays
Assessment #3 – Life Movie
Example #1
Example #2
Assessment #4 – Communication Media
Free Downloadable Resources
Student Workbook - changingthinking.com
Teacher’s Guide - changingthinking.com
Ultranet
Students comments about the Course
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