1. Psychology Life Hack of the Week
Want to feel calmer? New research suggests that deliberately scaring yourself (attending an ‘extreme’ haunted attraction) can boost mood and energy and lessen stress (Margee et al., 2018)

2. Did you complete the exam practice questions on last week’s handout?
Is your revision material for research methods up-to-date?
You will have a SHORT in-class test on experimental research methods in the week commencing:
26th November

3. Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time
Add your target grade
Summarise WWW and EBI on your feedback sheet.
Make 1-3 improvements to your work (e.g. re-write parts, answer questions, make corrections, etc.)

4. Starter: Let’s play taboo!
Pick a card and roll the dice. You must communicate the key concept on the card without using the three related terms underneath. 1 point for a correct guess; lose a point if you use one of the words on the card.
Describe it
Act it
Model it
Draw it
Choose how to taboo
Mime it

5. Graphs and charts are descriptive statistics too!

6. The Normal Distribution
Use your knowledge of the properties of normal distributions to answer question 1 on page 3.
Finished? Have a go at question 2.
Mean
Median
Mode

7. c) 50 (the same as the mean).
a. Percentage of UK population with scores between 100 and 115 = 68 /2 = 34%
Question 2
136 (68% of 200 = 68/100 × 200)
b) 32 (16% of 200 = 16/100 × 200)
c) 50 (the same as the mean).
b. 95% of population fall between 100 – 30 (2 SDs) = 70 and (2 SDs) = 130
c. Approx. percentage of population with scores above 115 = (99.7/2 = 49.85) – (68/2 = 34) = = 16%
Mean IQ = 100
1 SD = 15

8. Strictly Come Statistics!

9. A different set of judges …1 2 3 4 5 9 10

10. A different set of judges …1 2 3 7 8 9 10

11. Skewed Distributions
Negative Skew Scores at the higher end of the data. The curve has a tail on the left.
Mode > Median > Mean
E.g. scores on a very easy test
Positive Skew Scores cluster at the lower end of the data. The curve has a tail on the right. Mode < Median < Mean
E.g. scores on a very difficult test

12. Assess Your Learning:

13. Graphical Displays Identify each of the displays below.
When would you use each of them?

14. Which graphical display would be most appropriate to represent the following: a bar chart, a histogram or a line graph?
Comparing the changes in body temperature of two people over the course of a day.
The difference in average annual rainfall between Manchester and Paris.
The frequency of people who chose ‘snow’ as their favourite weather condition broken down into sub-categories of age.

15. Task Time: Exam Practice
In pairs/threes, answer the question below – use the piece of A3 squared paper.

16. Mark the Answer
Swap answers and use the criteria below.

17. Apply Your Knowledge – page 7
Identify which type of graphical display should be created, justifying your decisions.
Create the appropriate graphical displays.
Interpret the results of the graphical displays to draw conclusions.
Finished? Complete the exam practice questions on descriptive statistics and distributions (page 7-8)

19. Plenary: Post a Question
In pairs/small groups, write down ONE question based on ONE of the learning objectives for today’s session.
This will be ‘sent’ to another class