Maths for A level Psychology

Resources designed to support the maths requirements in A level Psychology

• Sampling and types of data

• Levels of Data
• Introduction to sampling
• Sampling with Beyonce
• Comparing sampling methods
• Types of sampling card match
• Which sampling technique?

• Representations of data

  These are optional activities for students to become more familiar with different representations of data. They will not have seen a dot plot in GCSE so 'What's in a Name?' is useful for that because dot plots appear in later activities in this collection.

• What’s in a Name?
• American Time Use Survey
• Misleading graphs

• Descriptive statistics (central tendency and dispersion)

• Calculating descriptive statistics
• How has slow breathing affected our mood?
• 'How are you?' before and after activity data collection
• Stroop experiment histogram
• Stroop Experiment dot plot and box plot
• Who should we appoint?
• How many jelly beans?
• How many jelly beans?*
• How good is your memory?

• Distributions

• The Shape of Distributions
• Distributions and measures of central tendency
• How tall are you - discussing distributions
• Psychology experiment data collection

• Test core skills

• Milgram's Obedience Study
• Core Skills - satisfaction with life
• Multiple choice quiz

• Meaning of 'significant at p<0.05'

• Smelling Parkinson's short activity

• Sign Test

• Behind the sign test critical values table
• What is your preference - new or classic?
• Simplified version: Has there been a change in mood?
• Experiment: Has there been a change in mood?

• Wilcoxon signed-rank test

• Do breathing exercises affect anxiety?

• Correlation

• Quality Street: Do you agree with the Nation's favourites?
• Short version of Quality Street: Do you agree with the Nation's favourites?
• Hypothesis Testing: Are You Good at Ranking Films?
• Hypothesis testing: Firework Factory
• The Lemon Test (Cotton Wool Ball)
• The Lemon Test (Licks)
• Investigating relationships

• Chi-squared test

• Finding Associations
• Getting a sense of Chi-square
• Horror Movie Survival Chi-square test

• Selecting and using inferential tests (with own data)

• Which inferential test?
• Card match - steps in inferential tests
• Sign Test Calculator (Nominal Data)
• Sign test calculator (at least ordinal data)
• Chi-Squared Calculator
• Chi-Squared Calculator (some calculations required)
• Mann-Whitney U Test Calculator

• Further resources

• Equal Pay
• Income Inequality and Happiness