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Product reviews for AS Level Psychology
Chris Hodson
This book is exactly what it claims to be: a student's handbook which should also have a wide appeal to overworked, hard pressed teaching staff. It covers the new specification fully and includes both well established Key Studies, such as Holmes and Rahe and the Stanford Prison study (how we love them !) and also includes a good deal of pertinent recent research material, up to and including 2007. The amount of good new material is unusual in an AS text and the authors should be commended for taking their readers (staff and students) seriously and not just trotting out the usual suspects.
As an experienced teacher I would recommend it as the class text because it is so thorough and consistently draws the student back to the examination requirements without becoming boring. I loved the "Ask the Examiner" sections!
The book is user friendly, using a range of eye catching strategies without being patronising as the content is academically sound and clearly explained. The section on research Methods, placed correctly as the first section, rather than hidden at the end, is one of the most accessible I have come across. It takes the trouble to explain the how and why of psychological research, rather than presenting a set of technical instructions about how to do research and therefore the manner in which it is presented should prevent the student from switching off after 2 or 3 paragraphs.
The whole text is clearly laid out, with a good and varied range of stimulus material to keep the students attention. I also found the topic colour coding useful, "Section two/yellow pages" should save a good deal of time.
This clearly written text has the virtues of being both accessible to less able students and also presents stimulating material to encourage the more able to further study, with sensible and accessible texts listed at the end of each chapter.
With the scarcity of both time and resources this text will allow teachers to use existing resources and build upon them with the new material.
As an experienced teacher I would recommend it as the class text because it is so thorough and consistently draws the student back to the examination requirements without becoming boring. I loved the "Ask the Examiner" sections!
The book is user friendly, using a range of eye catching strategies without being patronising as the content is academically sound and clearly explained. The section on research Methods, placed correctly as the first section, rather than hidden at the end, is one of the most accessible I have come across. It takes the trouble to explain the how and why of psychological research, rather than presenting a set of technical instructions about how to do research and therefore the manner in which it is presented should prevent the student from switching off after 2 or 3 paragraphs.
The whole text is clearly laid out, with a good and varied range of stimulus material to keep the students attention. I also found the topic colour coding useful, "Section two/yellow pages" should save a good deal of time.
This clearly written text has the virtues of being both accessible to less able students and also presents stimulating material to encourage the more able to further study, with sensible and accessible texts listed at the end of each chapter.
With the scarcity of both time and resources this text will allow teachers to use existing resources and build upon them with the new material.
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16/06/2008 01:00
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