Bringing Psychology to Life for Prep Pupils

It’s been a busy and exciting half-term in the Psychology department. Six outstanding pupils have presented to the Psychology Society on topics ranging from Quantum Consciousness to Psycholinguistics. Each week the psychology classroom has been filled with pupils keen to extend their knowledge and understanding of Psychology beyond the specification. Particularly impressive have been our new Lower Sixth who have been brilliantly engaged, asking perceptive and insightful questions and taking detailed notes on each presentation. A big thank you to the following Sixth Form pupils for their outstanding presentations so far this term: Dina M, Lucy B, Anna P & Vicki M, Ellen C and Georgia H.

On Thursday, Upper Sixth Psychology pupils visited Year 1 and Year 3 pupils in the Prep School to conduct observations and see first-hand Piaget’s stages of development. Pupils performed a range of experiments testing children’s ability to conserve (understand that mass/volume/number stays the same even if the appearance changes) and egocentrism (ability to understand another’s point of view). It was certainly a fun afternoon for the Prep School students and a real opportunity for our U6 to see the psychological theory they will be learning about in the Cognition and Development topic come to life! The pupils will now apply their understanding of inferential statistics to analyse their data and present their findings in the form of a psychological report.