Easy psychology study for children

We are in lock down and I have decided to share some psychology study resources for children to have a go at.

Many questions I get asked when people find out I have studied psychology are:
How does my brain work?
Can you read me? (This one makes me laugh)


I think that it would be beneficial if children learnt more about the brain; how learning happens, how memory works, the different kinds of memories etc. I think it could help them with how they approach learning, exams and much more.

This is a simple study based on Murdoch's serial position curve.

In this time I  think it would be a great reason to call friends or family to be participants.

I hope you enjoy

Writing prompts for children.

Writing prompts for children:

Kids are human and are understandably worried and anxious about the coronavirus situation.

They may not feel like they can focus on school-work while there are big changes happening around them.

I have put together some writing prompts to help them focus on the beauty of the world around them, the things that are special to them and to get down on paper what they are feeling and what is inside of them. 

Parents: There are no right or wrong answers, overlook spellings and punctuation. This is about your child getting down on paper what is inside them.

 Give them a small notebook, it would be lovely to look back at the questions and answers in the future. 

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1.    Describe your family. Who are they? What do they do? What is special about them? 

2.    Describe your favourite place. Where is it? What does it look like? How does it make you feel when you visit your favourite place?

3.    Look out of your bedroom window and write about what you see. Take notice of the little things.

4.    What are you most thankful for?

5.    If you went to a desert island, what 3 items would you take and why?

6.    Who is your best friend and why? 

7.    What is your favourite animal and why? 

8.    Where is the place where you feel most safe? Why do you feel safe there?

9.    What is the best present you have ever received and why?

10. Who makes you smile? 

11.  Write about things that you do that makes people around you smile.

12.  Write about your favourite character from a book or film.

13.  Write about something you are proud of achieving.

14.  Write about someone who inspires you and why?

15.  What is your favourite food? Try and describe it to someone who cannot see? How does it look? How does it smell? Is it hard or soft?

16.  What makes you angry and why? 

17. If you were given 1 million pounds, what would you do with it?

18. What is your favourite colour? Think of as many things that you can that are that colour.

19. What do you want to be when you grow up? 

20. What would you like to learn about and why?