PSYCHOLOGY

BRAIN, BIOLOGY & Resources for Courses

EVALUATION
Activity Overview

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When evaluating biological explanations of smoking, students often provide generic evaluation (e.g. free will vs. determinism) and research
studies that are weakly linked to smoking (e.g. cocaine addiction in rats). While it is possible to draw on such examples, the evaluation must be
explicitly linked to the biological explanation of smoking. The purpose of this task is to provide you with clear examples of research that can be
used to form effective evaluation points.

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Resources Required
 Brain, Biology & Evaluation – Student Handout

Teacher Instructions
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It is always useful to provide a model answer for your students so that they understand the purpose of this task and how evaluation points are

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developed. Provide your students with a copy of the ‘Brain, Biology & Evaluation – Student Handout’. As your students to highlight, using three
different colours, the different statements to create four evaluation paragraphs. Alternatively, ask your students to cut out the boxes our and
work together in groups to sort the four evaluation points, before writing their own evaluation summaries.
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Brain, Biology & Evaluation – Student Handout

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Task: Below are four evaluation paragraphs for the biological explanation of smoking; however, they are not in the correct order. Using four
different colour highlighters,
highlight the statements
within each column to form

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four effective evaluation
points. The first one has been
done for you.

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Brain, Biology & Evaluation – Teacher Answers

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