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At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
Welcome to JB Resources on TES!
At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
This Psychology of Attraction Quiz can be used as a fun activity in Psychology classes or is especially great for valentine’s day.
This resources includes a PowerPoint true of false quiz with questions based on the psychology of attraction and romantic relationships. All questions and answers are supported by a psychological research study (journals and articles are linked and can be used as further reading).
There is an answer sheet included for students to follow along with reflection questions at the end which could be used to prompt interesting class discussions!
05/07/2024 Update: This lesson has been enhanced with clearer objectives/outcomes, a thorough spelling and grammar check, added answers to all questions (including possible discussion answers), and aesthetic improvements for a better teaching and learning experience.
This comprehensive lesson adheres to the latest AQA A-Level Specification (June 2019) and may also be suitable for other specifications.
Key Content Includes:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
What are Social Roles?
Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)
Video: Philip Zimbardo: A Study of Evil
Zimbardo’s Procedure
Zimbardo’s Findings: The Guards and The Prisoners
Activity - Class Discussion - Conclusions from the SPE
Exam Practice with Student Answer: Short Answer Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Model Answer: Evaluation Question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content included:
Key Questions
The Genetic Basis of Schizophrenia
Family Studies
Gottesman’s Research (1991)
Candidate Genes (Ripke et al., 2014)
The Dopamine Hypothesis
Hyperdopaminergia in the Subcortex
Hypodopaminergia in the Subcortex
Summarising The Dopamine Hypothesis
Neural Correlates of Negative Symptoms
Neural Correlates of Positive Symptoms
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice: Essay Question with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Consolidation Question
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Freud’s Psychodynamic Approach
Key Assumptions of The Psychodynamic Approach
The Role of The Unconscious
The Preconscious Mind
The Structure of Personality: Tripartide Structure
Defence Mechanisms
Activity: Concepts - Defence Mechanisms
Video: Defence Mechansims
The Psychosexual Stages
Exam questions with Mark Scheme: Short answer question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation question
Plenary: Discussion Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
How to Compare Approaches
Activity: Comparison Summary Table
Comparing the Biological Approach to the Behaviorist Approach
Model Comparison Paragraph
Exam practice: Comparison Essays
Comparing the Cognitive Approach to the Psychodynamic Approach
Structuring Comparison Essays
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Comparison Essay
Mark scheme
Model Comparison Paragraph
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Key Assumptions of the Humanistic Approach
Psychology and Free Will
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Self-actualisation
The Self and Congruence
Incongruence
Congruence
Conditions of Worth vs. Unconditional Positive Regard
Video: Roger’s Person-Centred Approach to Counselling
Activity: Key Term Define
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Multi-Choice Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 16 Mark Essay with Application
Examiner Commentary
Activity: Essay Planning Activity
Plenary: Consolidation activity
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Key Assumptions of Behaviourism
Classical Conditioning (CC)
Pavlov’s Research
CC Key Terminology
Operant Conditioning (OC)
Video: The difference between classical and operant conditioning
OC Key terminology
Activity: Key term Match
Skinner’s Research
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice: Short answer, Evaluation Questions with Mark Schemes
Plenary: Discussion Question
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Key content included:
Key Questions
Drug Therapies for Schizophrenia
Typical Antipsychotics
How do Typical Antipsychotics work?
Atypical Antipsychotics
Clozapine
Risperidone
Activity: Summary - Typical vs. Atypical Antipsychotic drugs
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice: 8 Mark Question with Mark Scheme
Video: Schizophrenia - what’s in my head?
Plenary: Consolidation question
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Key content included:
Key Questions
Video: Treating Schizophrenia with CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
How does CBT help sufferers?
CBT - A Case Example
Family Therapy
How does Family Therapy help Sufferers?
Token Economies
Tokens
Rewards
Activity: Check Your Knowledge Questions
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice: 8 Mark Question with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Consolidation Question
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Key assumptions from the Behaviourist Approach
Mowrer’s Two-Process Model (1960)
Activity: Classical Conditioning
Fear Acquisition via Classical Conditioning
Phobia Maintenance via Operant Conditioning
Activity: Concepts - Zelda’s Fear of Dogs
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Video: How fear drove human evolution
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key Questions
Video: What is Depression?
Diagnostic Features of Depression
Depression in the DSM-V
Behavioural Characteristics of Depression
Activity Levels
Disruption of Sleep and Eating Behaviour
Aggression and Self-harm
Emotional Characteristics of Depression
Lowered Mood
Anger
Lowered Self-esteem
Cognitive Characteristics of Depression
Poor Concentration
Dwelling on The Negative
Absolutist Thinking
Video: What does depression feel like?
Activity: Behavioural, Emotional or Cognitive?
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question, Short answer questions
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Behavioural Treatment of Phobias
Treatment 1: Systematic Desensitisation
The Anxiety Hierarchy
Relaxation Techniques are Taught
Exposure to Phobic Stimulus
Treatment 2: Flooding
Activity – Concepts Ailurophobia (Fears of cats)
Evaluation points
Evaluation worksheets
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Biological Approach to Explaining OCD
Genetic Explanations of OCD
Family Studies
Candidate Genes
OCD is Polygenic
Different types of OCD
Neural Explanations of OCD
The Role of Serotonin
Decision-Making Systems
Activity: Concepts - Jack
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 16 Mark Essay with Application
Activity: Planning worksheet
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Minority Influence
The Three Processes of Minority Influence
Consistency: Synchronic and Diachronic
Video: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Minister & Civil Rights Activist | Biography
Commitment
Flexibility
The Process of Change: Deeper Processing
The Snowball Effect
Activity - Methods: Moscovici’s Blue-Green Slide Study
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Student response example with Examiner commentary
Model answer
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Authoritarian Personality
The F-Scale
Adorno’s Findings
Adorno’s Conclusions
Origins of The Authoritarian Personality
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Dispositional Explanations for Obedience
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 8 Mark Question
Model Content and Evaluation Paragraphs
Video: The Political Science that explains Trump
Activity: Question sheet
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
What is Social Change?
The Special Role of Minority Influence
Drawing Attention
Consistency
Deeper Processing
The Augmentation Principle
The Snowball Effect
Social Cryptomnesia
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions
Activity: Concepts - Tackling Obesity
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Planning 8 Mark Questions
Plenary: Consolidation question
Activity: Topic Recap
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson Objectives/outcomes
Activity: Murdock's Memory Test
Primacy and Recency Effects
Murdock's Serial Position Curve Study (1962)
Aim, Method, Findings and Conclusions
How Findings Support to Multi-Store Model
Activity: Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation Points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Extended Response Question
Mark Breakdown
Activity: Marking Student Answers
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Cognitive Approach
Key Assumptions
Theoretical Models
Computer Models
Video: Are brains like computers?
The Role of Schema
Example of a schema for a chair
The Emergence of Cognitive Neuroscience
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Key assumptions of the Biological Approach
The Brain vs. The Mind
The Genetic Basis of Behaviour
Twin Studies
Video: What identical twins separated at birth teach us about genetics
Genotype and Phenotype
Genotype
Phenotype
Activity: Apply it - Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Evolutionary and Behaviour
Exam practice: Application Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice: Comparison Essay with Mark Scheme
Example Comparison Paragraph
Plenary: Discussion question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Philosophical roots
Wilhelm Wundt
Controlled Methods
Freud’s Psychodynamic Approach
The Behaviourist Approach
The Humanistic Approach
The Cognitive Approach
Social Learning Theory
the Biological Approach
Cognitive Neuroscience
Activity: Summarising the Approaches
Worksheet: Timeline Activity
Video: Is Psychology a Science?
The Emergence of Psychology as a Science
Exam practice: 8 Mark Question with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Discussion Question
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