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After achieving an A* in 2017, I am sharing my quality revision notes, essays, templates and tactics to help ambitious students reach their goals. These resources have proven a hit across the globe with students and teachers alike - download yourself to see why!
Chat with me on twitter @astarlevels or just drop me an email... happy revising!
This is a collection of exam questions for the new AQA Psychology specification (2016) focused on the topic of attachment.
The questions are usefully grouped so that once you have revised the topic you can test yourself on a range of questions that have appeared in the past, giving you ample opportunities to get familiar with the types of questions the exam board have asked in the past and no doubt will again.
Even students who can recite their notes off by heart may struggle to achieve the top grades because they have poor exam technique, but this workbook is the ideal resource to improve exam technique simply by practicing!
I have meticulously gone through past papers for the old specification and carefully selected the most relevant questions to the new spec, allowing students to prepare for exam questions that are likely to reappear.
I also have these workbooks for cognitive, social psychology and psychopathology-
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cognitive-memory-exam-question-workbook-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684151
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/social-psychology-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684168
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/psychopathology-revision-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684165
This is a collection of exam questions for the new AQA Psychology specification (2016) focused on the topic of psychopathology.
The questions are usefully grouped so that once you have revised the topic you can test yourself on a range of questions that have appeared in the past, giving you ample opportunities to get familiar with the types of questions the exam board have asked in the past and no doubt will again.
Even students who can recite their notes off by heart may struggle to achieve the top grades because they have poor exam technique, but this workbook is the ideal resource to improve exam technique simply by practicing!
I have meticulously gone through past papers for the old specification and carefully selected the most relevant questions to the new spec, allowing students to prepare for exam questions that are likely to reappear.
I also have these workbooks for attachment, social psychology and cognitive-
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/attachment-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684162
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/social-psychology-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684168
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cognitive-memory-exam-question-workbook-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684151
This is a collection of exam questions for the new AQA Psychology specification (2016) focused on the topic of social psychology/ social influence.
The questions are usefully grouped so that once you have revised the topic you can test yourself on a range of questions that have appeared in the past, giving you ample opportunities to get familiar with the types of questions the exam board have asked in the past and no doubt will again.
Even students who can recite their notes off by heart may struggle to achieve the top grades because they have poor exam technique, but this workbook is the ideal resource to improve exam technique simply by practicing!
I have meticulously gone through past papers for the old specification and carefully selected the most relevant questions to the new spec, allowing students to prepare for exam questions that are likely to reappear.
I also have these workbooks for attachment, memory and psychopathology-
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/attachment-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684162
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cognitive-memory-exam-question-workbook-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684151
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/psychopathology-revision-exam-question-booklet-a-level-psychology-aqa-new-spec-11684165
A useful table that summarises key differences between obedience and conformity
Page 2 then gives more detailed explanations of these integral behaviours in social psychology.
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Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
The evolutionary explanations for partner preferences, including the relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Top down approach (including organised and disorganised types of offender)
Four stages of constructing an FBI profile
Bottom up approach (including investigative psychology and geographical profiling)
Key variables of BU
Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two approaches [fantastic knowledge to enter exam with!]
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality; cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Theories of romantic relationships: social exchange theory, equity theory and Rusbult’s investment model of commitment, satisfaction, comparison with alternatives and investment. Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown: intra-psychic, dyadic, social and grave dressing phases.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
3 Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: self-disclosure; physical attractiveness, including the matching hypothesis; filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Dealing with offending behaviour: the aims of custodial sentencing and the psychological effects of custodial sentencing. Recidivism. Behaviour modification in custody. Anger management and restorative justice programmes
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Problems defining crime
Ways of measuring crime - official stats, victim surveys, offender surveys
Multi disciplinary approach
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific ‘absorption addiction’ questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
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Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Virtual relationships in social media: self-disclosure in virtual relationships; effects of absence of gating on the nature of virtual relationships.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing. Plus detailed high level evaluation.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Definition
Neural correlates of positive symptoms + evaluation
Neural correlates of negative symptoms + evaluation
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
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Specifically includes:
The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia; the diathesis stress model. Plus evaluation.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Cognitive behaviour therapy and family therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia. Token economies as used in the management of schizophrenia.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Hyper and hypo dopaminergia
Supporting evidence for the theory
Ethical considerations
Further evaluation
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics, the dopamine hypothesis and neural correlates.
…Evaluation of each as well as plenty of examples and studies.
Detailed summary sheet makes this summary sheet suitable for students aiming for an A* in AQA A Level Psychology
Concise and easy to learn style makes it beneficial for all abilities
Everything you need for this topic right here!
Challenging set of AQA style questions on page 2 that relate to the summary sheet and directly to the specification.
Easy to mark the questions as answers are on summary sheet…
Best used as a handout in class or for revision. The brilliant set of questions means students can reinforce what they’ve learnt with specific questions, meaning they are well prepared for the exam.
Specifically includes:
Typical and Atypical antipsychotics
How each drug works
Evaluation of each drug - evidence for effectiveness, problems with evidence for effectiveness, relation to the dopamine hypothesis, serious side effects and the chemical cosh argument