AQA GCSE Psychology - Research Methods Lesson 1-5

This bundle contains the first five lessons in the topic of Research Methods from the AQA GCSE in Psychology 8182.

Personally, I don’t teach this topic all in one go, but rather I interleave them through the other topics as each lesson becomes relevant to the students’ learning.

Lessons included:

1. Hypotheses and variables (writing hypotheses, understanding independent and dependent variables as well as operationalisation of the varaibles).
2. Extraneous variables (understanding how to limit extraneous variables as well as employing standardised procedure and using randomisation).
3. Types of experiment (natural, laboratory and field experiments).
4. Experimental designs (quantitative and qualitative methods, independent groups, matched pairs and repeated measures).
5. Sampling methods (random, volunteers, systematic, stratified, opportunity).