Tricky Topics of GCSE - revision slides

A revision powepoint which can be printed as worksheets for some of the ‘tricky’ topics of GCSE which you can work through as a class or give to students to revise with. Each topic has either the content explained or broken down or an activity for students to complete (in many cases both)

Topics included are:

• Bartlett’s war of the ghosts study and theory of reconstructive memory (guided questions)
• Gregory and Gibson’s theories (fill in the gaps)
• structure and function of the nervous system (diagram completion and annotation from text)
• social and dispositional factors (social influence) (revision grid)
• Piaget’s stages (revision grid)
• Willingham’s learning theory (guided questions)
• Visual illusions (explanations)
• Scanning techniques (fill in the gaps and sorting task)
• brain development in the womb (images to describe)
• interviews, observations, case studies and questionnaires (sorting task and matching task)
• field natural and lab experiments (sorting task)
• types of data (MCQs)
• crowd and collective behaviour (guided questions)
• explanations for addiction and depression (guided questions)