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AQA GCSE Psychology: Evaluating the Research Methods of Key Studies
A common exam question is to evaluate a research method of a key study, this will be part of an essay. This resource prepares students for these questions by asking them to identify the research method of all key studies and then evaluating those, a handout is provided. All methodology have been checked against the AQA Scheme of Work where possible and will be updated. Evaluation wording has been taken from past mark schemes where possible.
AQA GCSE Psychology: Conduct a Study Booklet
This AQA GCSE Psychology: Conduct a Study Booklet outlines instructions for students to plan and conduct a simply experiment into the capacity of short-term memory. It has a checklist of what they need to plan out and instructions on how to deliver their experiment. On the final page is guidance on how to write a report about their study, this checklist covers as many things from the specification as possible and includes a challenge activity.
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AQA GCSE Psychology: Development Topic Bundle
This contains all 10 lessons in the Development topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Development Workbooklet.
Early brain development:
A basic knowledge of brain development, from simple neural structures in the womb, of brain stem, thalamus, cerebellum and cortex, reflecting the development of autonomic functions, sensory processing, movement and cognition. The roles of nature and nurture.
Piaget’s stage theory and the development of intelligence. The role of Piaget’s theory in education:
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development including concepts of assimilation and accommodation.
The four stages of development: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational. Application of these stages in education.
Development of conservation. McGarrigle and Donaldson’s ‘naughty teddy study’
Reduction of egocentricity. Hughes’ ‘policeman doll study’.
The effects of learning on development:
Dweck’s Mindset Theory of learning: fixed mindset and growth mindset. The role of praise and self-efficacy beliefs in learning.
Learning styles including verbalisers and visualisers.
Willingham’s Learning Theory and his criticism of learning styles.
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AQA GCSE Psychology: Memory Topic
This contains all 11 lessons in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Memory Workbooklet.
Processes of memory: encoding (input) storage and retrieval (output)
Different types of memory: episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory.
How memories are encoded and stored.
Structures of memory
The multi-store model of memory: sensory, short term and long term.
Features of each store: coding, capacity, duration.
Primacy and recency effects in recall: the effects of serial position.
Murdock’s serial position curve study.
Memory as an active process
The Theory of Reconstructive Memory, including the concept of ‘effort after meaning’.
Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study.
Factors affecting the accuracy of memory, including interference, context and false memories.