AQA Psychology A level (new 2015 Specification) Shop
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Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Designed for AQA but could be used for other boards. This is a booklet of activities the students work through for revision on research methods. I have included answers for the statistics section of the booklet.
Includes:
Hypotheses
Variables
Ethics
Sampling methods
Research methods
Validity
Reliability
Statistics
Data
Distributions
Features of Science
I have included a PDF version and a word version. The word version doesn’t always keep all its formatting when it is opened on different laptops so I would stick with the pdf version.
This was designed to work with a teacher presentation that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revision-for-research-methods-teacher-presentation-aqa-psychology-could-be-used-for-other-boards-11623128
Designed to recap the whole memory topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shorten notes for MSM, WMM, EWT, Types of LTM, Forgetting.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
Also included an applied activity to get them to apply their knowledge of memory concepts to 6 example scenarios.
I have also uploaded an attachment and Psychopathology one.
This is a full lesson and homework for the year 1 statistics part of the course. It has a ppt covering significance and the 5% level of probability as well as how to do a sign test.
It includes 3 examples of sign test studies to practise on including one where the students carry out their own study and collate the data to show the whole process. Note: One is tricky so can be an extension for stretch and challenge.
It also includes a homework sheet to practise sign tests, drawing conclusions and maths bits and another document of past sign test questions for more practise.
Answers/teacher copies are provided for the examples and homework.
A2 Stats lesson has also been uploaded and this can be bought as a bundle of all my first year lessons for RM.
Full lesson resources for a challenging part of research methods - Features of science.
There is a detailed 40 slide powerpoint and activities included.
Activities:
-An essay plan structure to help students plan this as an essay
-A table activity which is good for revision
-A notes sheet - I get students to fill this is out while I go through the powerpoint so they aren’t taking too many notes.
A really interactive session on Eye Witness Testimony with lots of activities and videos throughout the session. Includes having the students become “real” eye witnesses as well.
Designed for year 10/year 11 students as a taster for A level Psychology - could really be used with any exam board but was made with AQA in mind.
All instructions are in the notes sections of the ppt slides.
Adaptable in length - can last anywhere from 30 mins - 60 mins really depending on how many of the activities are done in the session.
Designed to recap the whole of first and second year biopsychology for AQA Psychology. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for all first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia and Issues and Debates for the other second year topics.
A series of revision activities for a summary lesson or revision lesson at the end of the topic.
1 - Key Term Cards. Great for playing bingo, describing to a partner, pictionary etc
2 - Crossword and answers
3 - brief points test
4 - applied exam questions
5 - blank summary table for students to complete
Resources for two-three lessons on the cognitive approach, includes vidoes, worksheets, activities and powerpoint.
Students have a notes sheet that they complete while going through the ppt.
1. Mental processes, including inferences and schema’s. This is packed with fun activities for students to try out to show them their mental processing (including loads of videos).
2. Comparing the mind to computers, cognitive neuroscience and evaluation of the cognitive approach (using the GHG book) and a match task to consolidate PEEL paragraphs.
Also included is some exam questions to use as a test for students and some good student responses and a summary crossword with answers. Plus a sample 16 mark answer essay.
Revision carousel activity independent lesson on Biopsychology. I print out the instructions for each station and then print the worksheets. I then instruct the students to work their around the room from station to station completing the activities. They should start with the area they are least confident with.
Activities are mostly summary tables but also includes playdough and making a localisation brain hat (link is here and on ppt for the brain resources - http://ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisphere-hat/)
Also available separately is a summary ppt covering the whole biopsychology module.
This is a very detailled presentation (47 slides) about approaching AQA exam questions.
It covers:
Evaluation
Comparison
Application
Terminology (e.g use of the words reliability and validity)
It gives advice and examples to demonstrate how to succeed in AQA exams. Great for a revision lesson with students.
Full topic summary for revision for AQA Psychology - Includes wundt, cognitive, biological, behaviourist, social learning theory, psychodynamic and humanism approaches.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes I make them complete the slide independently first, to see what they know before going through the teacher version.
There is a similar resource but with loads of exam questions and advice for answering them throughout on this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12814124
Designed to recap the whole attachment topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shorten notes for interactions, role of father, animal studies, strange situation, explanations, maternal deprivation, institutionalisation and influence of childhood attachment.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
If you like this the same revision powerpoints are available for the following topics and can be bought as bundles:
Memory
Social Influence
Psychopathology
Approaches
Biopsychology
Forensic
Schizophrenia
Gender
Issues and Debates
Designed to recap the whole issues and debates module for AQA Psychology 2015 spec.
Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete it before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for some first year topics and Gender, Forensic and Schizophrenia in second year topics.
For AQA Psychology Forensic Topic. This is a full lesson on Atavistic form (Lombroso’s explanation). It includes a fun activity which can be done for open evening- serial killer or psychologist (the descriptions should be stuck on the back of the photos for each card).
After covering the features of Lombroso’s theory they examine their picture to see if their criminal has any of those features.
Made for AQAPsychology A-level but could be easily adapted for other boards. This is a presentation I work through with my students while they are revising research methods - it includes over 60 slides (some with content and some with indications of a task to complete).
I usually teach short sections of research methods and then get them to complete the activities in the corresponding booklet.
This took me 3-4 lessons of 90 minutes each to complete it all but some could be set for homework.
This includes a sample essay on designing research and a summary table for features of science which are areas students often struggle with.
The corresponding booklet can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/research-methods-revision-booklet-of-activities-28-pages-aqa-psychology-11623089?theme=0
For AQA Psychology. Full lesson and homework exam questions for the working model of memory, which takes me 1 hour 30 mins - 2 hours to complete. It covers all the key elements on the ppt and included is a notes sheet which the students complete as we work through the lesson to save on note taking.
Also included are ideas and resources for at least 4 experiments to try with the students to show them elements of the model (e.g word length effect, dual performance task, visual spatial sketchpad and articulatory suppression).
Numerous activities also included:
- A Match Task of Key Terms
- An Evaluation Card Sort/Match Task
- A Gap Fill
- Homework short answer Questions
- An Essay Plan for an Applied Essay
Designed to recap the whole of social influence for AQA Psychology. This includes, obedience, conformity, minority influence and resisting social influence. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards - often more detail is included in the notes of the powerpoint.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for most first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia & Issues and Debates for the second year topics.
This is based on an old game called You Say We Pay or Hot Seat.
The class is split into 2 or more teams. One member from one team comes to the front and sits in the “hot seat” with their back to the board. Their team mates have to describe the key term to the person in the “hot seat”. That team then has 1 minute to get as many words as they can. Then someone from the other team sits at the front and they have to get as many words as they can.
The resources included are:
A set of key terms covering the whole of the AQA Psychology RM course (over 100 words)
Two sets of the same key terms (over 150) including random Christmas words mixed in, as a fun game before Xmas holidays. I have included two sets of these same words, so it could be played twice with the same group as the words are in a different order.
An alternative way to use it:
Print the key terms instead and then get a student to describe as many as they can to the team to guess instead.
Or use them to play pictionary with the students
This lesson is about learning how to compare the approaches for the AQA Specification A2 topic.
It has a few activities comparing the approaches and goes through how to write comparison paragraphs instead of standard strengths and weaknesses.
It has a powerpoint, applied activities, notes sheet for students to use and several sample essays.
A document that examines what questions have been asked on previous topics before on AQA Psychology papers (Year 2 ones only).
It plots how many marks have been asked on each sub-topic and then colour codes the topics by how likely there is to be an exam question on them in the next exam:
Red - less likely
Green - Likely
Disclaimer: AQA does not follow a pattern with exam questions and there is every chance even the “red coded” areas can be asked. This is purely for teachers to use to devise mocks etc and I wouldn’t advise giving this to students.