Lesson 4 - Lesson goes through Bartett's War of the Ghost - with worksheet and evaluation. Influence of schemas on memory. Application based plenary.

Powerpoint slides going through the main features of the cognitive and biological approach and Wundt's contribution to psychology. These were made for last revision - lecture style lessons. They would make good starting points when planning lessons as most of the content is on there. You would need to add little activities/mini plenaries or video clips etc, and evaluation will need to be added in more detail if these were to become full lessons

Lesson 2: Full lesson looking into Shaffer and Emmerson's stages of attachment. Includes reference to original study and activity where students identify the child's stage of attachment, burger evaluation activity. Lesson concludes with mini whiteboard plenary to check progress.

First full lesson with Y12 - Goes through the course layout. Introduces Wundt, introspection and the emergence of psychology as a scientific subject. Students then create an obituary column or speech to be read at Wundt's funeral. Mini whiteboard plenary (ABCD, TRUE/FALSE) to check progress.

A booklet to accompany the teaching of the social influence unit of AQA psychology. Includes specification checklist for students to monitor progress through the course. Booklet covers all key content on studies/theories (Asch, Milgram, Zimbardo etc) as well as having activities for students to complete. Includes activities to complete (we use the Catbook but any textbook will be fine). The price relfects the amount of work and effort that went into creating this resources. 27 pages in total. Includes papst paper questions at the end. Excellent to use for flipped learning before teaching or revision.

Lesson 7 - Discusses the influence of context on memory. Looks at Godden and Baddley study- mini experiment with students learning words in and out of the classroom. Homework - spelling test. Application plenary.

Lesson 4: Methods of control, standardised procedure, counterbalancing, random allocation (also squeezed piloting on at the end). Practical activity where students are randomly allocated to be given a sweet or not. Application to research investigation where students are asked to apply which methods of control must be used as a plenary exercise.

A-Level issues and debates - holism and reductionism debate. Work sheet on biological and environmental reductionism. All content and evaluation is on powerpoint.

Starter - recap process of synaptic transmission. Teacher quick goes through function of SSRI's and BZ. Then students create medication boxes for the different treatments, including how they work, supporting evidence and side effects. Including evaluation (I print of the slides for students to use). Students enjoyed this lesson.

Approx 3 lessons. Introduce them to the exams awaiting them at the end of the year. Recap Darwin and evolutionary theory, concepts of anisogamy, sexual selection theory (inter and intra). Video clips to help illustrate concepts. Read the conclusion from Buss' article. Evaluation Clark and Hatfield, Singh etc. Agony Aunt activity where students must use knowledge to explain why couples may prefer other partners (eg wife has left me for a man who is younger, more active and taller). Barbie article for further reading. - Content from pink haired girl book.

First lesson on memory - going through expectations, input, encoding, storage retrieval. Discussing why memory important for survival. (50 min)

Lesson 6 - Goes through retro and proactive interference. Includes evaluation and examples and questions.

Lesson looks at the social and dispositional factors influencing conformity. Key Study: Asch, my students enjoyed spotting the differences activity. Students learn factors by doing carousel activity or it can be done teacher lead.

THIS IS NOT A LESSON. These are the resources I printed in colour and displayed with the suffragette newspapers to end the social influence unit.

A powerpoint and small work booklet that covers the idiographic and nomothetic debate in psychology. Students can work through booklet - powerpoint accompanies this and provides teacher answers and further evaluation. Also includes 6 mark question with model answer.

Whole lesson. The first lesson of the year delivered to Y12. It gives an outline of the course, equipment and attitude checklist. Then moves on the origins of psychology, introspection and psychology as science with evaluation. Mini whiteboard (ABCD/TRUE-FALSE Plenary to check progress). - I also hand out the Y12 content checklist at this point and ask them to tick of Wundt at the end.

Lesson 2 on relationships - looking at Self Disclosure as an aspect of SPT. Colour coding evaluation activity where students must match the evidence and link to the original point to create fully developed evaluation. Mini whiteboard plenary (ABCD/True-False). - Content mainly from pink haired girl book

Created to address the phobias section of AQA AS specification for Unit 2. Bundle contains 3 lessons (approx 3-4 hours). Also useful for Y13 revision. Lesson 1: Characteristics of phobias -Students watch an episode of Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures to complete the emotional, cognitive and behavioural characteristics of phobias (students enjoyed this) Lesson 2: Behaviourist explanation of phobias - two process model. Includes evaluation (SLT, Preparedness etc). Lesson 3: Behaviourist treatments (flooding and SD). Student task is to create an information leaflet. Evaluation is included throughout and the episodes of the programme are really good for discussion the characteristics, explanation and treatments as well as definitions of abnormality. All information is on powerpoint so good for non-specialists also. Lots of videos - links in notes section.

Lesson 5 - Students recreate Loftus and Plamers car crash study. Watch a TED talks video (17 min) about false memories with set questions and answers. Evaluation of false memories and twitter plenary.