AQA Psychology: Operationalisation (operational definitions) of Variables
Research Methods
Basic PowerPoint on Operationalisation
Information sheet with student activity.
A Level Psychology AQA
Straighforward lesson:
Powerpoint: table giving an overview features of the different types of experiments: lab, quasi, field and natural.
Using the table, two activity sheet to guess what type of experiment it is.
AQA A-level Psychology BRILLIANT MODEL ANSWERS: Gender: Covering all exam type questions (over 80 model answers!)
Content for Gender
Important information
Exam skills
Specification: Gender
MODEL ANSWERS FOR:
Sex and gender
Androgyny and the Bem Sex Role Inventory
The role of chromosomes and hormones
Atypical sex chromosome patterns
Cognitive explanations: Kohlberg’s Theory
Cognitive explanations: Gender schema theory
Psychodynamic explanations of gender development
Social learning explanations of gender development
Culture and media influences on gender development
Answers to identification questions
AQA A-level Psychology BRILLIANT MODEL ANSWERS: Schizophrenia: Covering all exam type questions (over 60 model answers!)
Content for Schizophrenia
Important information
Exam skills
Specification: Schizophrenia
MODEL ANSWERS FOR:
Classification of schizophrenia
Reliability and validity in diagnoses and classification of schizophrenia
Biological explanations of schizophrenia
Psychological explanations of schizophreni
Drug therapies
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Management of schizophrenia
An interactionist approach
Answers to identification questions
To exchange or not to exachange?
A fun whole class lesson on IV and DV
Instructions for activity:
Cut out each study and the keywords that have the IV and DV. Mix them up and then randomly give each student one study slip and one keyword IV/DV slip (that does not belong to the study).
The students will need to read the study and attempt to identify the IV and DV.
Next, the students will need to get up and mingle with each other and find the correct IV and DV slip of paper for their study (which another student has). Once the student has found the correct IV and DV, they swap the IV and DV slip of paper (they keep their study).
Now that the student has the correct (assuming it is correct) they need to identify which is the IV and which is the DV.
Even though the students exchange the IV and DV slips of paper, one will still have slip that belongs to someone else.
A number of activities for the different types of experiments.
Jelly Bean Activity
Sorting out activity between lab and field experiments
Field experiments activity
Field experiment question
Field experiment questions
General experiments questions
Table fill in activity
Fill in the blank
Natural experiment worksheet 1
Natural experiment -worksheet 2
Guess what type of experiment
**** AQA Psychology : Social Influence:
Explanations of Conformity: Exam Notes and Model Answers****
Full Exam Notes for 'Explanations of Conformity’ with detailed evaluation.
Exam questions with model answers on ‘Explanations of Conformity’. These include:
* Identification questions
* Short response questions
* Application questions
* Essays
**** AQA Psychology : Social Influence: Types of Conformity: Exam Notes and Model Answers****
Full Exam Notes for 'Types of Conformity’ with detailed evaluation.
Exam questions with model answers on ‘Types of Conformity’. These include:
* Key terms (3 questions)
* Short response questions (9 questions)
* Application questions (2 questions
Revision Check List for A-Level Psychology (Year 1 and a bit of Year 2).
Social Influence
Memory
Attachments
Psychopathology
Approaches
Biopsychology
Research Methods
Lesson can be used as ‘learning material’
Summary
An engaging whole class activity, where questions are set from a PowerPoint, which require students to find the correct answer from the information. First student/pair who gets the correct answer, win.
Resources
Miniature whiteboards, board marker pens, wipes, and worksheet A (enough for each pair/student)
Instructions
Give each person or pair of students (same table) a miniature whiteboard, board marker pen, a wipe, and worksheet A.
Give out the worksheet A for each student/pair and ask the students to read page 1 (study 1) ONLY (no need to go further). While they are reading, make sure you have the PowerPoint questions ready to be shown on a whiteboard display.
For each page (study) there are several questions. Display the first question from the PowerPoint to the students. For each question it will tell you how many correct words they are looking from the information sheet (this is shown in brackets underneath the question). Once they have found the correct number of words, they right this down on the white board.
The first student/pairs to display the answer above their head wins. They get one point. You will need to keep a score.
Go through all the questions set for page 1. At the left-hand bottom corner on the PowerPoint, you will see ‘End of Questions’ on some of the slides. This means there are no more questions to be asked for that page on the information sheet. The students will now need to read the next information page (e.g., page 2). Once they have read this the next questions are given and so on.
A number of different resources that you can use:
Powerpoint
Exam notes template
Ainsworth study template
What is being tested activity
Episodes activity
Identify correct attachment type
Real life application question
A varierty of resources:
Powerpoint - Basic outline of behavioural explanation
Powerpoint - Basic evaluation - for weak students
A variety of activities
Self-study booklet
A-Level Psychology (AQA)
Unit: Social Influence
Topic: The authoritarian Personality
Resource: Adorno’s Fascism Test (30 questions with personality classification)
AQA A Level Psychology: Design of Questionnaires
Releasing a lot of my resources. A variety of different activities / worksheet you can use with your students.
**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches in Psychology: Humanistic Approach: Exam Notes and Model Answers
Full set of Exam Notes (AO1 + AO3)
Model Answers (11)
key terms /multiple choice questions
short response questions
application questions
16 marker questions
**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches in Psychology: Cognitive Approach: Exam Notes and Model Answers
Full set of Exam Notes (AO1 + AO3)
Model Answers (12)
key terms /multiple choice questions
short response questions
application questions
16 marker questions