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At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
Welcome to JB Resources on TES!
At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
CBT: Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
Thought Diary for CBT
Refresher: Ellis’s ABC Model
CBT: Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
Behavioural Activation
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Activity: If this is the answer what is the question?
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Planning 16 Mark Questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
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Key Questions
Activity: Is this person abnormal?
Definition 1: Statistical Infrequency
Example: IQ and Intellectual Disability Disorder
Definition 2: Deviation from Social Norms
Example: Antisocial Personality Disorder
Definition 3: Failure to Function Adequately
Example: Intellectual Disability Disorder
Definition 4: Deviation from Ideal Mental Health
Jahoda’s Criteria of Ideal Mental Health (1958)
Video: Psychology Unlocked - Four ways to define abnormality
Evaluation activity
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
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Key questions
Video: Defining Disorders
Diagnosis in Psychology: The DSM-V
Specific Phobias in the DSM-V
Phobia Prevalence in the UK
Trypophobia
Activity: Fear or Phobia
Video: Khan Academy - Phobias
Behavioural Characteristics of Phobias
Panic
Avoidance
Endurance
Emotional Characteristics of Phobias
Anxiety
Fear
Unreasonable Emotional Response
Cognitive Characteristics of Phobias
Selective Attention to the Phobic Stimulus
Irrational Beliefs
Cognitive Distortions
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application questions
Plenary: Consolidation question
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05/07/2024 Update: This lesson has been enhanced with clearer objectives/outcomes, a thorough spelling and grammar check, added answers to all questions (including possible discussion answers), and aesthetic improvements for a better teaching and learning experience.
This comprehensive lesson adheres to the latest AQA A-Level Specification (June 2019) and may also be suitable for other specifications.
Key Content Includes:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
Video Task: Asch’s Line Experiment
Asch’s Procedure
Asch’s Findings
Class Discussion: Does Asch’s Research illustrate ISI or NSI?
Activity: Asch by Numbers
Information sheet: Asch’s Variation Experiments
Asch’s Variation Experiments
Activity: Concepts - The Big Night Out
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short Answer Question
Plenary: Discussion Question
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05/07/2024 Update: This lesson has been enhanced with clearer objectives/outcomes, a thorough spelling and grammar check, added answers to all questions (including possible discussion answers), and aesthetic improvements for a better teaching and learning experience.
This comprehensive lesson adheres to the latest AQA A-Level Specification (June 2019) and may also be suitable for other specifications.
Key Content Includes:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
What is Conformity?
The Three Types of Conformity: Compliance, Identification, Internalisation
Analysis of Levels of Conformity
Class Discussion: Why do people conform?
Deutsch and Gerrard's Two-Process Model
Informational and Normative Social Influence
Key Term Matching Activity
Real-life Application Concepts
Evaluation Worksheet and Points
Derren Brown's Replication of Asch’s Study
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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12/07/2024 Update: This lesson has been enhanced with clearer objectives/outcomes, a thorough spelling and grammar check, added answers to all questions (including possible discussion answers), and aesthetic improvements for a better teaching and learning experience.
This comprehensive lesson adheres to the latest AQA A-Level Specification (June 2019) and may also be suitable for other specifications.
Key Content Includes:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
Obedience to Authority
Video: Milgram’s Obedience Study
Milgram’s Background and Aim
Milgram’s Sample
Milgram’s Procedure
The Shock Machine
The Prods
Milgram’s Key Findings
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Activity: Concepts - Ethical Guidance
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation Question
Plenary: Discussion Question
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12/07/2024 Update: This lesson has been enhanced with clearer objectives/outcomes, a thorough spelling and grammar check, added answers to all questions (including possible discussion answers), and aesthetic improvements for a better teaching and learning experience.
This comprehensive lesson adheres to the latest AQA A-Level Specification (June 2019) and may also be suitable for other specifications.
Key Content Includes:
Lesson Objectives/outcomes
Milgram by numbers activity
Why did Milgram conduct variations?
Activity: Higher or Lower task
Proximity Variations
Location Variations
Uniform Variations
Exam Practice: Drawing a suitable graphical display
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Video: Obeying a man in uniform
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
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Key Questions
Aims of Drug Therapy
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
How SSRIs work
Video: 2-Minute Neuroscience – SSRIs
Activity: Fill in the Blanks
Combining SSRis work with Other Treatments
Alternative to SSRIs
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Video: Pure O
Video Questions
OCD in the DSM-V
Related Disorders
The OCD Cycle
Activity: Summary Activity
Behavioural Characteristics of OCD
Compulsions
Avoidance
Emotional Characteristics of OCD
Anxiety and Distress
Accompanying Depression
Guilt and Depression
Cognitive Characteristics of OCD
Obsessive Thoughts
Cognitive Strategies to Deal with Obsessions
Insight into Excessive Anxiety
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Questionnaires
Example Questionnaire: The MADRE (The Mannheim Dream Questionnaire)
Open and Closed Questions
Evaluation points: Questionnaires
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Questionnaires
Interviews
Unstructured Interviews
Structured Interviews
Semi-structured Interviews
Evaluation points: Interviews
Activity: Questionnaires or Interviews?
Exam Questions with Mark Scheme: Interviews
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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The Role of Mirror Neurons
Video: Dr. Dan Siegel - Explains Mirror Neurons
Mirror Neurons and Intention
Mirror Neurons and Perspective-taking
Mirror Neurons and Human Evolution
Mirror Neurons and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Planning 16 Mark Essays with Application
Activity: Cognition and Development Topic Review
Plenary: Consolidation Question
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Video: How do your hormones work?
The Endocrine system
Glands
Hormones
Video: The Science of Adrenaline
Fight of flight response
Physiological responses
The Nervous system: Parasympathetic and Sympathetic
Fight or flight vs. Rest and Digest
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Neurons
Parts of a Neuron Diagram
Activity: Label the parts of a Neuron
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: ‘Describe’ Question
Synaptic Transmission
Video: 2-Minute Neuroscience: Synaptic Transmission
The Four Key Steps of Synaptic Transmission
Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials and Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials
Types of Neurons: Motor, Sensory and Relay Neurons
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Outline, Short answer questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Brain Plasticity
Maguire et al.'s London Taxi Driver Study
Learning-induced Changes in The Brain
Structural Plasticity in the Bilingual Brain
Functional Recovery in the Brain
Video: Jody’s story
Video question sheet
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Activity: Concepts - The Case of Gabby Giffords
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key Questions
Hemispheric Lateralisation
Sperry’s Split-Brain Research (1968)
Video: Split-Brain Behavioural Experiments
Sperry et al.'s Procedure
Experiment 1: Describe what you see
Experiment 2: Recognition by touch
Activity: Summary Worksheet
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short Answer Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation Question
Plenary: Discussion question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Nervous System
Diagram of the Nervous System
The Central Nervous System
The Brain
The Cerebral Cortex
The Four Lobes
Gyri and Sulci
The Spinal Cord
The Peripheral Nervous System
The Somatic Nervous System
The Autonomic Nervous System
The Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System
Video: 2-Minute Neuroscience: Division of the Nervous System
Activity: Fill in the Diagram
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Describe Question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content included:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Electroencephalograph (EEG)
Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)
Post-Mortem Studies
Activity: Summary worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice Questions with Mark Scheme: Short Answer Questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Early theories of the Brain: Phrenology
Theories of Localisation vs. Holism
Hemispheres in the Brain
The Motor, Somatosensory, Visual and Auditory Centres
The Motor Cortex
The Somatosensory Cortex
The Visual Cortex
The Auditory Cortex
Language in the Brain
Broca’s Area
Wernicke’s Area
Video: Wernicke’s Aphasia
Video Activity: Language in the Brain
Video question worksheet
Activity: Key term match
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice with Mark Scheme: 8 Mark Question
Student response with Examiner commentary
Plenary: Discussion Question
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Video: How body clocks rule our lives.
Endogenous Pacemakers
The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)
The SCN and the Optic Nerve
The Pineal Gland and Melatonin
Animal Studies and the SCN
DeCoursey et al.'s chipmunk study (2000)
Ralph et al.'s mutant hamster study (1990)
Exogenous Zeitgebers
Light as an Exogenous Zeitgeber
Social cues as an Exogenous Zeitgeber
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
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Key Questions
Circadian Rhythms
Video: How does your body know what time it is?
The Sleep/Wake Cycle
Siffre’s Cave Studies (1962; 1972)
Aschoff & Wever’s WWII Bunker Study (1976)
Folkard et al.'s Cave Study (1985)
Activity: Summary worksheet
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 8 Mark Question with Application
Model Answer
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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