A whole AS/Year 1 AQA A Scheme of Work related to Topic 1: social Influence. PowerPoints, Class tasks, Work sheets and end of topic test is included. The SOW is based around the AS/1 Complete companion Cardwell & Flanagan, L1: What is Conformity: Students re-enact Asch's famous study with an unknowing student from another class.. L2: Evaluation of Asch's study L3: Explaining conformity: Students complete a group cheat sheet on 1 of 4 different explanations of conformity and share. Emphasis of the duel processing model is made. L4: Stanford Prison experiment: students use articles and real footage to introduce the role of social roles. L5: Obedience: Independent work and real footage is used to gain insight into the procedure and findings of Milgram's study. L6: Essay: Students are introduced to writing extended essays using PEEL. Students re-assemble an essay that unfortunately been cut up into pieces... L7: variations of Milgram's study: Students are introduced to the effects of other situational factors and evaluate. L8: Explanations of Obedience: Agentic state and Legitimate Authority L9: Authoritarian Personality: Students complete the F-scale and are introduced to dispositional factors of obedience. L10: Resisting social influence L11: Locus of control L12 and 13: Students watch a copy of 12 angry men to illustrate concepts so far and introduce minority influence L14: Students complete a end of topic test. Model answers for self reflection are provided.

A complete research methods unit based around the new AQA A AS level syllabus. Fifteen lessons including PowerPoints (with lesson instructions), class activities, worksheets, articles and homeworks. (based around the AS complete companion AS/1 Fourth edition Cardwell & Flanagan) 1) Forming a Hypothesis (using a simple reaction time experiment) 2) Control Vs realism (introduction to the scientific method and vocabulary) 3) Experimental problems (introduction to demand characteristics and investigator effects) 4)Experimental Design (card sort of the designs and evaluations) 5) Sampling methods (class 'sampling pizza rotation task) 6) Types of experiment (Natural Vs Quasi) 7) Observation studies- Students design an observational experiment 8 + 9 ) Ethical issues (Students discuss the most unethical psychological experiments in history using a card sort) 10) Self reports (introduction to questionnaires and interviews) 11) Constructing a questionnaire 12) Central tendency (more lecture style) 13) Correlation studies (students collect data regarding themselves and spot trends) 14)Inferential testing (students practice the S-test) 15) Peer review

An Alevel SOW designed to introduce students to the AQA A specification. Students are introduced to the key skills needed to be successful in Psychology all applied to the schizophrenia unit (from Year 13). SOW includes PowerPoints, resources and assessment (to support green hair textbook). Perfect for the first two weeks of lessons. 1 introduction to the subject, course handbook and specification L2 Academic reading and using the textbook L3 Applying evaluation A03 skills and A02 Apply skills L4 Mathematical skills in psychology L5 Describing scientific theories Part 1 L6 Using scientific theories part 2 L7 Writing essays in psychology and the feedback form L8 Independent research skills L9 Revision skills in psychology L10 Assessment

PowerPoints and worksheets that focus on the AO1, AO2 and AO3 objective criteria to the latest AQA A specification. The Scheme of work consists of easy to use PowerPoints and worksheets as well as activities such as a jelly brain dissection, neuron carousel experiment and end of topic assessment.