Nick & Bethan Redshaw's A-Level Psychology Resources
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Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
Written by leading teachers and authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES.
(Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 1 - Gender - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 8 - Sex and gender. Sex-role stereotypes. Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender. Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter’s syndrome and Turner’s syndrome.
Week 9 - Cognitive explanations of gender development, Kohlberg’s theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy; gender schema theory.
Week 10 - Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation.
Week 11 - Social learning theory as applied to gender development. The influence of culture
and media on gender roles.
Week 12 - Atypical gender development: gender identity disorder; biological and social explanations for gender identity disorder.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS - Option 2 - STRESS
Option 2 Stress - Learning Objectives
On completion of this Option you should be familiar with the following:
Week 1. The physiology of stress, including general adaptation syndrome, the hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal system, the sympathomedullary pathway and the role
Week 2. The role of stress in illness, including reference to immunosuppression and cardiovascular disorders.
Week 3. Sources of stress and Measuring Stress: life changes and daily hassles. Workplace stress, including the effects of workload and control. Measuring stress: self-report scales (Social Readjustment Ratings Scale and Hassles and Uplifts Scale) and physiological measures, including skin conductance response.
Week 4. Individual differences in stress: personality types A, B and C and associated behaviours; hardiness, including commitment, challenge and control.
Week 5. Managing and coping with stress: drug therapy (benzodiazepines, beta blockers), stress inoculation therapy and biofeedback. Gender differences in coping with stress. The role of social support in coping with stress; types of social support, including instrumental, emotional and esteem
support.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours and hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) are available here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Paper 2 Specification content for Research Methods
Teacher Reference: Summer 2016—Hi Nick and Bethan, it went brilliantly! Over 50 per cent of my 51 students got A grades – Inner London School with a high proportion of pupil premium students.
Paper 2 RESEARCH METHODS - Learning Objectives
On completion of this Topic you should be familiar with the following:
Click on Each link to view the full content covered:
Week 1 - The Experimental Methods
Week 2 - The Non-Experimental Methods
Week 3 Key Features of Science
Week 4 Data handling and analysis
Week 5 Ethics in Psychology
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 1 Relationships - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 1 -The evolutionary explanations for partner preferences, including the relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour.
Week 2 - Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: self-disclosure; physical attractiveness, including the matching hypothesis; filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity.
Week 3 - Theories of romantic relationships: social exchange theory, equity theory and Rusbult’s investment model of commitment, satisfaction, comparison with alternatives and investment. Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown: intra-psychic, dyadic, social and grave dressing phases.
Week 4 - Virtual relationships in social media: self-disclosure in virtual relationships; effects of absence of gating on the nature of virtual relationships.
Week 5 - Parasocial relationships: levels of parasocial relationships, the absorption addiction model and the attachment theory explanation.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom… The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES.
Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing!
Summer 2016—Hi Nick and Bethan, it went brilliantly! Over 50 per cent of my 51 students got A grades – Inner London School with a high proportion of pupil premium students.
Option 3 Aggression - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 21 - Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
1. Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression, including the roles of the limbic system serotonin and testosterone
2. Genetic factors in aggression, including the MAOA gene.
Week 22 - Ethological & evolutionary explanations of aggression
1. The ethological explanation of aggression, including reference to innate releasing mechanisms and fixed action patterns.
2. Evolutionary explanations of human aggression.
Week 23 - Social psychological explanations
1. The frustration-aggression hypothesis
2. Social learning theory as applied to human aggression
3. De-individuation
Week 24 - Institutional aggression
1. Situational explanations
2. Dispositional explanations
Week 25 - Media influences on aggression
1. The role of desensitisation, disinhibition and cognitive priming.
2. Media influences on aggression, including the effects of computer games.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 2 Eating Behaviour - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 15 -Explanations for Food Preferences
1. The evolutionary explanation, including reference to neophobia and taste aversion
2. The role of learning in food preference, including social and cultural influences
3. Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour, including the role of the hypothalamus, ghrelin and leptin.
Week 16 - Explanations for Anorexia Nervosa
1. Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa:
· family systems theory, including enmeshment, autonomy and control;
· social learning theory, including modelling, reinforcement and media;
· cognitive theory, including distortions and irrational beliefs.
Week 17 - Explanations for Obesity
1. Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition and the boundary model.
Week 18 - Dieting
1. Explanations for the success and failure of dieting
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks will also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students will receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page or contact us through Twitter
Written by leading teachers and authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 1 Cognition and Development - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 8 - Piaget’s theory of cognitive development: schemas, assimilation, accommodation, equilibration, stages of intellectual development. Characteristics of these stages, including object permanence, conservation, egocentrism and class inclusion.
Week 9 - Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development, including the zone of proximal development and scaffolding.
Week 10 - Baillargeon’s explanation of early infant abilities, including knowledge of the physical world; violation of expectation research.
Week 11 - The development of social cognition: Selman’s levels of perspective-taking; theory of mind, including theory of mind as an explanation for autism; the Sally-Anne study. The role of the mirror neuron system in social cognition.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom… The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Paper 2 Specification content for Biopsychollogy
*Teacher Reference: Summer 2016—Hi Nick and Bethan, it went brilliantly! Over 50 per cent of my 51 students got A grades – Inner London School with a high proportion of pupil premium students.
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Paper 2 BIOPSYCHOLOGY - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 1 - The Influence of genes on behaviour
The influence of genes on behaviour. Genotype and phenotype, genetic basis of behaviour, evolution and behaviour
The influence of biological structures on behaviour
The divisions of the nervous system: central and peripheral (somatic and autonomic).
The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons. The process of synaptic transmission, including reference to neurotransmitters, excitation and inhibition.
Week 2 - The Influence of neurochemistry on behaviour
The function of the endocrine system: glands and hormones.
The fight or flight response including the role of adrenaline.
Week 3 - Localisation of the Functions of the Brain
Localisation of function in the brain and hemispheric lateralisation: motor, somatosensory, visual, auditory and language centres; Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, split brain research.
Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain after trauma.
Week 4 - Ways of Studying the Brain
Scanning techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); electroencephalogram (EEGs) and event-related potentials (ERPs)
Post-mortem examinations
Week 5 - Biological Rhythms
Circadian, infradian and ultradian and the difference between these rhythms.
The effect of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Presented by Nick Redshaw - This 26 minute Video Presentation covers the Types and Explanations of Conformity section of our popular student workbook and includes discussion on the questions and suggested answers to questions within the our workbook.
This presentation is ideal for creating the flipped classroom - simply post this on your VLE or Edmodo, and get your students to look at it before your lesson it is best used in conjunction with our workbooks that you can download here or get your students to buy their own print copy exclusively through Amazon (save on your photocopying budget). Ideal as part of sustained lessons or revision and will help your students achieve outstanding progress over time.
Don't get caught out by not teaching your students how to calculate inferential tests it is part of the mathematical criteria of the specification use of a statistical test for example, calculating a non-parametric test of differences using data from a given experiment. If you have overlooked this don't despair download this bundle.
This very popular research methods workbook and power-point is now in a bundle by popular demand and is an absolute must (+ 2 Free Posters)
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification and covers Research Methods Year 2 Additional Content
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 7 - Research methods
1. Research Methods
a. Content analysis, coding and Thematic analysis
b. Case studies.
2. Scientific processes
a. Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent
validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving
validity.
b. Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and
falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm
shifts.
c. Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract,
introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.
3. Data handling and analysis
a. Analysis and interpretation of correlation, including correlation coefficients.
b. Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval (covered in 4b).
c. Content analysis and coding. Thematic analysis (covered in 1a).
4. Inferential testing
a. Probability and significance: Type I and Type II errors
b. Factors affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval data and experimental design. When to use the following tests: Spearman’s rho, Pearson’s r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.
c. The use of statistical tables and critical values in interpretation of significance;
d. Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test. Including the mathematical criteria the calculation of non-parametric tests
This Powerpoint is used during our UK Revision Workshops perfect for revision covering the main areas students struggle making it accessible to all and raising attainment with here is some teacher feedback:
"The pupils responded really positively to the session and felt that they had learnt a lot about exam technique. They also felt reassured that they did have good subject knowledge"
"Nick's intensive intervention workshop on Application, Research Methods and Biopsychology contributed to a real improvement in focus, confidence and drive amongst weaker students. So much so that we had our best ever AS results in terms of attainment and value added."
"Just to say thanks once again for wonderful session and delivery of books that the students have found so useful. I have had really positive feedback about the session. In fact one boy has just brought in some beautiful homemade cupcakes from his grateful mum because as a pupil premium student we paid for him. I feel these are really for you, but they wouldn’t make it in the post! I will be contacting you about help next year – almost certainly Year 12 and Year 13.
Follow up after the exam - Hi Nick and Bethan, it went brilliantly! Over 50 per cent of my 51 students got A grades – high proportion of pupil premium students."
Content:
09.00 – 09.05 Welcome
09.05 – 10.40 Application style questions related to topics
10.40 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 Research Methods/Graphs/Tables
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Graphs/Inferential Tests
14.00 – 14.10 Break
14.10 – 15.15 Biopsychology
Summary & Any Final Questions
Designed by Nick and Bethan for their very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers and students how they can get hold of our amazing posters. So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school or download them and use them on your devices.
These visual and engaging psychology specific posters break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Click on the links below to checkout each poster.
Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and ideal for engaging your students. during the learning cycles and during revision for the exams.
If you are a student download these posters and use them from your laptops / tablets /phones to prepare for the exams
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the other psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3. Download here from TES at take a step with us towards your success in 2017
Designed by Nick and Bethan for their very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers and students how they can get hold of our amazing posters. So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school or download them and use them on your devices.
These visual and engaging psychology specific posters break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Click on the links below to checkout each poster.
Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and ideal for engaging your students. during the learning cycles and during revision for the exams.
If you are a student download these posters and use them from your laptops / tablets /phones to prepare for the exams
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the other psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3. Download here from TES at take a step with us towards your success in 2017
These animations cover the AQA Psychology compulsory content for Attachment for specific details click on each resource for more details.
Individual price £24.00 Bundle price £15.00 (Saving 38%)
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
These animations cover the AQA Psychology compulsory content for Memory for specific details click on each resource for more details.
Individual price £22.00 Bundle price £15.00 (Saving 32%)
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
Since 2004 Nick and Bethan have worked with top independent and state schools to develop 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources. " Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
These eagerly anticipated powerpoints have been produced by leading authors Nick and Bethan specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 - OPTION 1 - Gender and maps onto our VERY popular Year 2 - Option 1 - Gender Workbook also available for download here on TES
Option 1 - Gender - Learning Objectives
This bundle includes the following:
Week 8 - Sex and gender. Sex-role stereotypes. Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender. Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter’s syndrome and Turner’s syndrome.
Week 9 - Cognitive explanations of gender development, Kohlberg’s theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy; gender schema theory.
Week 10 - Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation.
Week 11 - Social learning theory as applied to gender development. The influence of culture
and media on gender roles.
Week 12 - Atypical gender development: gender identity disorder; biological and social explanations for gender identity disorder.
These PowerPoints are a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students need to pay an additional subscription to receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page
Designed by Nick and Bethan these visual and engaging psychology specific posters break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Click on the links below to checkout each poster.
Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and ideal for engaging your students. during the learning cycles and during revision for the exams.
If you are a student download these posters and use them from your laptops / tablets /phones to prepare for the exams
As most of you know we run the very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers and students how they can get hold of our amazing posters.
So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school or download them and use them on your devices.
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the other psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3. Download here from TES at take a step with us towards your success in 2017
Next Year Starts NOW - By Special Request (Save 24%) - The Humanistic Approach, The Psychodynamic Approach & Comparisons.
Get these 5 Premium Resources including MTLPS, Powerpoints and Student Workbook for both Humanistic and Psychdtnamic Approaches and the Comparison of Approaches - click on each individual resource for further details:
These animations cover the AQA Psychology compulsory content for Research Methods for specific details click on each resource for more details.
Individual price £31.00 Bundle price £20.00 (Saving 35%)
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
his SPECIAL OFFER (by popular request) includes all the workbooks and powerpoints for the Year 1 Approaches:
This package includes;
Week 20. Definitions of abnormality
1. Deviation from social norms,
2. Failure to function adequately
3. Statistical infrequency
4. Deviation from ideal mental
Week 21. Phobias
1. The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias
2. The behavioural approach to explaining phobias; the two-process model, including classical and operant conditioning.
3. The behavioural approach to treating phobias; systematic desensitisation, including relaxation and use of hierarchy; flooding.
Week 22. Depression
1. The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of depression
2. The cognitive approach to explaining depression; Beck’s negative triad and Ellis’s ABC model
3. The cognitive approach to treating depression; cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including challenging irrational thoughts.
Week 23. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
1. The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of OCD
2. The biological approach to explaining OCD; genetic and neural explanations
3. The biological approach to treating OCD; drug therapy
