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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.
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Calculating Percentages
Converting a Percentage to a Decimal
Converting a Percentage to a Fraction
Using Ratios: Part-to-whole ratios and part-to-part ratios
Estimating Results
Interpreting Mathematical Symbols
Probability: The P-Value
Significant Figures
Activity: Practice Questions with Answers
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Self-Report Design
Designing Questionnaires
Likert Scales
Rating Scales
Fixed Choice Option
Designing Interviews
Designing one-to-one interviews
Writing Good Questions
Overuse of Jargon
Emotive Language and Leading Questions
Double-barrelled Questions with Double Negatives
Activity: Poorly Written Questions
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Self-Report Design
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Aims of Piloting
Exam Questions with Mark Scheme: Pilot Studies
Control Groups and Conditions
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Control Conditions
Single-Blind Procedures
Double-Blind Procedures
Exam Practice With Mark Scheme: Single-blind and Double-blind Procedure
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Video: 5 Controversial Psych Experiments That Would Never Happen Today
Ethical Issues in Psychology
Informed Consent
Deception
Protection from Harm
Privacy and Confidentiality
Ways of Dealing with Ethical Issues
The BPS Code of Conduct
Alternative Ways of Getting Consent
Dealing with Deception and Protection from Harm
Dealing with Confidentiality
Activity: Writing a Debrief
Exam Practice Questions with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Measures of Central Tendency
The Mean, Median and Mode
Activity: Calculating and Interpreting the Mean
Measures of Dispersion
The Range
Standard Deviation
Activity: Drawing Conclusions from a Table of Results
Exam Practice Question with Mark Scheme: Descriptive Statistics
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Types of Observations
Naturalistic and Controlled Observations
Covert and Overt Characteristics
Participant and Non-participant Observations
Activity: Identify the Type of Observations
Activity: Evaluation Table
Evaluation Points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Observational Techniques
Video: On Being Sane in Insane Places - Rosehan’s Hospital Experiment
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Control of Variables
Extraneous Variables
Exam Practice Question with Mark Scheme
Confounding Variables
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme
Demand Characteristics
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme
Investigator Effects
Randomisation
Standardisation
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Populations and Samples
Random Sample
Systematic Sample
Opportunity Sample
Volunteer Sample
Stratified Sample
Activity: Which Sampling Method?
Exam Practice Questions with Mark Scheme
Evaluation points for each Sampling Technique
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Developing a Research Question
Aims
Hypotheses
Types of Hypotheses
Activity: Directional or Non-directional?
Deciding which Hypothesis to use
Conducting an Experiment
The Independent (IV) and Dependent Variables (DV)
Operationalisation of Variables
Activity: Define the Key Terminology
Exam Practice Questions with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Consolidation Question
This fully editable lesson on Sensation and Perception explores the fundamental differences between how we sense and interpret the world around us, aligned with the AQA GCSE Psychology Specification. This resource equips students with an understanding of key concepts and theories, as well as their application to real-life scenarios.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Lesson Slides:
Students are introduced to the key differences between sensation (receiving sensory input) and perception (interpreting this input). The slides provide clear explanations, real-world examples, and visual aids, including engaging Think-Pair-Share activities such as debating Gregory’s Constructivist Theory and Gibson’s Direct Theory. Students also analyse examples like visual illusions and the “Fear or Love?” scenario to deepen their understanding.
Interactive Activities:
This resource features dynamic tasks, such as “Do Now” activities to encourage initial engagement (e.g., identifying and reflecting on the five senses and their importance). Visual illusions like the Müller-Lyer illusion and Rubin’s Vase allow students to explore how perception can be influenced by context, while real-life scenarios like interpreting fear or attraction help bridge theory and application.
Assessment Materials: Students consolidate their understanding through structured tasks, including worksheets that differentiate between sensation and perception and short-answer exam practice questions. The plenary task challenges students to consider the reliability of perception in broader contexts, encouraging reflective discussion.
This fully editable lesson on Gregory’s Constructivist Theory of Perception introduces students to the concept of perception as an active process shaped by past experiences, knowledge, and expectations. Aligned with the AQA GCSE Psychology Specification, this resource explores Gregory’s key ideas, such as inference, visual cues, and the role of nurture in perception, while critically evaluating the theory’s strengths and limitations.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Lesson Slides: These slides outline the main principles of Gregory’s constructivist theory, highlighting the active role of inference and visual cues in perception. Concepts such as mistaken hypotheses and visual illusions are explained using examples like the Müller-Lyer illusion and Segall et al.’s cultural research, making the material relatable and engaging for students. Interactive Think-Pair-Share activities encourage deeper discussion on the influence of past experiences on perception.
Interactive Activities: Students engage in defining key terms, answering Check-it Questions, and analysing cultural differences in perception using studies like Hudson (1960). Tasks such as interpreting ambiguous images and discussing nurture’s role in shaping perception foster critical thinking and active learning.
Evaluation and Assessment: The lesson includes exam-style questions and a structured evaluation worksheet. Students assess the theory by weighing its strengths, such as cultural evidence, and limitations, including its inability to account for innate perception. Activities such as PEE paragraphs help students articulate and structure their evaluation of the theory effectively.
This fully editable lesson on Gibson’s Direct Theory of Perception introduces students to a foundational explanation of how we perceive the world directly from environmental information, without the need for prior experience. Aligned with the AQA GCSE Psychology Specification, this resource explores Gibson’s key concepts, such as the optic array, optic flow patterns, and motion parallax, while critically evaluating the theory’s strengths and limitations.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Lesson Slides: The slides cover the main principles of Gibson’s theory, highlighting how perception happens directly through environmental cues like texture gradients and optic flow. Real-world applications, such as pilots relying on visual cues during World War II, are used to illustrate the theory. Interactive elements include Think-Pair-Share activities, encouraging students to evaluate the nature of perception and compare Gibson’s ideas to other theories.
Interactive Activities: Students engage in a variety of tasks, including defining key terms, answering Check-it Questions, and analyzing concepts like motion parallax with relatable examples, such as observing moving objects from a train window. These activities support active learning and deeper understanding of the material.
Evaluation and Assessment: The lesson includes exam-style questions and a dedicated evaluation worksheet. Students assess Gibson’s theory by identifying its real-world relevance, such as its explanation of everyday perception, and its limitations, such as its inability to explain perceptual errors like visual illusions. Structured tasks like PEE paragraphs enable students to practice critical thinking and articulate well-supported arguments.
This fully editable lesson on Visual Illusions introduces students to the fascinating ways perception can be tricked, equipping them with a deep understanding of concepts such as size constancy, depth cues, ambiguity, and fiction. Aligned with the AQA GCSE Psychology Specification, this resource delves into how visual illusions work and their implications for understanding the brain’s interpretation of sensory information.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Lesson Slides: The slides explore how visual illusions manipulate perception through phenomena like the Müller-Lyer illusion, the Ponzo illusion, ambiguous figures, and fictional shapes like the Kanizsa Triangle. Students engage with clear explanations and illustrative examples, including diagrams and links to video content. Think-Pair-Share activities challenge students to consider the psychological significance of visual illusions, such as their use in understanding neurological conditions.
Interactive Activities: The lesson starts with a Do Now activity encouraging students to reflect on the study of illusions in psychology. Hands-on tasks, such as identifying the Ponzo illusion in escalator images, allow students to apply their knowledge. Students also explore how the brain “fills in” gaps in fictional illusions and switches interpretations in ambiguous ones.
Assessment Materials: A variety of exam-style questions help students consolidate their learning, including sketching the Müller-Lyer illusion and explaining how depth cues contribute to misperceptions. Students are encouraged to discuss how illusions reveal the brain’s processes and apply their understanding to real-world contexts, such as architecture and design.
This fully editable lesson on Visual Cues and Constancies equips students with an understanding of how the brain interprets movement, distance, and object positions using visual cues and constancies. Aligned with the AQA GCSE Psychology Specification, this resource provides students with a robust exploration of monocular and binocular depth cues and their application to real-life scenarios.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Lesson Slides: Students are introduced to the role of visual cues and constancies in perception, including depth cues such as retinal disparity and convergence. The slides incorporate clear explanations, diagrams, and examples, alongside engaging Think-Pair-Share activities like discussing the importance of convergence in activities such as sports and reading. Interactive elements include real-life scenarios, such as why we don’t bump into objects as toddlers do.
Interactive Activities: The lesson begins with a “Do Now” activity, asking students to reflect on the challenges of depth perception when using one eye, encouraging initial engagement. Practical tasks, such as testing retinal disparity by observing the “jump” of an object when alternating between eyes, help students experience the concepts firsthand. Students also examine images demonstrating monocular depth cues (e.g., occlusion, linear perspective) and apply their knowledge to interpreting real-life visual scenes.
Assessment Materials: Students consolidate their understanding through a structured worksheet that requires them to fill in descriptions for key terms like binocular and monocular depth cues. Exam practice questions, such as outlining a binocular depth cue and applying it to a scenario involving an eye patch, provide opportunities for students to develop AO1 and AO2 skills. The plenary task encourages reflective discussion, linking the concepts of visual cues to professions such as driving, architecture, and sports.
This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson Objectives/outcomes
Activity: Murdock's Memory Test
Primacy and Recency Effects
Murdock's Serial Position Curve Study (1962)
Aim, Method, Findings and Conclusions
How Findings Support to Multi-Store Model
Activity: Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation Points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Extended Response Question
Mark Breakdown
Activity: Marking Student Answers
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
The Theory of Reconstructive Memory
Memory is Inaccurate
Reconstruction
Social and Cultural Influences
Effort After Meaning
Activity: Concepts - Memory in the Office
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question, Evaluation Question
Model answers
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
Activity: Memory Test - War of The Ghosts Replication
Bartlett’s War of The Ghosts Study
Aim, Method, Findings and Conclusions
Example Reproduction by Bartlett’s Participant
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short Answer Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
False Memories
Loftus and Pickrell’s Study (1995): Aim, Method, Results, Conclusions
Video: Are all of your memories real?
Activity: Class Discussion - A Positive Application?
Activity: Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions, Evaluation question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
Context
Godden and Baddeley’s Study (1975): Aim, Method, Results, Conclusions
Activity: Concepts - Hamza’s Exam
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Extended Response Question
Model answer
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the AQA GCSE Specification (published December 2016) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Lesson objectives/outcomes
Interference Theory
McGeoch and McDonald’s Study (1931): Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusions
Types of Interference: Proactive and Retroactive Interference
Video: Proactive and Retroactive Interference
Activity: Proactive or Retroactive Interference?
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Extended Response Question
Model answer
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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