A Level Psychology AQA
Concise Exam Notes / Learning Tables for Issues and Debates.
The exam notes are base on the AQA marks schemes for Issues and Debates and from the Pink Psychology A-level Year 2 (Cara Flanagan).
AQA A level Psychology : BRILLIANT MODEL ANSWERS: Forensic Psychology (Year 2): We cover all types of exam questions (over 90 model answers)
Content for Forensic Psychology
Important information
Exam skills
Specification: Forensic psychology
MODEL ANSWERS FOR:
Offender Profiling: Top-down approach
Offender Profiling: Bottom-up approach
Biological explanations of offending behaviour: a historical approach
Biological explanations of offending behaviour: genetics and neural explanations.
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck’s theory
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Cognitive explanations
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Differential association theory
Psychological explanations: Psychodynamic theory
Dealing with offending behaviour: custodial sentencing
Dealing with offending behaviour: behaviour modification
Dealing with offending behaviour: Anger management
Dealing with offending behaviour: Restorative justice
Answers to identification questions.
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
AQA A level Psychology : BRILLIANT MODEL ANSWERS: Issues and Debates (Year 2): We cover all types of exam questions (over 60 model answers)
Content for Model Answers
Important information
Exam skills
Specification: Issues and debates.
Gender bias in Psychology .
Cultural bias in Psychology
Free-will and determinism
The nature v nurture debate
Holism and reductionism
Idiographic and nomothetic
Ethical implications
Answers to identification questions
A variety of teaching resources:
PowerPoint on Content Analysis
How content analysis is carried out
Student activity: Carrying out a content analysis from a ‘Lonely Hearts Column’ (a bit of psychology in it).
**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches in Psychology: Comparison of Approaches: Exam Notes and Model Answers
Full set of Exam Notes (AO1 + AO3)
Model Answers (3)
key terms /multiple choice questions
short response questions
application questions
16 marker questions
**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: Psychodynamic 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: Biological 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
**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches in Psychology: Social Learning Theory: 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
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**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches in Psychology: Behavioural Approach: Exam Notes and Model Answers
Full set of Exam Notes (AO1 + AO3)
Model Answers (21)
key terms /multiple choice questions
short response questions
application questions
16 marker questions
**AQA A Level Psychology: **
Approaches: Origins of Psychology: Exam Notes and Model Answers
Full set of Exam Notes (AO1 + AO3)
Model Answers (7)
key terms /multiple choice questions
short response questions
application questions
16 marker questions
**AQA Level Psychology: Design a study question (12 mark type).
Resources include:
PowerPoint (explains how you answer the question with model answer)
Information sheet on how to answer the question (for students)
Design issues for different research methods (questionnaires /observations) for students to consider.
Exam questions
AQA A Level Psychology: Role of the Father
PowerPoint on the role of the father and how to structure an essay (while learning the information).
A student led activity with teacher consolidating learning.
For each paragraph for the essay,
student will need to look for the AO1 (from information sheet A)
teachers feedback and answer t
student will need to look for AO3 (from information sheet B)
exam notes provided.
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.