This contains all lessons in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology containing Powerpoints for each subtopic and associated worksheet. Also includes knowledge organisers for revision.
Sensation & Perception
Visual cues & constancies
Visual illusions
Theories of perception:
Gibson’s Direct Theory
Gregory’s Constructivist Theory
Factors affecting perception:
Culture
Emotion
Motivation
Expectation
This contains all lessons in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology containing Powerpoints for each subtopic and associated worksheet. Also includes knowledge organisers for revision.
Piaget’s theory of language & thought
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Our view of the world
Human vs animal communication
Von Frisch’s bee study
Eye contact
Body language
Personal space
Non-verbal behaviour - Darwin’s theory
Non-verbal behaviour - Innate or learned
Non-verbal behaviour - Yuki’s study of emoticons
This contains all lessons in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology containing Powerpoints for each subtopic and associated worksheet. Also includes knowledge organisers for revision.
Processes of memory: encoding (input) storage and retrieval (output)
Different types of memory: episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory.
How memories are encoded and stored.
Structures of memory
The multi-store model of memory: sensory, short term and long term.
Features of each store: coding, capacity, duration.
Primacy and recency effects in recall: the effects of serial position.
Murdock’s serial position curve study.
Memory as an active process
The Theory of Reconstructive Memory, including the concept of ‘effort after meaning’.
Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study.
Factors affecting the accuracy of memory, including interference, context and false memories.
This contains all lessons in the Research Methods topic for AQA GCSE Psychology containing Powerpoints for each subtopic and booklet for the whole unit. Also includes knowledge organisers for revision.
Hypotheses & variables
Extraneous variables
Types of experiment
Experimental design
Sampling methods
Ethical considerations
Questionnaires & interviews
Observations
Correlations
Case studies
Reliability & validity
Types of data
Descriptive statistics
Computation
This contains all lessons in the Social Influence topic for AQA GCSE Psychology containing Powerpoints for each subtopic and associated worksheet. Also includes knowledge organisers for revision.
Conformity - Asch’s Study
Social & Dispositional Factors
Obedience - Milgram’s Study
Milgram’s Agency Theory
Adorno’s Theory
Prosocial Behaviour - Piliavin’s Study
Social & Dispositional Factors
Crowd & Collective Behaviour
Deindividuation
Social & Dispositional Factors
Revision resources