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Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com

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Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
AQA Psychology RESEARCH METHODS - Full lessons Year 2
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AQA Psychology RESEARCH METHODS - Full lessons Year 2

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This bundle includes all of the lessons I have uploaded for A2 AQA Psychology revision of year 1 and new A2 bits for research methods. For the first year content these are revision lessons (e.g experiments, sampling, ethics, data etc) and assume some prior knowledge from first year. For the second year content its new lessons (e.g stats, validity, reliability, features of science). It includes powerpoints for all and then worksheets and some exam questions. Includes (in the order I teach it): Hypotheses & Variables Validity Reliability Experiments & Experimental Design Observations Content Analysis & Case Study Self Report & Correlation Ethics & Sampling Methods Data, Data Analysis & Significance Statistics Features of a science There is a similar bundle for first year original lessons as well: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12763300 Another good resource for RM is the workshop on designing research essays https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12744159
Paper 3 AQA Psychology Revision Powerpoints
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Paper 3 AQA Psychology Revision Powerpoints

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This includes revision summary ppts for paper 3 A2 topics: Issues and Debates, Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus with some modules. I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
REVISION CARDS Paper 1 Psychology
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REVISION CARDS Paper 1 Psychology

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This is a set of short revision cards for all of AQA Psychology Paper 1. They include: Social Influence, Memory, Attachment, Psychopathology Print them double sided and they have questions on the front and answers on the back. Perfect for independent or pair revision and quick recall of all the key content for exams.
CULTURE BIAS Debate
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CULTURE BIAS Debate

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Full lesson, activities and video links for Aqa Psychology new spec issues and debates topic. It also includes 2 possible links to documentaries (e.g race and intelligence and Mead’s). It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper). Also includes a possible essay structure to help with writing of the difficult essay. Evaluation is a card sort activity. Also included a sample Chitling Test (African American designed IQ test) to give the students a taste of why IQ tests could be culturally biased.
Ethical Implications and Social Senstivity
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Ethical Implications and Social Senstivity

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Full lesson and activities for Aqa Psychology new spec issues and debates topic. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper). Includes some activities: • Exam Questions for Debates Section • Example Table Task • Evaluation Match Task • Kahoot Link
VARIABLES Research methods
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VARIABLES Research methods

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For AQA Psychology Specification. It covers Independent and Dependent Variables, Conditions, Extraneous and Confounding Variables, and Operationalisation. It is a powerpoint with a notes sheet that the students take their notes into. This notes sheet then has numerous activities inbedded in it that the students complete throughout the lesson. It takes me 1 hour 30 mins to cover this lesson using these resources.
GENDER Revision Powerpoint for AQA Psychology
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GENDER Revision Powerpoint for AQA Psychology

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Designed to recap and revise the whole Gender module for AQA Psychology. It includes Sex, Gender, Androgyny, Explanations of Gender, Culture and Media Influences and Gender Identity Disorder. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete it before I go through it. I have included a bonus key terms check. I have uploaded a similar thing for some first year topics and Forensic and Schizophrenia in second year topics.
FORENSIC Revision Powerpoint AQA Psychology
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FORENSIC Revision Powerpoint AQA Psychology

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Designed to recap the whole Forensic module for AQA Psychology. It includes measuring crime, explaining crime, offender profiling and dealing with offending behaviour. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. I have uploaded a series of revision activities for Forensic too. I have also uploaded some revision powerpoints for first year topics too (Psychopathology, memory, attachment)
The Endocrine System Full Lesson for AQA Biopsychology
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The Endocrine System Full Lesson for AQA Biopsychology

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Full lesson including a powerpoint (with 4-5 video links) and 5 activities to complete on the endocrine system. Designed for the AQA Psychology biopsychology module. It outlines the endocrine system and then goes into the fight or fight response. There is a notes sheet included which the students take notes into from the powerpoint as the lesson progresses and it has imbedded activities in it for them to do too (e.g an independent task using Cat book). Activities include a card sort and a body picture to label for the endocrine system.
The BEHAVIOURIST Approach (CLASSICAL and OPERANT CONDITIONING)
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The BEHAVIOURIST Approach (CLASSICAL and OPERANT CONDITIONING)

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Full Lessons (2x 90 mins) for Classical and Operant Conditioning in the Behaviourist approach. It includes work sheets and powerpoints (with lots of video links). Designed for AQA Psychology. It covers all key information needed for AQA spec including behaviourist assumptions and evaluation of the two conditioning theories. Classical conditioning activities include: PPT with many video links -Worksheet examples of classical conditioning (including simpler answer sheet for differentiation) -Notes sheet for students to take notes into for classical conditioning (matches ppt) -Example activity for students to try classical conditioning on themselves -Sample exam question Operant Conditioning activities include: -PPT with some video links -Examples to understand the different types of reinforcement and punishment -Evaluation of CC and OC on a work sheet (and discussion of how to evaluate using P.E.E structure) -Crossword & Answers
DATA & MATHS - AQA Psychology research methods
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DATA & MATHS - AQA Psychology research methods

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Full lessons including Qualitative & Quantitative Data, Levels of Measurement, Primary & Secondary Data, Basic Maths Skills (fractions, percentages, ratios, standard form). This would be about 2 hrs worth of teaching. This includes a short taught segment on each of the above topics from AQA research methods and then a work sheet on each. Note: Does not include graphs
ISSUES and DEBATES - Aqa Psychology - Full lesson and Revision Activities
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ISSUES and DEBATES - Aqa Psychology - Full lesson and Revision Activities

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Issues and Debates Full lesson and activities for AQA Psychology. Includes: FW vs Determinism Reductionism vs Holism Nature vs Nurture Gender Bias Culture Bias Ethical Implications (note: Nomothetic vs Idiographic not included for the time being) Also included is the issues and debates summary revision ppt for whole topic and a set of revision cards.
LOMBROSO ATAVISTIC FORM Forensic Psychology
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LOMBROSO ATAVISTIC FORM Forensic Psychology

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For AQA Psychology Forensic Topic. This is a full lesson on Atavistic form (Lombroso’s explanation). It includes a fun activity which can be done for open evening- serial killer or psychologist (the descriptions should be stuck on the back of the photos for each card). After covering the features of Lombroso’s theory they examine their picture to see if their criminal has any of those features.
The Approaches - Independent Revision Booklet
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The Approaches - Independent Revision Booklet

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This was designed for students to complete outside of the lessons as part of their independent study. Would work well for revision for the Approaches topic. There are summary sheets, activities and then exam questions/essay plans to complete. There are mark schemes included for most of the exam questions. I will upload a word (editable doc) and the PDF (so you can see what it is meant to look like incase it formats funny). Its over 20 pages long.
AQA Psychology Research methods Design Essays
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AQA Psychology Research methods Design Essays

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A lesson on how to tackle the RM essays in paper 2 for AQA Psychology from an examiner on this paper. There is a powerpoint and two sample answers included as well as top tips and detailled demonstrations of how to do each part. Theres also some sample questions for students to try, some of which are new and made up so the students wont have seen them before. Includes a card sort activity too where students have to design a study.
The Psychodynamic Approach - Psychosexual Stages
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The Psychodynamic Approach - Psychosexual Stages

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This is a full lesson of resources for the Psychosexual stages of the Psychodynamic Approach. It includes a ppt with activities and a video link in it. I teach using the ppt and the students make notes into the notes sheet to avoid writing too much. This notes sheet has activities inbedded in it for them to do as well. For the stages, I place the cards of info around the room and they move around the room reading the cards of info and filling in their tables. The other psychodynamic assumptions are uploaded on another lesson.
NATURE or NURTURE Aqa Psychology
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NATURE or NURTURE Aqa Psychology

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Full lesson and activities for Aqa Psychology new spec issues and debates. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper). Includes some activities: Topic sort (based on Forensic, Gender and Schizophrenia topics - though could be adapted) Exam Questions Essay Plans Video Links