A nice way to finish off the Year for Year 12 students. A range of topics including: Psychologists in the Sun (disguised psychologists in which students need to identify) Disney disorders (characters and their possible mental health issues) Localisation of the brain (match) Peer question round As well as traditional: Food and drink (multiple choice) Summer knowledge (multiple choice) Music round (resource was made in 2017!)

students organise themselves into teams and write two questions using the three topics they have learnt so far (gender, eating behaviour and aggression) to use in the peer question round. Each team takes it in turns to choose a round. 1_ Peer question 2) Christmas knowledge 3) Ding dong slurp slurp (remembering studies to names) 4) Give us some figgy pudding (Christmas related eating behaviour questions) 5) Christmas music round 6) Christmas food and drink 7) 12.00 days of christmas (12 days of christmas and research method questions) 8) Santa and his elves (Psychology explanations round) 9) TV and movies 10) Bearded psychologists (Psychologists disguised with festive beards) Merry christmas!

Two PowerPoint slideshows that can be used to run through the theory and evaluative points of two popular concepts from the memory unit The effects of Anxiety on EWT the effects of misleading information on EWT Each PowerPoint has a practice research methods equation and a student activity.

Two PowerPoint slideshows that can be used to run through the theory and evaluative points of two difficult concepts from the attachment unit. attachment styles (strange situation) Maternal deprivation theory

Two PowerPoint slideshows that can be used to run through the theory and evaluative points of two difficult concepts from the psychopathology unit. Explanations of OCD Therapies and treatment of OCD

PowerPoint discussing the main AO1 theories and A03 points related to the cognitve approach to anorexia. Tasks compliment pages 42-43 in the catbook 4th edition.

Two PowerPoint slideshows that can be used to run through the theory and evaluative points of two difficult concepts from the social psychology unit. Authoritarian personality (dispositional factors of obediance) Resisance of social influence (locus of control and social support)

A summary PowerPoint with two explanations of nicotine addiction, evidence and evaluative points. Very useful for revision sessions or independent work for flip classroom teaching.

Introduction to the AQA A Psychology unit addiciton. The PowerPoint is designed as a Essay run through and will be useful for revision or as independent work that can be set to students electronically.

This is an introductory lesson to psychology for GCSE. -Students are given Progress sheets and DIRT templates for their exercise books. -Students complete a THINK-PAIR-SHARE after looking at a series of psychology themed GIFs. -Students complete a discussion task designed to help introduce areas in which psychology investigate using the scientific method. Students use a verbal framework to share their ideas to the class. -Student finish the lesson constructing a diamond nine in their book. This is the first lesson of five of a GCSE introduction unit to psychology.

One of my favourite units from the GCSE course! In this lesson students are introduced to the difference between sensation and perception through the use of optical illusions and video clips. Students complete the lesson with a range of exam style questions.

Certainly one of my favourite units from the GCSE course! In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of moncular (linear perspective, occlusion, relative size, and height in plane) and binocular cues (retinal disparity and convergence. These are covered in two lessons (I taught it as a double). Students are introduced to the concepts via gifs, diagrams and tasks. Students watch a range of videos and complete exam style questions. Although the lessons work well without the AQA Psychology textbook (Spikey red haired chap), its addition supplements the lesson well.

Students are introduced to the odd thought of experiment of whether a baby would walk off a cliff or would be able to perceive a large fall. Students then asked how they would investigate… quickly you will introduce Gibson & Gibson’s Cliff edge experiment! This resource includes two lessons The first lesson introduces students to the main concepts of the theory. In the second lesson students are given a summary of the theoy and asked to write questions that would allow other students to find the answers from the sheet (Found at the end of the PowerPoint). Students are then introduced to three evaluation PEC points and asked to complete a table. An extension is included involving a series of exam quesitons.

A topic students love- optical illusions will create a lot of discussion! Students are introduced to a range of visual illusions covered in the AQA specification. Students are shown descriptions, examples and videos highlihgting Muller lyer illusion, Kaniza triangle, and the Necker cube. Students fill in a summary table they can stick in their books. Although this lesson can work without any other resources, lower ability students may wish to supplement this resource with the AQA Psychology textbook (Red spikey haired chap).

All resources were used for a 2hr GCSE taster session. Taster 1: Students are introduced to psychology through the discussion of gifs to form a definition. Students are introduced to the course and complete a diamond 9 activity designed to get students discussing their justification for their thought processes. Taster 2: students focus on how psychologists investigate topics using different theories. students investigate the research question “What causes evil behaviour?” After discussing how ‘evil’ could be operationalised (e.g. aggression, selfish acts that lead to harm, lack of empathy), students complete a rotation task in which they are introduced to a number of theories (including milgram, conditioning, social learning, and brain scanning). The off specification topics can be used to enthuse students regarding the new subject.

Students arrive to the lesson with a food diary of the last few days. The piece of work is to highlight highly palatable foods and low fat foods. Students can use their diary to explain why they might have higher fat foods due to an evolutionary advantages. Teacher run through slides related to parental and peer influence before students fill in a table of relevant evaluative points using the cat textbook edition 4. Students watch a series of television adverts and figure out who the target audience is and how it relates to influences food preference. Students use their knowledge to complete a summary homework

This is a GCSE introduction (AQA) to Psyhcology. However, the tasks could be adapted to A-level depending on ability. The lesson is centred around introducing skills linked to the A01 skills from the specification. The lesson is centred around the GCSE framework attached. -Students are introduced to an image in which they nave to annotate with questions. -Students complete a reading/comprehension task to extract and synthesis the most important aspects regarding the procedure and results. -Students watch a video clip to aid with a discussion regarding the results of the study. -students construct a conclusion and discuss how the findings relate to real life.

Students are asked a quick quiz in relation to andro-centrism, alpha and beta bias, and examples to support those ideas. Students attempt two exam questions related to gender bias focusing on the different expectation within a 2 mark explanation and a 3 mark explanation Students are introduced to the evaluative points related to gender bias. Students complete the A3 essay sheet which has a basic structure (AO1 points already written) students evaluate to demonstrate their understanding.

Psychology AQA A -Students are introduced to the levelled mark scheme. -discuss command words to questions and sort an essay card sort into points, evidence and evaluation. Students reassemble the cards into an essay (Outline and evaluate the role of learning for food preference). Higher students will realise the flexibility they have in forming paragraphs. -Students are given an example section from "Discuss the evolutionary theory to food preference" and are then asked to finish the evaluative points. -Students peer mark using levelled mark scheme. Homework: Students use all the rules to write "Outline and evaluate the role of neural and hormonal mechanisms in eating behaviour.

Students recap key definitions from last lesson before attempting two short exam questions. Students look through model answers to make improvements and discuss possible marks. Teacher runs through evaluative points for determinism based on page 47. Students complete a summary evaluation table Students demonstrate their knowledge by completing the structured essay sheet.