A-Level psychology [edexcel]- Introduction to social psychology

This is an ALevel psychology lesson which focuses on introducing the social psychology unit. This lesson is designed to be the first lesson of the unit. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 13 slides on the power point.

Included:

• Starter, research methods recap. Relies on students have a basic understanding of different methods used in psychology.
• Title page, encouraging students to start to think about what social psychology is about.
• Key handouts. Attached. Key concepts sheet and social psychology overview sheet.
• Students to start to think about why we behave the way we do- then introduces the 5 key perspectives in psychology when it comes to explaining human behaviour.
• Explanation of how the social approach explains human behaviour: the influence of groups, individuals and culture. The lesson then goes through each of these in turn, when going through each one there are questions for students to discuss and youtube clips to help explain each one.
• The lesson ends with a short answer exam style question- 3 marker.