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At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
Welcome to JB Resources on TES!
At JB Resources, our mission is to empower educators and students with top-tier educational materials specifically crafted for GCSE and A-Level Psychology. Our comprehensive collection is designed to cater to the diverse needs of the classroom, ensuring each lesson is interactive, thorough, and up-to-date. From complete topic bundles to individual lessons, we provide resources that make learning both enjoyable and effective.
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Aims of Drug Therapy
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
How SSRIs work
Video: 2-Minute Neuroscience – SSRIs
Activity: Fill in the Blanks
Combining SSRis work with Other Treatments
Alternative to SSRIs
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer questions
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Biological Approach to Explaining OCD
Genetic Explanations of OCD
Family Studies
Candidate Genes
OCD is Polygenic
Different types of OCD
Neural Explanations of OCD
The Role of Serotonin
Decision-Making Systems
Activity: Concepts - Jack
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 16 Mark Essay with Application
Activity: Planning worksheet
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Video: Pure O
Video Questions
OCD in the DSM-V
Related Disorders
The OCD Cycle
Activity: Summary Activity
Behavioural Characteristics of OCD
Compulsions
Avoidance
Emotional Characteristics of OCD
Anxiety and Distress
Accompanying Depression
Guilt and Depression
Cognitive Characteristics of OCD
Obsessive Thoughts
Cognitive Strategies to Deal with Obsessions
Insight into Excessive Anxiety
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
CBT: Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
Thought Diary for CBT
Refresher: Ellis’s ABC Model
CBT: Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
Behavioural Activation
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Activity: If this is the answer what is the question?
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Planning 16 Mark Questions
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Video: Psychology Unlocked – Cognitive Psychology
Beck’s Cognitive Theory of Depression
Faulty Information Processing
Negative Self-Schema
The Negative Triad
Activity: The Negative Triad
Ellis’s ABC Model
Activity – Concepts: Yasmin
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short answer question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key Questions
Video: What is Depression?
Diagnostic Features of Depression
Depression in the DSM-V
Behavioural Characteristics of Depression
Activity Levels
Disruption of Sleep and Eating Behaviour
Aggression and Self-harm
Emotional Characteristics of Depression
Lowered Mood
Anger
Lowered Self-esteem
Cognitive Characteristics of Depression
Poor Concentration
Dwelling on The Negative
Absolutist Thinking
Video: What does depression feel like?
Activity: Behavioural, Emotional or Cognitive?
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question, Short answer questions
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
The Behavioural Treatment of Phobias
Treatment 1: Systematic Desensitisation
The Anxiety Hierarchy
Relaxation Techniques are Taught
Exposure to Phobic Stimulus
Treatment 2: Flooding
Activity – Concepts Ailurophobia (Fears of cats)
Evaluation points
Evaluation worksheets
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Key assumptions from the Behaviourist Approach
Mowrer’s Two-Process Model (1960)
Activity: Classical Conditioning
Fear Acquisition via Classical Conditioning
Phobia Maintenance via Operant Conditioning
Activity: Concepts - Zelda’s Fear of Dogs
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Video: How fear drove human evolution
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key questions
Video: Defining Disorders
Diagnosis in Psychology: The DSM-V
Specific Phobias in the DSM-V
Phobia Prevalence in the UK
Trypophobia
Activity: Fear or Phobia
Video: Khan Academy - Phobias
Behavioural Characteristics of Phobias
Panic
Avoidance
Endurance
Emotional Characteristics of Phobias
Anxiety
Fear
Unreasonable Emotional Response
Cognitive Characteristics of Phobias
Selective Attention to the Phobic Stimulus
Irrational Beliefs
Cognitive Distortions
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application questions
Plenary: Consolidation question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Activity: Is this person abnormal?
Definition 1: Statistical Infrequency
Example: IQ and Intellectual Disability Disorder
Definition 2: Deviation from Social Norms
Example: Antisocial Personality Disorder
Definition 3: Failure to Function Adequately
Example: Intellectual Disability Disorder
Definition 4: Deviation from Ideal Mental Health
Jahoda’s Criteria of Ideal Mental Health (1958)
Video: Psychology Unlocked - Four ways to define abnormality
Evaluation activity
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application question
Plenary: Consolidation question
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THEORIES OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS LESSON BUNDLE: Includes Social Exchange Theory, Equity Theory, Rusbult’s Investment Model and Duck’s Phase Model (A-Level Psychology - Relationships Topic)
This lesson bundle includes FOUR complete lessons:
Social Exchange Theory
Equity Theory
Rusbult’s Investment Model
Duck’s Phase Model
All lessons include the complete lesson slides and worksheets.
*Please refer to individual lessons for further details of included content.
This bundle includes a complete scheme of work for the A-Level Psychology topic: RELATIONSHIPS TOPIC
The 10 lessons are included in this bundle are:
Sexual Selection and Human Reproductive Behaviour
Self-Disclosure
Physical Attractiveness
Filter Theory
Social Exchange Theory
Equity Theory
Rusbult’s Investment Model
Duck’s Phase Model
Virtual Relationships in Social Media
Parasocial Relationships
*Please see individual lessons for further details of included content.
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Key content included:
Key Questions
Parasocial Relationships
Video: Understanding Parasocial Relationships
Activity: Case Study - Justin Bieber Obsession
Levels of Parasocial Relationships
Entertainment-social
Intense-personal
Borderline Pathological
The Absorption-Addiction Model
The Attachment Theory Explanation
Evaluation Worksheet
Evaluation Points
Exam Practice: 8 Mark Question with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Discussion prompts
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Key content included:
Key Questions
Self-Disclosure in Virtual Relationships
Reduced Cues Theory
The Hyperpersonal Model
Absence of Gating
Activity: Do virtual relationships lead to more or less self-disclosure?
Exam Practice: Application Question with Mark Scheme
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice: Planning 16 Mark Essays
Plenary video: The Science of Online Dating
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Key content included:
Discussion Activity: Reasons for Relationship Breakdown (Duck, 1992)
Key Questions
Duck’s Phase Model of Relationship Breakdown
Phase 1: Intra-psychic Phase
Phase 2: Dyadic Phase
Phase 3: Social Phase
Phase 4: Grave-dressing Phase
Exam Practice: Short Answer Question with Mark Scheme
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam practice: Evaluation question with Mark Scheme
Plenary: Consolidation Question
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Rusbult’s Investment Model
Satisfaction and Comparison with Alternatives
Investment Size
Satisfaction versus Commitment
Relationship Maintenance Mechanisms
Activity: Annotate the Diagram of Rusbult’s Investment Model
Activity: Concepts - Working on it
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 8 Mark Question
Model Answer
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Equity Theory
Equity and Equality
The Role of Equity
Consequences of Inequity
Activity: Summary Worksheet
Exam Practice With Mark Scheme: Short Answer Question
Evaluation Worksheet
Evaluation Points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Evaluation Question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Social Exchange Theory
Rewards, Costs and Profits
Comparison Level (CL)
Comparison Level for Alternatives (CLalt)
Stages of Relationship Development
Activity: Concepts - You Scratch My Back?
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Short Answer Question
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: Application Question
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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FACTORS AFFECTING ATTRACTION LESSON BUNDLE: Includes Self-Disclosure, Physical Attractiveness and Filter Theory (A-Level Psychology - Relationships Topic)
This lesson bundle includes THREE complete lessons:
Self-Disclosure
Physical Attractiveness
Filter Theory
All lessons include the complete lesson slides and worksheets.
*Please refer to individual lessons for further details of included content.
This lesson was created using the latest AQA A-Level Specification (published June 2019) although content and activities may be useful for other specifications.
Key content covered in this Lesson:
Key Questions
Filter theory
Level 1: Social Demography
Level 2: Similarity in Attitudes
Level 3: Complementarity
Activity: Annotate the Filter Theory Diagram
Evaluation worksheet
Evaluation points
Exam Practice with Mark Scheme: 16 Mark Question with Application
Modelling: Using the STEM effectively
Activity: Planning Activity
Plenary: Consolidation Question
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