This is the seventh lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe the theory of reconstructive memory. LO2: Explain real life examples of reconstructive memory. LO3: Discuss the strengths and limitations of reconstructive memory. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a short video to watch and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the fifth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe Murdock’s Serial Position Curve study LO2: Explain the results of Murdock’s study. LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Murdock’s study. The activities include recall questions as a starter, some short video clips, AQA exam-style questions, a memory task for the students to complete, notes and diagrams and a graph to produce. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the fourth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe the features of the MSM LO2: Explain examples of memory using the MSM model LO3: Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the MSM The activities include recall questions as a starter, some short video clips, AQA exam-style questions, tasks for the students to complete, notes and diagrams. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the eighth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe what interference is, in terms of memory. LO2: Explain real life examples of interference in memory. LO3: Discuss the strengths and limitations of the theory of memory interference. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, exam style questions and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the tenth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Define the term ‘false memory’. LO2: Describe a study into false memories. LO3: Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of a study into false memories. The activities include a starter question, independent tasks for the students to complete, notes, and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the seventh lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a culture as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Identify ways in which emotion can influence our perception. LO2: Understand methods of investigating emotion and perception. LO3: Evaluate McGinnie’s study into emotion and perception. The activities include an introduction to the lesson with a class discussion about how the emotion of Christmas affects our behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Students then transform the description of McGinnies study into a story board before beginning the evaluation. To construct the evaluation, students will sort sets of statements into groups that then need to be sequenced to produce a coherent evaluation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the ninth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a expectation as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Identify ways in which expectation can influence our perception. LO2: Describe Bruner and Minturn’s study into expectation and perception. LO3: Evaluate Bruner and Minturn’s study into motivation and perception. The activities include some interactive activities which will get the students thinking about expectation, reading and the links between the two. A video follows this about min-heard song lyrics - again, based on expectation. A definition of expectation is given before the students must summarise the methodology and findings of Bruner and Minturn’s study. Finally, the students construct an evaluation of the study on their worksheet. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the tenth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a expectation as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Recall the four factors that affect the perceptual set. LO2: Summarise the key points of these theories and/or studies. LO3: Apply our knowledge of these factors in answering exam-style questions. The activities include having the students transform information on the theories, studies and evaluations behind the four factors affecting perception into much reduced summaries (a ‘thinking hard’ skill). If pressed for time, students could work in groups to share the workload. Students then choose from a set of AQA exam-style questions based on the four factors affecting perception. The relative difficulties are clearly labeled on the presentation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the Ninth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: State what is meant by context. LO2: Describe Godden and Baddeley’s experiment. LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the experiment. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a short video to watch, a psychological study to summarise and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the sixth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a culture as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Define the terms perceptual set and culture. LO2: Describe and explain the ways in which culture affects perception. LO3: Evaluate the cultural factors affecting perception. The activities include an introduction to the terms ‘perceptual set’ and ‘culture’ with an activity which has the students consider what culture is before moving on to reading about Hudson’s study and then checking their understanding with a short quiz. Finally, student work through guided practice in constructing evaluations of the theory and study. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

I designed this Christmas themed lesson based on an idea from the Perception topic (emotion as a factor that affects perception). Learning objective 1: Identify ways in which emotion can influence our perception Students will be required to think about how their excitement and feelings towards Christmas change as 25 December approaches. Through class discussion, students will exchange ideas on why Christmas excites people. Learning objective 2: Explain the results of studies into the effects of emotion on perception Students will answer two short exam-style questions (5 marks total) about a simple investigation into how the emotion revolving around Christmas affects children before and after the event. Learning objective 3: Carry out an investigation to explore the effects of emotion on perception Students will take part in a simple investigation where they look through a list of 25 words. They have to select the 6 words that they prefer out of all of the others. 6 of the words are Christmas themed. Students may be influenced by the time of year to choose these words without realising. They will then look at the class’ result and draw conclusions.