Science teacher in London and Chemistry graduate
2ic for Science, Subject Lead for Psychology
Biology, Chemistry and Physics to KS3 and KS4
Psychology to KS4
Science teacher in London and Chemistry graduate
2ic for Science, Subject Lead for Psychology
Biology, Chemistry and Physics to KS3 and KS4
Psychology to KS4
This is the fourth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182.
The lesson covers Gregory’s direct theory of perception covering the principles of the theory and how to evaluate it.
LO1: Define the term ‘inference’.
LO2: Explain four aspects of Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception.
LO3: Evaluate Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception.
The activities include starter questions, a class discussion, note taking and finally guided practice in the writing of an 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 second lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182.
The lesson covers identifying monocular and binocular depth cues and recognising them.
LO1: Identify some of the ways we understand distance in our vision.
LO2: Describe how different depth cues work.
LO3: Recognise depth cues in different situations.
The activities include a starter, explanations and examples, a worksheet and finally a question allowing the students to applying their new knowledge to unfamiliar situations.
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 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: Recreate Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts reconstructive memory study.
LO2: Describe the findings of Bartlett’s study.
LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Bartlett’s study.
The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a worksheet and a 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 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 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 second 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 aim of Baddeley’s 1966 study into memory encoding.
LO2: Understand how Baddeley carried out his study into memory encoding.
LO3: Evaluate Baddeley’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 finally a plenary question.
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 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 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.
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.
This contains the first 5 of the 10 lessons in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology
Processes of memory:
Encoding, storage and retrieval
Baddley’s study into encoding
Different types of memory (Tulving’s theory)
Structures of memory:
4. The multi-store model of memory
5. Primacy and recency effects in recall (Murdock’s serial position curve study)
The bundle contains a complete lesson guiding you and the students through the first half of the topic of memory. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers.
This contains the first 5 of the 10 lessons in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology
Visuals:
Sensation, perception and visual illusions
Visual cues and constancies
Theories of perception:
3. Gibson’s direct theory of perception
4. Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception
5. Comparing Gibson’s and Gregory’s theories of perception
The bundle contains a complete set of lessons guiding you and the students through the first half of the topic of perception. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers including homework tasks.
This bundle contains the first five lessons in the topic of Research Methods from the AQA GCSE in Psychology 8182.
Personally, I don’t teach this topic all in one go, but rather I interleave them through the other topics as each lesson becomes relevant to the students’ learning.
Lessons included:
Hypotheses and variables (writing hypotheses, understanding independent and dependent variables as well as operationalisation of the varaibles).
Extraneous variables (understanding how to limit extraneous variables as well as employing standardised procedure and using randomisation).
Types of experiment (natural, laboratory and field experiments).
Experimental designs (quantitative and qualitative methods, independent groups, matched pairs and repeated measures).
Sampling methods (random, volunteers, systematic, stratified, opportunity).
This contains lesson 6 - 10 in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology 8182
Factors affecting perception:
6. Culture
7.Emotion
8. Motivation
9. Expectation
10. Comparing factors affecting perception
The bundle contains a complete lesson guiding you and the students through the second half of the topic of perception. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers.
This contains lesson 6 - 10 in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology
Memory as an active process:
6. Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study
7.Reconstructive memory
Accuracy of memory:
8. Interference
9. Conext
10. False memories
The bundle contains a complete lesson guiding you and the students through the second half of the topic of memory. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers.
This contains all 10 lesson in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology 8182
Visuals:
Sensation, perception and visual illusions
Visual cues and constancies
Theories of perception:
3. Gibson’s direct theory of perception
4. Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception
5. Comparing Gibson’s and Gregory’s theories of perception
Factors affecting perception:
6. Culture
7.Emotion
8. Motivation
9. Expectation
10. Comparing factors affecting perception
The bundle contains complete lessons guiding you and the students through the entirety of the topic of perception. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers.
This contains all 10 lesson in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology
Processes of memory:
Encoding, storage and retrieval
Baddley’s study into encoding
Different types of memory (Tulving’s theory)
Structures of memory:
4. The multi-store model of memory
5. Primacy and recency effects in recall (Murdock’s serial position curve study)
Memory as an active process:
6. Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study
7.Reconstructive memory
Accuracy of memory:
8. Interference
9. Conext
10. False memories
The bundle contains complete lessons guiding you and the students through the entirety of the topic of memory. Some of the lessons have worksheets and additional resources. All lessons come with sample questions and answers.