A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 4: The Brain and Neuropsychology. Unit checklist Content summaries Key term glossaries Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge Knowledge questions

A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 3: Psychological Problems. Unit checklist Content summaries Key term glossaries Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge

A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 1: Development. Unit checklist Content summaries Key term glossaries Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge

Edexcel A Level Psychology (but by editing just a couple of overview slides these lessons could be suitable for any specification that covers Milgram and obedience, memory and SLT/Bandura). 3 induction lessons for year 11 students interested in taking A Level Psychology. These can be delivered face to face or used for virtual/blended learning. Also includes scheme of work for the 3 lessons. Lesson 1 - Social (obedience) Discussion about obedience and why it occurs Overview of Milgram’s research Students design and evaluate an obedience study Lesson 2 - Learning theories (SLT) Discussion about whether video games cause aggression Overview of Bandura’s research Students design and evaluate a learning theories study Lesson 3 - Cognitive (memory) Selective attention videos Memory experiment Students design and evaluate a memory study In the past I have delivered these sessions getting current year 12/13 students to support year 11 students in designing their own research in small groups. This has worked extremely well, as the current students can support and encourage consideration of samples, variables etc.

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology, but could be used for any Psychology specification at A Level or GCSE - Edexcel, AQA, OCR etc. Study revision framework- Description: aim, procedure, results, conclusion Evaluation: generalisability, reliability, applications, validity, ethics Conclusion (practice for essay style conclusion - adaptable for different specifications) Theory revision framework- Description: claims, components Evaluation: supporting evidence, opposing evidence, different theory, application Conclusion (practice for essay style conclusion - adaptable for different specifications) I send students these blank frameworks at the beginning of the year and leave a master copy in my classroom for students to print/photocopy enough for the year. They complete these frameworks either in lesson whilst learning a theory/study, or as a homework revision consolidation task. It encourages students to be concise whilst note taking, but ensures all essential criteria for the exam are covered.

For Edexcel A Level Psychology (2015 new spec) - “Topic on a page” unit revision summaries. A3 posters designed for students to use to trigger further knowledge recall. Units and contemporary studies included - Social - Burger Cognitive - Schmolck Biological - Brendgren Learning - Capafons Clinical - Guardia Criminological (optional unit) - Howells Uploaded in Word Document format so that content can easily be edited by teachers (for example for different contemporary studies to be swapped out). Acronymns used: APRC = aim, procedure, results, conclusion SODA = supporting evidence, opposing evidence, different theory, application

Editable printable template for Psychology student double-sided key rings. Replace with your school name and student graduation year. These have gone down very well with students and are a cheap but effective end of year gift to give out before examinations or at a results day. Simply buy some blank rectangular key rings which can be bought in bulk from websites like Amazon or Ebay, and place inside two cut outs - one image and one school name.

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology to help students prepare for their A Level Paper 1, in relation to the Individual Differences and Developmental Psychology topics from all Paper 1 units: Social, cognitive, biological and learning theories. I used these resources over a series of 5 online virtual lessons, two for students to create a summary for individual differences, two for students to create a summary for developmental psychology and one for practicing related exam questions. The tasks could obviously be adapted to be group tasks for face to face teaching. Differentiation provided through structured support sheet and detailed exemplars. Lesson pack contains: PowerPoint presentations to support students in reviewing the content and creating their own summaries (x2) Support sheets to help students summarise the content (x2) Detailed exemplar grids with all ID and Dev Psych content summarised (x2) ID/Dev Psych practice exam questions Word Document

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 Criminological Psychology revision. Students are required to work in groups to circulate around different crime scenarios and they have to select the most appropriate explanation to explain the behaviour, and evaluate its usefulness in relation to the scenario, practicing description, application and evaluation skills AO1/AO2/AO3. Contains: PowerPoint Essay titles Word document

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology, Paper 3 Section C 12marker preparation. Contains: Lesson PowerPoint Essay titles Worksheet + free follow-up lesson/extended homework activity PowerPoint Students work in groups to apply theories to unseen scenario questions, and evaluate their usefulness in explaining the scenario, to prepare them for AO1/AO2/AO3 scenario evaluate 12markers for Paper 3 Section C, referred to as “DEAC” essays in the PowerPoint.

Symptom definition and definition cards for schizophrenia and anorexia, to support Edexcel A Level Psychology Clinical Psychology. This can be used as a matching card sort game, a pair-match game or just as revision cards

Unit checklists for Edexcel A Level (or AS) Psychology - can be given to students when beginning each unit, to be used as a checklist to cross off when they have studied each topic. Or could be used as a revision tracker. Includes unit checklists for: Social Cognitive Biological Learning Clinical Criminal

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 2 - Learning theories Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 2 - Biological Psychology. Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 1 - Cognitive Psychology. Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 1 - Social Psychology. Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 3 - Research Methods

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 - Criminological Psychology: Theories of crime Understanding the offender Treatments for offenders Jury decision making Eye witness testimony Loftus and Palmer Howells Practical investigation Key question Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.

Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 - Clinical Psychology: Schizophrenia Anorexia Studies - Guardia, Carlsson, Rosenhan Other - four Ds of diagnosis, classification systems DSM/ICD, diagnosis reliability/validity/cultural impacts, research methods, Bradshaw (case study), Vallentine (interview), practical, key question Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.