Three lessons worth of content covering the main assumptions and evaluation of the psychodynamic approach. Lessons cover all content required by the spec including: conscious and unconscious mind, tripartite theory of personality, defence mechanisms and the psychosexual stages. (includes additional worksheet that could be given as revision). A variety of activities are included including a fun practical starter, fill in the gaps, mix and match activities, whiteboard plenaries, homework activity, relatable videos to support key assumptions, scenarios to encourage students to develop their AO2 skills and some practice at writing short exam style questions (complete with model answer).

Pack preparing students for A Level Psychology. The purpose is to give students a head start, encourage a curiosity and interest in the subject, promote subject recruitment. Includes: What is Psychology? Why should I study Psychology? What will I study at A Level? (AQA specification) Career prospects Recommended resources Additional resources - Netflix, books, films etc Introduction to research methods - types of experiment, sampling and ethics. Introduction to social influence - Conformity, conformity to social roles and obedience. All websites are hyperlinked and corresponding QR codes included for ease.

23 page booklet covering the whole specification content for the New AQA A Level for the Year 2 topic of Addiction. This resource includes outline of the specification, supporting studies and evaluation of them as well as overall evaluation of the topic areas.

This 115 page work booklet covers the entirety of the addiction specification for the new 2015 AQA Psychology specification. The booklet includes exam style questions, independent study (flipped learning) tasks, essay planning grids, assessment for learning tasks as well as additional reading with scaffolded questions. Feedback from my own students and those of other teachers is extremely positive. They testify that the resource is clear, well structured and allows for catching up missed content easily. Content includes: Describing addiction Risk factors Biological explanation of nicotine addiction Learning theory explanation of nicotine addiction Learning theory explanation of gambling addiction Cognitive theory of gambling addiction Biological interventions for addiction (drug therapy) Behavioural interventions for addiction (aversion therapy and covert sensitisation) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for addiction (CBT) Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) Prochaska’s six-stage model

UPDATED RESOURCES! SAVE TIME AND PLANNING WITH THIS RESOURCE! POWERPOINT, BOOKLET AND SOW INCLUDED! Over 20 hours of year 1 and 2 research methods teaching content with independent study (flipped learning) tasks and exam style questions with mark schemes built in throughout. Scheme of work includes outcomes, key questions, key terminology and adaptations for lower and higher ability. The lessons are designed in a way to allow more able students to move on to quickly, applying their knowledge by answering exam style questions, freeing up teacher time to focus on consolidating the knowledge of weaker students. The completed booklet acts as an excellent revision resource to help students plan for their linear exams. Specification content covered includes: Experimental methods Variables Aims and hypothesis Sampling Experimental design Pilot studies Ethics Descriptive statistics - measures of dispersion and central tendency, graphical displays and use of a table. Distributions Levels of measurement Statistical testing including calcuating the sign test Probability and significance Using critical values tables Type 1 and type 2 errors General note from the author: Feedback is more than welcome. I am more than willing to update and resend resources that buyers are less than satisfied with.

Everything you need for delivering Year 1 and Year 2 approaches! This resource includes all PPT slides, work booklet and full scheme of work for the approaches topic of paper 2 with issues and debates interleaved throughout. The SOW clearly identifies hierarchical outcomes, key questions and vocabulary, learnign activities, homework opportunities as well as how resources can be adapted to suit higher and lower ability students. The resource covers: Wundt Biological approach Behaviourism SLT Cognitive approach Psychodynamic approach Humanism Comparison of approaches Nature-nurture debate Idiographic-nomothetic Holism - reductionism Determinism - free will