This booklet is designed to be used by GCSE students studying the AQA 9-1 Psychology specification Booklet includes 8 weeks worth of retrieval quizzes covering the whole of the social influence specification plus instructions on how to use the booklet and the importance of retrieval and deliberate practice.

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

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.

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

Resource appropriate for the AQA GCSE Psychology specification. This is a flipped learning activity/homework for students to complete at home/independently. Resource explains the aims of cognitive neuroscience including examples from individuals with mental health disorders, stroke and neurological damage. A concise explanation and evaluation of each scanning technique is also included.

This resource is aimed at the GCSE AQA Psychology specification. This is an engaging and fully differentiated resource that include regular recap of important prior knowledge from a variety of topics as well as student led tasks that address AOs 1-3.

Lesson covering Penfield’s study of the interpretive cortex. Lesson includes an activity to recap prior relevant knowledge, engaging starter to hook students in, relevant video clip and a series of student led activities to allow students to work at their own pace in order to outline as well as evaluate Penfield’s study. Progress checks are implemented throughout through the use of thinking and discussion targeted questioning and white board checks. The evaluation activity is differentiated to allow less able students to independently access the activity.

1-2 lessons worth of content covering the knowledge needed to address the brain structure and function sections of the AQA GCSE Neuropsychology specification. Lesson includes whiteboard recap of Hebb’s theory of learning, engaging starter to hook students into brain structure and function, a series of five varied student led activities including reading and highlighting, emphasising key term definitions, a carousel activities to label and annotate the brain and an AO2 application based question with scaffolded helpsheet for weaker students. Progress is assessed through key thinking and discussion questions periodically throughout the lesson in addition to whole class whiteboard activities, a return to the starter activity to allow students to apply their new knowledge and, as mentioned previously, application of knowledge to exam style questions.

Lesson covering Hebb’s theory of learning within the Neuropsychology topic on the new AQA specification. Lesson includes a recap of prior knowledge (neurons, synapses, fight or flight) and then introduces students to the concept of brain plasticity. Activities include key term mix and match, read and summarise, application to contemporary examples, supporting video clips and extended reading homework to stretch the most able.

A 30 mark assessment covering the divisions of the nervous system, neurons, synaptic transmission and James-Lange theory of emotion given as a mid topic assessment. Questions are in the style of those reflected in the specimen paper and includes multiple choice, labelling diagrams, 4 and 6 mark application questions and a 9 mark essay. Mark scheme included.

Lesson covering the key study Von Frisch with engaging starter, carousel activity to discover the key components of the study and an AO2 exam style question for students to answer.

Observation ready lesson covering the synaptic transmission content of the new AQA GCSE 9-1 specification. Activities include label neuron recap task, thought provoking starter and four independent student tasks that allow students to work at a pace and level that is appropriate to them and their needs. Tasks include gap fills, labelling a synapse, differentiated tasks for explaining the process of synaptic transmission and exam questions differentiated by support. This was used during an observation with students ranging from grade 3 to grade 9 and excellent feedback was received.

This lesson covers the content students need to know for the new AQA GCSE 9-1 Psychology specification. The lesson uses a range of student led activities to discover the structure and function of the three different types of neuron, the key features of a neuron and their functions. Activities include whiteboard starter, carousels, mix and match, exam style application questions and an interactive progress checking plenary.

Lesson covering the James-Lange theory of emotion for the new AQA GCSE 9-1 specification. Lesson includes whiteboard recap of prior learning (fight or flight and nervous system - relevant to today’s lesson), engaging starter to introduce students to the concept of emotion, and a series of student led tasks including gap fills, AO2 application style questions (with helpsheet and sentence starters available for lower ability), research support analysis and colour coded PEE evaluation.

May also be useful for lower ability KS5 Psychology students! Lesson covering the fight or flight content of the new specification. It builds on previous knowledge of the nervous system to cover further detail of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches in relation to fight or flight. Lesson includes engaging starter, quick whiteboard recap of the divisions of the nervous system and five active learning tasks including gap fills, reading and highlighting, sorting, represnting information in diagram form and exam style questions with markschemes for self and peer assessment. The lesson is designed to allow students to transition easily from one task to the next allowing students to work at a pace appropriate to them. ‘Check it’ and ‘Helpsheet’ slides are included that can be printed to allow students to sucessfully self assess each task before they move on.

Full lesson on the nervous system for the AQA GCSE Psychology 9-1 specification. Lesson inlcudes the structure and function of the nervous system including central, peripheral, autonomic and somatic systems. Activities include interactive starter, independent working, mini whiteboard plenaries, application and exam style questions with model answers and a return to the starter activity to show progress.

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.

Work booklet given to students to complete independently. Makes an excellent summer project or revision resource. Students had some knowledge of the issues and debates content but had not covered it in any great depth. This booklet therefore contains enough detail for them to have a good understanding of the content but also leaves enough gaps for the students to use their existing knowledge and additional research skills to complete. Knowledge review questions are included at the end of every sub topic. As always, I recommend students use the Tutor2u and Simply Psychology sites as a point of reference. Levels of explanation picture credit to Tutor2U Psychology.

Lesson covering description and evaluation of Dweck’s mindset include some AO2 application questions with model responses. Resources include a prep learning task set as homework the lesson before, however, this could be adapted to be used in lesson if needed.