Nick & Bethan Redshaw's A-Level Psychology Resources
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Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
Presented by Nick Redshaw - This 12 minute Video Presentation covers the Dispositional explanation for obedience the Authoritarian Personality section of our popular student workbook and includes discussion on the questions and suggested answers to questions within the our workbook including the extended question.
This presentation is ideal for creating the flipped classroom - simply post this on your VLE or Edmodo, and get your students to look at it before your lesson it is best used in conjunction with our workbooks that you can download here or get your students to buy their own print copy exclusively through Amazon (save on your photocopying budget). Ideal as part of sustained lessons or revision and will help your students achieve outstanding progress over time.
Presented by Nick Redshaw - This 12 minute Video Presentation covers the role of social influence processes in social change section of our popular student workbook and includes discussion on the questions and suggested answers to questions within the our workbook.
This presentation is ideal for creating the flipped classroom - simply post this on your VLE or Edmodo, and get your students to look at it before your lesson it is best used in conjunction with our workbooks that you can download here or get your students to buy their own print copy exclusively through Amazon (save on your photocopying budget). Ideal as part of sustained lessons or revision and will help your students achieve outstanding progress over time.
Since 2004 Nick and Bethan have worked with top independent and state schools to develop ‘Outstanding’ teaching and learning resources. " Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This eagerly anticipated powerpoint has been produced by leading authors Nick and Bethan specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 - OPTION 1 Relationships and maps onto our VERY popular Year 2 - Option 1 Relationships Workbook also available for download here on TES
This powerpoint covers Week 9;
1. Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: self-disclosure; physical attractiveness, including the matching hypothesis
2. Filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity.
Fully mapped onto the NEW Specification and SOW and has been fully crossed reference with question papers and mark schemes from Spec A, B and the New STEM. In addition includes material and terms mentioned in the SOW but not included in most ‘endorsed textbooks’ DOWNLOAD sit back and LIVE LIFE.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE ACADEMY (Psychexamhelp) and LIVE Online Course. Students need to pay a small subscription to receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page or contact Nick and Bethan information@advancedsuccess.co.uk
Since 2004 Nick and Bethan have worked with top independent and state schools to develop 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources.
" Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This eagerly anticipated powerpoint has been produced by leading authors Nick and Bethan specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 - Research Methods Additional Content and maps onto our VERY popular Student Workbook of the same name also available for download here on TES
Week 7 - Research Methods Additional Content - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Lesson 1. Research methods
a. Content analysis, coding and Thematic analysis
b. Case studies.
Lesson 2. Scientific processes
a. Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving validity.
b. Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.
c. Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.
Lesson 3. Data handling and analysis
a. Analysis and interpretation of correlation, including correlation coefficients.
b. Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval (covered in 4b).
c. Content analysis and coding. Thematic analysis (covered in 1a).
Lesson 4. Inferential testing
a. Probability and significance: Type I and Type II errors
b. Factors affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval data and experimental design. When to use the following tests: Spearman’s rho, Pearson’s r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.
c. The use of statistical tables and critical values in interpretation of significance;
d. Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test. Including the mathematical criteria the calculation of non-parametric tests.
Fully mapped onto the NEW Specification and SOW and has been fully crossed reference with question papers and mark schemes from Spec A, B and the New STEM. In addition includes material and terms mentioned in the SOW but not included in most 'endorsed textbooks' DOWNLOAD sit back and LIVE LIFE.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE ACADEMY (Psychexamhelp) and LIVE Online Course for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page or contact Nick and Bethan information@advancedsuccess.co.uk
Nick & Bethan are proud to have worked with top independent and state schools since 2004 developing 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources that have helped 1,000's of students achieve results above that of the national average.
" Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This Independent Learner Workbook (ILW) and supporting Powerpoint covers the following Learning Objectives:
Option 3 - Aggression Week 21 - Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
1. Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression, including the roles of the limbic system serotonin and testosterone
2. Genetic factors in aggression, including the MAOA gene.
Our complete Teacher Resource Pack (TRP) is available for only £595 and includes all our year 1 and year 2 teaching and learning resources or if budgets are tight for only £30 we will set up your own bespoke TRP which you can add to at your own pace.
Contact us for further information on information@advancedsuccess.co.uk
These animations cover the AQA Psychology compulsory content for Social Influence for specific details click on each resource for more details.
Individual price £12.00 Bundle price £8.00 (Saving 33%)
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
Written by leading academic authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw this answer booklet is specifically for all the questions in our social influence section of our successful and extremely popular student workbooks:
1. AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80919-5
2. A Level - Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80874-7
3. Social Influence Student Workbook
OUR Student Workbooks build on over fifteen years of outstanding success and is ideally suited for the classroom, homework, independent study, review, exam preparation and extension. (students that also use our student workbook go on to achieve outstanding results).
The AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook and Year 1 - Social Influence Student Workbook can be downloaded here on TES our A Level Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook can be purchased direct from our Amazon Bookshop
Written by leading authors and academics Nick and Bethan Redshaw this answer booklet is specifically for all the questions on the Multi Store Model of Memory, features of each store and types of long term memory in our memory section of our successful and extremely popular student workbooks:
1. AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80919-5
2. A Level - Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80874-7
3. Memory Workbook
OUR Student Workbooks build on over fifteen years of outstanding success and is ideally suited for the classroom, homework, independent study, review, exam preparation and extension. (students that also use our student workbook go on to achieve outstanding results).
The AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook and Memory Student Workbook can be downloaded here on TES our A Level Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook can be purchased direct from our Amazon Bookshop
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw this Student Workbook builds on over fifteen years of outstanding success and is ideally suited for the classroom, homework, independent study, review, exam preparation and extension.
If like us you are serious about helping students achieve their full potential they buy this resource. It will also save you hours and hours of preparation time.
Social Influence - Learning Objectives
On completion of this workbook you should be familiar with the following:
Week 1 - Types of conformity.
1. Types of conformity: internalisation, identification and compliance
2. Explanations for conformity: informational social influence and normative social influence
3. Asch (1951) Conformity in Unambiguous Situations
4. Variables affecting conformity including group size, unanimity and task difficulty
Week 2 - Conformity to social roles.
1. Conformity to social roles
2. Zimbardo’s research
Week 3 - Explanations for obedience
1. Explanations for obedience: agentic state and legitimacy of authority
2. Milgram’s (1963) study of Obedience to Authority
3. Situational variables affecting obedience including proximity, location and uniform
4. Dispositional explanation for obedience: the Authoritarian Personality.
Week 4 - Explanations of resistance to social influence
1. Explanations of resistance to social influence, including social support and locus of control
2. Minority influence including reference to consistency, commitment and flexibility
3. Moscovici et al (1969) study of minority influence
4. The role of social influence processes in social change
The supporting POWERPOINT is also available here on TES or in you want to buy our full teacher resource pack go to our website found on the right of this page.
Students can also subscribe to our A Level PsychExamhelp. to receive LIVE help and feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page.
Visual and Engaging Psychology Specific Posters by Nick and Bethan Redshaw
As most of you know we run the very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers how they can get hold of our colourful and engaging posters.
So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school.
Designed by us their aim is to break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and engage your students. A really good tip is to make your classroom specific for the Learning Cycle you are in, for example if covering Psychopathology or Approaches put up this poster and create colourful and engaging learning environments for your pupils?
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS - Option 2 - STRESS
Option 2 Stress - Learning Objectives
On completion of this Option you should be familiar with the following:
Week 1. The physiology of stress, including general adaptation syndrome, the hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal system, the sympathomedullary pathway and the role
Week 2. The role of stress in illness, including reference to immunosuppression and cardiovascular disorders.
Week 3. Sources of stress and Measuring Stress: life changes and daily hassles. Workplace stress, including the effects of workload and control. Measuring stress: self-report scales (Social Readjustment Ratings Scale and Hassles and Uplifts Scale) and physiological measures, including skin conductance response.
Week 4. Individual differences in stress: personality types A, B and C and associated behaviours; hardiness, including commitment, challenge and control.
Week 5. Managing and coping with stress: drug therapy (benzodiazepines, beta blockers), stress inoculation therapy and biofeedback. Gender differences in coping with stress. The role of social support in coping with stress; types of social support, including instrumental, emotional and esteem
support.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours and hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) are available here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Save yourself HOURS and HOURS of planning and preparation time. This comprehensive PowerPoint fully supports our popular student workbook Approaches Section on The Biological Approach (Biopsychology) also available to download from TES https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-new-specification-year-1-the-approaches-in-psychology-11206720
Fully mapped onto the NEW Specification and SOW and has been fully crossed reference with question papers and mark schemes from Spec A, B and the New STEM. In addition includes material and terms mentioned in the SOW but not included in most 'endorsed textbooks' DOWNLOAD sit back and LIVE LIFE
Already teachers and student that have bought our books tell us that they and their students 'LOVE THEM'. 52% of Students using this book last summer went on to achieve a grade A in the summer exams. Schools report best ever ALPS results.
Written by leading academic authors Nick and Bethan this No.1 Best Selling Student Workbook covers the content for AQA Year 1 and AS Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context:
1. Origins of Psychology
2. Approaches (AS/Year 1)
3. Biopsychology (AS/Year 1)
4. Resarch Methods (AS/Year 1)
5. Social Influence
6. Memory
7. Attachment
8. Psychopathology
Building on the success of their Independent Learner Series used by schools in the UK and across the world since 2004 Nick and Bethan's books and resources have helped 1000's of students achieve results 2 or 3 grades higher than they were predicted as well as saving teachers 100's of hours in planning and preparation time.
Recommend the paperback version of this book from our Amazon Bookshop to your students and save time and money on photocopying and each purchase will get the suggested answers to our workbooks FREE sent to them with their order through AMAZON.
Save yourself HOURS and HOURS of planning and preparation time. This comprehensive PowerPoint fully supports our popular student workbook Psychopathology Section on Phobias also available to download from TES https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-new-specification-year-1-psychopathology-11207004
Fully mapped onto the NEW Specification and SOW and has been fully crossed reference with question papers and mark schemes from Spec A, B and the New STEM. In addition includes material and terms mentioned in the SOW but not included in most 'endorsed textbooks' DOWNLOAD sit back and LIVE LIFE.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 2 Schizophrenia - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 15 -The Classification of Schizophrenia
1. The Classification of schizophrenia.
2. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions.
3. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including speech poverty and avolition.
4. Reliability and validity in diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia, including reference to co-morbidity, culture and gender bias and symptom overlap.
Week 16 - Biological explanations for Schizophrenia
1. The Biological explanations for schizophrenia
2. Genetics
3. The dopamine hypothesis
4. Neural correlates
Week 17 - Psychological explanations for Schizophrenia
1. Psychological explanations for schizophrenia
2. Family dysfunction
3. Cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing
Week 18 - Therapies for Schizophrenia
1. Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics
2. Cognitive behaviour therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia
3. Family therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia
4. Token economies as used in the management of schizophrenia
5. The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating
schizophrenia; the diathesis-stress model.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks will also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp) for more information contact us through our Website or Twitter
This workbook is an absolute must.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Research Methods Year 2 Additional Content - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 7 - Research methods
1. Research Methods
a. Content analysis, coding and Thematic analysis
b. Case studies.
2. Scientific processes
a. Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent
validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving
validity.
b. Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and
falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm
shifts.
c. Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract,
introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.
3. Data handling and analysis
a. Analysis and interpretation of correlation, including correlation coefficients.
b. Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval (covered in 4b).
c. Content analysis and coding. Thematic analysis (covered in 1a).
4. Inferential testing
a. Probability and significance: Type I and Type II errors
b. Factors affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval data and experimental design. When to use the following tests: Spearman’s rho, Pearson’s r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.
c. The use of statistical tables and critical values in interpretation of significance;
d. Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test. Including the mathematical criteria the calculation of non-parametric tests
This workbook is an absolute must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks will also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students need to pay an additional subscription to receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page
Written by leading teachers and authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES.
(Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 1 - Gender - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 8 - Sex and gender. Sex-role stereotypes. Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender. Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter’s syndrome and Turner’s syndrome.
Week 9 - Cognitive explanations of gender development, Kohlberg’s theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy; gender schema theory.
Week 10 - Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation.
Week 11 - Social learning theory as applied to gender development. The influence of culture
and media on gender roles.
Week 12 - Atypical gender development: gender identity disorder; biological and social explanations for gender identity disorder.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Nick & Bethan are proud to have worked with top independent and state schools since 2004 developing 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources that have helped many students achieve results above that of the national average.
" Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This Independent Learner Powerpoint covers the following Learning Objectives:
Option 2 Eating Behaviour Week 17 - Explanations for Obesity
1. Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition
and the boundary model.
Our complete Teacher Resource Pack (TRP) is available for only £595 and includes all our year 1 and year 2 teaching and learning resources or if budgets are tight for only £30 we will set up your own bespoke TRP which you can add to at your own pace.
Contact us for further information on information@advancedsuccess.co.uk
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 3 Forensic Psychology - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 21 - Defining and Measuring Crime
1. Problems in defining crime.
2. Ways of measuring crime, including official statistics, victim surveys and offender surveys.
Week 22 - Offender Profiling
1. Offender profiling
2. The top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender
3. The bottom-up approach, including investigative Psychology
4. Geographical profiling.
Week 23 - Biological Explanations of Offending Behaviour
1. An historical approach (atavistic form)
2. Genetics
3. Neural explanations.
Week 24 - Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
1. Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality
2. Cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation
3. Differential association theory
4. Psychodynamic explanations.
Week 25 - Dealing with offending behaviour
1. The aims of custodial sentencing
2. The psychological effects of custodial sentencing.
3. Recidivism.
4. Behaviour modification in custody.
5. Anger management and restorative justice programmes.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Written by leading authors and teachers Nick and Bethan Redshaw to help their students achieve their full potential. (Teacher Reference - JB Can not recommend these resources more highly! Has made the delivery of A level psych a dream! )
The WORKBOOK and supporting POWERPOINT(s) are also available individually here on TES
Student Workbook and Supporting Powerpoints Covers all the compulsary specification criteria click on each resource to view the contents it covers.