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Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Designed for AQA but could be used for other boards. This is a booklet of activities the students work through for revision on research methods. I have included answers for the statistics section of the booklet.
Includes:
Hypotheses
Variables
Ethics
Sampling methods
Research methods
Validity
Reliability
Statistics
Data
Distributions
Features of Science
I have included a PDF version and a word version. The word version doesn’t always keep all its formatting when it is opened on different laptops so I would stick with the pdf version.
This was designed to work with a teacher presentation that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revision-for-research-methods-teacher-presentation-aqa-psychology-could-be-used-for-other-boards-11623128
Designed to recap the whole Schizophrenia module for AQA Psychology Teacher and Student Versions. . It includes diagnosis and classification, explanations, treatments and interactionist approach. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
This can be bought as part of a bundle with Schizophrenia revision activities.
I have also uploaded some revision powerpoints for first year topics too (Psychopathology, memory, attachment) and some second year (forensic)
Resources for two-three lessons on the cognitive approach, includes vidoes, worksheets, activities and powerpoint.
Students have a notes sheet that they complete while going through the ppt.
1. Mental processes, including inferences and schema’s. This is packed with fun activities for students to try out to show them their mental processing (including loads of videos).
2. Comparing the mind to computers, cognitive neuroscience and evaluation of the cognitive approach (using the GHG book) and a match task to consolidate PEEL paragraphs.
Also included is some exam questions to use as a test for students and some good student responses and a summary crossword with answers. Plus a sample 16 mark answer essay.
This is a full lesson resource for case studies and content analysis for AQA Psychology. It covers the description and strengths and weaknesses. It has an activity to carry out a quantitative content analysis on some made up lonely hearts ads. They can do an inter-rater check as well to ensure consistency between two observers.
It includes a ppt and a notes sheet with activities throughout to check learning. The students complete
the notes sheet as we work through the ppt so they have some bits to fill in and activities to complete.
Full lesson, activities for Aqa Psychology new spe c issues and debates. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper). This notes sheet has some activities inbedded in it.
Activities include:
A card sort
A match task for evaluation
Exam Questions
Lesson is designed to last about 90 mins.
Designed to recap the whole memory topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shorten notes for MSM, WMM, EWT, Types of LTM, Forgetting.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
Also included an applied activity to get them to apply their knowledge of memory concepts to 6 example scenarios.
I have also uploaded an attachment and Psychopathology one.
This lesson is about learning how to compare the approaches for the AQA Specification A2 topic.
It has a few activities comparing the approaches and goes through how to write comparison paragraphs instead of standard strengths and weaknesses.
It has a powerpoint, applied activities, notes sheet for students to use and several sample essays.
Designed to recap the whole issues and debates module for AQA Psychology 2015 spec.
Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete it before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for some first year topics and Gender, Forensic and Schizophrenia in second year topics.
Full topic summary for revision for AQA Psychology - Includes wundt, cognitive, biological, behaviourist, social learning theory, psychodynamic and humanism approaches.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes I make them complete the slide independently first, to see what they know before going through the teacher version.
There is a similar resource but with loads of exam questions and advice for answering them throughout on this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12814124
Includes powerpoint and activities for Types of Experiments lesson.
It includes Table for students (blank and partially filled in)
Sample exam questions and a simplified mark scheme for peer assessment
Identifying type of experiment
Also uploaded experimental designs full lesson
Designed to recap the whole of first and second year biopsychology for AQA Psychology. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for all first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia and Issues and Debates for the other second year topics.
Made for AQAPsychology A-level but could be easily adapted for other boards. This is a presentation I work through with my students while they are revising research methods - it includes over 60 slides (some with content and some with indications of a task to complete).
I usually teach short sections of research methods and then get them to complete the activities in the corresponding booklet.
This took me 3-4 lessons of 90 minutes each to complete it all but some could be set for homework.
This includes a sample essay on designing research and a summary table for features of science which are areas students often struggle with.
The corresponding booklet can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/research-methods-revision-booklet-of-activities-28-pages-aqa-psychology-11623089?theme=0
Designed to recap the whole attachment topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shorten notes for interactions, role of father, animal studies, strange situation, explanations, maternal deprivation, institutionalisation and influence of childhood attachment.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
If you like this the same revision powerpoints are available for the following topics and can be bought as bundles:
Memory
Social Influence
Psychopathology
Approaches
Biopsychology
Forensic
Schizophrenia
Gender
Issues and Debates
A full lesson (1 hr 30-2 hrs) on Types of Observations for AQA Psychology. This includes:
-A powerpoint which outlines types of observations, evaluation of observations, sampling procedures, behavioural categories and inter-rater reliability.
-A summary table
-Activities on observations
-Exam Questions on Observations
-Ideas for designing their own observation
This includes revision summary ppts for all paper 1 A2 topics.
Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
A couple revision lessons on the approaches - would take me at least 2-3 hours probably to cover this as its a 66 slide ppt with 10 documents in total. Couldlast even more if you get them to try out some of the exam questions and do all the worksheets.
PPT: Has short summaries of each of the approaches and then a series of exam questions, on each approach, to show key exam technique, advice for answering and sometimes sample answers.
Included is a student version with blanks to fill in, or to use to test their knowledge before going over each topic.
Documents: Includes a couple essay answer samples as well and lots of summary quick recall activities (blank table, key word knowledge check, crossword etc).
A series of revision activities for a summary lesson or revision lesson at the end of the topic.
1 - Key Term Cards. Great for playing bingo, describing to a partner, pictionary etc
2 - Crossword and answers
3 - brief points test
4 - applied exam questions
5 - blank summary table for students to complete
This is a very detailled presentation (47 slides) about approaching AQA exam questions.
It covers:
Evaluation
Comparison
Application
Terminology (e.g use of the words reliability and validity)
It gives advice and examples to demonstrate how to succeed in AQA exams. Great for a revision lesson with students.
Full lesson and activities for Aqa Psychology new spec issues and debates. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper).
Includes some activities:
Topic sort (based on Forensic, Gender and Schizophrenia topics - though could be adapted)
Exam Questions
Essay Plans
Video Links
A full lesson set of resources for AQA Psychology Social Learning theory.
It includes:
A PPT with video links
Notes Sheet - I get students to take notes into the sheet as it runs alongside the ppt
Evaluation task
Essay Plan Sheet
Summary activities, including leaflet instructions, gap fill and spot the mistakes, white board questions