AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Approaches’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: The cognitive approach: the study of internal mental processes, the role of schema, the use of models to explain and make inferences about mental processes. AO1 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Approaches’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: Learning approaches: ii) social learning theory including imitation, identification, vicarious reinforcement, the role of mediational processes and Bandura’s research. AO1, AO2 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Approaches’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: Learning approaches: i) the behaviourist approach, including classical conditioning and Pavlov’s research, operant conditioning, types of reinforcement and Skinner’s research AO1, and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Schizophrenia’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia; the diathesis-stress model. AO1, AO2 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam question. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Schizophrenia’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics. AO1, and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam question. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Clinical Psychology and Mental Health’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: The biological approach to treating OCD: drug therapy. AO1 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Clinical Psychology and Mental Health’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: The biological approach to explaining OCD: genetic and neural explanations. AO1 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam question. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Schizophrenia’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing. AO1 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam question. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, scaffolding AO3 paragraphs and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Schizophrenia’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics and neural correlates, including the dopamine hypothesis. AO1 and AO3. Different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Attachment’. Lesson: Cultural variations in attachment, including van Ijzendoorn - aims, procedures, findings, conclusions, evaluation, exam technique Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities and independent practice - answers to every task) task sheets Fits into a double lesson (50mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Attachment’. Lesson: Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’. Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure-resistant. Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities and independent practice - answers to every task) task sheets Fits into a double lesson (50mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Attachment’. Lesson: Explanations of attachment: learning theory; behaviourism; key terms; evaluation; exam questions Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities and independent practice - answers to every task) task sheets Fits into a double lesson (50mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Attachment’. Lesson: Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow - aims, procedures, findings, conclusions, evaluation, exam technique Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities and independent practice - answers to every task) task sheet Fits into a double lesson (50mins/2hours)

AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Approaches’ for the new 2025 specification. Lesson: The biological approach: the genetic basis of behaviour: genotype, phenotype and evolution. Influence of biological structures and neurochemistry on behaviour. Cognitive neuroscience. AO1 and AO3. Assumptions, different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions. I have separated cognitive neuroscience into a separate lesson (included). Includes: teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, and independent practice - answers to every task) Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)