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- Focus on providing high-quality resources for Psychology courses at reasonable prices - All resources are trialled with classes before publishing - UK-based practitioner with 7+ years' teaching experience - Recent examiner experience

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- Focus on providing high-quality resources for Psychology courses at reasonable prices - All resources are trialled with classes before publishing - UK-based practitioner with 7+ years' teaching experience - Recent examiner experience
AQA Psychology Practice / Mock Paper 2
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Looking for a new test or assessment your students won’t have seen? This is the second in a series of original exam papers! This is an original 2 hour 96 marks practice paper written for students studying AQA A Level Psychology. It is an unofficial Paper 2 - Psychology in Context, and so covers 24 marks in each of Approaches and Biopsychology, with then a 48 mark section in Research Methods. It has been written to match closely AQA’s material, in terms of style of questions. Mark scheme included.
AQA Psychology Practice / Mock Paper 1
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AQA Psychology Practice / Mock Paper 1

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Looking for a new test or assessment your students won’t have seen? This is an original 2 hour 96 marks practice paper written for students studying AQA A Level Psychology. It is an unofficial Paper 1 - Introductory Topics in Psychology, and so covers 24 marks in each of: Social Influence Memory Attachment Psychopathology It has been written to match closely AQA’s material, in terms of style of questions and embedded research methods. Mark scheme included.
Key ideas:  Biological Approach to Psychology
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Key ideas: Biological Approach to Psychology

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the biological approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, knowledge/application (AO1/AO2) tasks. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
AQA Practice Exam / Mock Set 1
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AQA Practice Exam / Mock Set 1

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A FULL SET OF MOCK EXAM PAPERS FOR 2021 These unseen (and UNOFFICIAL) papers have been designed to support AQA A-Level Psychology, giving your students access to original questions, and saving you time at a reasonable price. This resource download consists of three exam papers: • Paper 1 – Introductory topics in psychology • Paper 2 – Psychology in context • Paper 3 – Issues and options in psychology All three papers come with mark schemes and have been designed to reflect a real exam. Feedback very welcome. I plan to write another set in the future.
Endocrine System and Hormones
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Endocrine System and Hormones

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A resource for A-level psychology students focused on the Year One (AS) content for the biopsychology part of the course. Includes two worksheets: one on the endocrine system and one on fight-or-flight. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used successfully with several classes.
Key Ideas: The Behaviourist Approach to Psychology
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Key Ideas: The Behaviourist Approach to Psychology

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the behaviourist approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, knowledge/application (AO1/AO2) tasks. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
Key ideas: Cognitive Approach to Psychology
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Key ideas: Cognitive Approach to Psychology

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the cognitive approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, knowledge/application (AO1/AO2) tasks. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
Key ideas: Humanistic Approach to Psychology
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Key ideas: Humanistic Approach to Psychology

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the humanistic approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, knowledge/application (AO1/AO2) tasks. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
Key ideas: Psychodynamic Approach to Psychology
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Key ideas: Psychodynamic Approach to Psychology

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the psychodynamic approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, knowledge/application (AO1/AO2) tasks. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
Introducing Ethics - Milgram
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Introducing Ethics - Milgram

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This worksheet for students introduces issues around ethics in psychology, and is ideal in the first couple of lessons of the course (I begin with Social Influence anyway). Designed with the AQA specification in mind. Trialled with several classes before publication.
Psychology Christmas Crackers
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Psychology Christmas Crackers

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A set of codebreakers that reveal some poor (as appropriate for the festive period) puns loosely psychology- and Christmas-themed! Students have to match up the clues to the lettered answers (instructions on sheet). Perfect end-of-term light-hearted Paper 1 / AS revision! Has taken my classes anywhere from 15-25 mins, as a guide. Happy Holidays!
Approaches to Psychology: The 'Key Ideas' Bundle
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Approaches to Psychology: The 'Key Ideas' Bundle

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A collection of engaging worksheets for the Approaches content in A-Level psychology. Covers key knowledge for all six approaches in the AQA syllabus, with application tasks included. Can be used in class while/after you deliver content, or independently by students for research or with their textbook. Suitable for initial delivery or as a revision activity.
Social Influence: Obedience - The F-Scale
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Social Influence: Obedience - The F-Scale

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This is a reproduction/adaptation of Adorno’s F-Scale for measuring the Authoritarian Personality: the questions belong to the original authors and publishers, and are freely available online. Follow-up questions have been included for discussion. Designed with the AQA specification in mind. Trialled with several classes before publication.
Social Change: Real World Application
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Social Change: Real World Application

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This worksheet for students focuses on ithe real-life application of social change theories, such as to the suffragettes and Ghandi’s salt march (information adapted from sources such as Wikipedia). It could be used as a homework task or as consolidation/application is class. It also contains an exam-style question on healthy schools. Designed with the AQA specification in mind. Trialled with several classes before publication.
Lateralisation (Split Brain) AO1 and AO3
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Lateralisation (Split Brain) AO1 and AO3

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A resource for A-level psychology students focused on the Year Two content for the biopsychology part of the course. Includes two worksheets: one on the key study and required knowledge (AO1) for split brains (Sperry) and another for AO3 (cloze / gap fill). Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used successfully with several classes. The AO3 gap fill could be used as a basis for essay-writing.
Central and Peripheral Nervous System
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Central and Peripheral Nervous System

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the Year One (AS) ‘Nervous System’ content for the biopsychology part of the course. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used successfully with several classes.
Neurons and Synaptic Communication
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Neurons and Synaptic Communication

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A resource for A-level psychology students focused on the Year One (AS) content for the biopsychology part of the course. Includes two worksheets: one on the neuron and one on the synapse. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used successfully with several classes.
The Year One Biopsychology Bundle
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The Year One Biopsychology Bundle

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This bundle brings together resources you need for the Year One content of the biopsychology section of the A-Level psychology course. Includes worksheets for students that can be used in class, or as homework, or as a revision activity. Designed for the AQA specification in mind. Trialled with several classes before publication.
Key ideas: Social Learning Theory
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Key ideas: Social Learning Theory

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A worksheet for A-level psychology students focused on the key ideas of the social learning approach. Includes cloze tasks, key information, and application (AO2) tasks based on the Bandura et al key study. Students can complete as you deliver content, independently using textbooks, for homework, or as a revision activity. Used with several classes; students have commented on the layout and visual appeal being strengths of this resource.
Poster: Useful Language / Phrases for Your Writing
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Poster: Useful Language / Phrases for Your Writing

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This is intended to be used as a poster or handout to keep in the front of students’ folders, to be referred to in order to support students’ evaluation and discussion in particular. It includes useful phrases for implications, conjunctions, comparatives, etc, and was created as a response to students struggling to write at a high enough level in their essays.