AQA Paper 2 - Approaches - Induction Activity

This induction activity was written for AQA Paper 2, but could be used for any awarding body.

The student task involves them reading the brief summaries of the approaches provided and then doing further research. They are placed in one of four groups: - Biological, Behaviourist, Cognitive or Psychodynamic. They prepare a presentations (a poster and a brief talk) that uses the psychological approach that they have been given to explain the behaviour in the scenario. They will then be expected to give a brief critique of their explanation (What is wrong with it? What alternative explanation can you think of?)

The homework task is to write an overview explaining the behaviour in the scenario from all four approaches and giving a critique of each.

This works really well as an induction activity as it enables the teacher to perform an initial assessment of students’ strengths and weaknesses.