
AQA Psychology A Level topic ‘Research Methods’ for the 2025 specification.
Lesson:
Introduction to types of validity across all methods of investigation: ecological validity and temporal validity.
Variables: extraneous variables.
Demand characteristics and investigator effects, and their effect on validity.
(Does not cover measuring validity and how to improve it, this is taught in a future lesson).
AO1 and AO2. Lots of AfL and different activities embedded throughout, including exam questions for each spec point. Finishes with an indepndent task sheet.
Includes:
teacher slide (recall starter, information, activities, and independent practice - answers to every task)
Task sheet - please note I upload these to google classroom so you may need to edit if you print this resource.
Fits into a double lesson (100 mins/2hours)
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