AQA A-Level Psychology: Full Social Influence Topic [2025 Specification]

This comprehensive bundle is designed in line with the latest AQA A-Level Specification - 2025

It provides everything you need to teach the Social Influence topic in an engaging and structured way, with each lesson PowerPoint having an accompanying booklet for you to print.

Included Lessons:

1. Types and Explanations of Conformity – Understanding different forms of conformity and their explanations.
2. Asch’s Research & variations – Unanimity, Group Size, Task Difficulty
3. Milgram’s Baseline research – Investigating obedience to authority through Milgram’s groundbreaking experiment.
4. Milgram’s Situational Variables – How situational factors impact obedience - Location, Proximity, Uniform.
5. Situational Explanation of Obedience – Delving into factors like legitimacy of authority and the agentic state.
6. Dispositional Explanation of Obedience - The Authoritarian Personality – Understanding obedience through personality traits.
7. Resistance to Social Influence – Exploring the factors that help individuals resist pressures to conform or obey.
8. Minority Influence – How minority groups can bring about social change.

Each lesson includes:
‘Do Now’ activity
Active learning activities
Knowledge checks throughout
Real-world applications
PEEL evaluation tables (full PEEL’s included)
Exam practice

Please see the notes section for answers to questions, teacher elaboration, links to videos etc.

For more details, please see individual lesson descriptions.

If you have any questions, need assistance with resources, or would like to provide feedback, please reach out at thrivesocialscience@gmail.com

The content that we look at in lessons has so many applications to the world around us, and so I have set up an instagram where I will be sharing both historical and current examples. I will be using this in lessons as either a ‘Do Now’ or plenary activity - with the aim of making student think critically about the world around them. I hope this will be a useful, free resource for teachers. Link below:

https://www.instagram.com/thrivesocialstudies

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