Nick & Bethan Redshaw's A-Level Psychology Resources
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Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
Nick and Bethan are co-authors of the highly successful independent learner series of student workbooks and have been teaching A level Psychology since 1999 and involved in Examining for over 15 years.
This Outstanding (OFSTED) Medium Term Lesson Plan covers the whole of Week 24 Bowlby Theory of Maternal Deprivation:
Learning Objectives
On completion of this week your students should be familiar with the following:
1. Bowlby’s Theory of Maternal Deprivation
2. Romanian orphan studies and the effects of institutionalisation.
3. The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role
of the internal working model.
This resources is best used alongside our other outstanding resources also found here on TES but we have made it available in Word Format and can be fully adapted with minimum effort to your own resources. Also contact us about you and your students joining our ONLINE Community for Live feedback and eAssessments.
Written by leading teachers and authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES.
(Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 1 - Gender - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 8 - Sex and gender. Sex-role stereotypes. Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender. Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter’s syndrome and Turner’s syndrome.
Week 9 - Cognitive explanations of gender development, Kohlberg’s theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy; gender schema theory.
Week 10 - Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation.
Week 11 - Social learning theory as applied to gender development. The influence of culture
and media on gender roles.
Week 12 - Atypical gender development: gender identity disorder; biological and social explanations for gender identity disorder.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
This animation covers the AQA Psychology learning objectives for Research Methods and looks specifically at the Experimental Design
Animation 1 - Introduction to Experimental Design
Poster 1 Independent Group Design
Poster 2 Matched Participant Design
Poster 3 Repeated Measures Design
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
Nick & Bethan are proud to have worked with top independent and state schools since 2004 developing 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources that have helped many students achieve results above that of the national average.
" Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This Independent Learner Powerpoint covers the following Learning Objectives:
Option 2 Eating Behaviour Week 17 - Explanations for Obesity
1. Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition
and the boundary model.
Our complete Teacher Resource Pack (TRP) is available for only £595 and includes all our year 1 and year 2 teaching and learning resources or if budgets are tight for only £30 we will set up your own bespoke TRP which you can add to at your own pace.
Contact us for further information on information@advancedsuccess.co.uk
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 2 Eating Behaviour - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 15 -Explanations for Food Preferences
1. The evolutionary explanation, including reference to neophobia and taste aversion
2. The role of learning in food preference, including social and cultural influences
3. Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour, including the role of the hypothalamus, ghrelin and leptin.
Week 16 - Explanations for Anorexia Nervosa
1. Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa:
· family systems theory, including enmeshment, autonomy and control;
· social learning theory, including modelling, reinforcement and media;
· cognitive theory, including distortions and irrational beliefs.
Week 17 - Explanations for Obesity
1. Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition and the boundary model.
Week 18 - Dieting
1. Explanations for the success and failure of dieting
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks will also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students will receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback for more information go to our website at the right hand side of the page or contact us through Twitter
Visual and Engaging Psychology Specific Posters by Nick and Bethan Redshaw
As most of you know we run the very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers how they can get hold of our colourful and engaging posters.
So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school.
Designed by us their aim is to break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and engage your students. A really good tip is to make your classroom specific for the Learning Cycle you are in, for example if covering Social Influence put up your Social Influence posters and create colourful and engaging learning environments for your pupils?
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3.
Written by leading authors and academics Nick and Bethan Redshaw this answer booklet is specifically for all the questions on the Explanations of Forgetting in our memory section of our successful and extremely popular student workbooks:
1. AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80919-5
2. A Level - Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook ISBN 978-1-326-80874-7
3. Memory Workbook
OUR Student Workbooks build on over fifteen years of outstanding success and is ideally suited for the classroom, homework, independent study, review, exam preparation and extension. (students that also use our student workbook go on to achieve outstanding results).
The AS Level - Introductory Topics and Psychology in Context Workbook and Year 1 - Social Influence Student Workbook can be downloaded here on TES our A Level Paper 1 Introductory Topics Student Workbook can be purchased direct from our Amazon Bookshop
Visual and Engaging Psychology Specific Posters by Nick and Bethan Redshaw
As most of you know we run the very popular Psychexamhelp on Twitter. Many a time we have been asked by teachers how they can get hold of our colourful and engaging posters.
So by popular demand we have posted them here on TES all you need to do is print them out at your school.
Designed by us their aim is to break down the AQA Psychology Specification into easily digestible chunks of information. Our visual and attention grabbing designs are guaranteed to brighten up your classrooms and engage your students. A really good tip is to make your classroom specific for the Learning Cycle you are in, for example if covering Research methods put up this research methods poster and create colourful and engaging learning environments for your pupils?
We offer over 100 different designs, covering all the psychology topics topics, from Paper 1 through to Paper 3.
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This PowerPoint fully supports our popular student workbook Psychopathology Section on Depression and covers the following learning objective:
Lesson 10 - OCD - The biological approach to treating OCD
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This PowerPoint fully supports our popular Attachment Section of our Popular Student Workbooks and covers the following learning objective:
Lesson 4 -Caregiver-infant interactions in humans
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This PowerPoint fully supports our popular Memory Section of our Popular Student Workbooks and covers the following learning objective:
Lesson 10 - Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
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This PowerPoint fully supports our popular Social Influence Section of our Popular Student Workbooks and covers the following learning objective:
Lesson 12 - The role of social influence processes in social change
SAVE 33% - These Outstanding (OFSTED) Medium Term Lesson Plans cover all the AS/Year 1 Lesson Plans for Psychopathology
For more details on each resource click on the resource below:
These animations cover the AQA Psychology learning objectives for Attachment Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory of Attachment including the concepts of a critical period and an internal working model and looks specifically at:
Animation 1 - Bowlby's theory of Attachment
Animation 2 - Evaluation of Bowlby's Theory of Attachment
Ideal for engaging those visual and auditory learners and consolidation of classroom learning can be easily added to school VLE's and learning platforms.
Also ideal for private study and last minute revision.
Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )
Option 3 Forensic Psychology - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:
Week 21 - Defining and Measuring Crime
1. Problems in defining crime.
2. Ways of measuring crime, including official statistics, victim surveys and offender surveys.
Week 22 - Offender Profiling
1. Offender profiling
2. The top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender
3. The bottom-up approach, including investigative Psychology
4. Geographical profiling.
Week 23 - Biological Explanations of Offending Behaviour
1. An historical approach (atavistic form)
2. Genetics
3. Neural explanations.
Week 24 - Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
1. Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality
2. Cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation
3. Differential association theory
4. Psychodynamic explanations.
Week 25 - Dealing with offending behaviour
1. The aims of custodial sentencing
2. The psychological effects of custodial sentencing.
3. Recidivism.
4. Behaviour modification in custody.
5. Anger management and restorative justice programmes.
This workbook is a must and will help your students achieve their potential in the NEW A Level Exams as well as saving you hours of preparation time. IDEAL for developing the flipped classroom. The supporting POWERPOINT(s) will also be available soon here on TES.
Our workbooks are also be supported by our Unique LIVE ONLINE AREA (Psychexamhelp). Students can also receive LIVE help and exam performance feedback at a small extra cost for more information go to our website or contact us through twitter.
Presented by Nick Redshaw - This 10 minute Video Presentation covers Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony, including the use of the cognitive interview section of our popular student workbook and includes discussion on the questions and suggested answers to questions within the our workbook.
This presentation is ideal for creating the flipped classroom - simply post this on your VLE or Edmodo, and get your students to look at it before your lesson it is best used in conjunction with our workbooks that you can download here or get your students to buy their own print copy exclusively through Amazon (save on your photocopying budget). Ideal as part of sustained lessons or revision and will help your students achieve outstanding progress over time.
Since 2004 Nick and Bethan have worked with top independent and state schools to develop 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources.
This Outstanding (OFSTED) Medium Term Lesson Plan covers the whole of Week 04 Data Handling and Analysis (LOTS of Maths - a must have..)
Learning Objectives
On completion of this week your students should be familiar with the following:
1. Types of data
· Quantitative and qualitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques.
· Primary and secondary data, including meta-analysis.
2. Descriptive statistics
· Measures of central tendency – mean, median, mode; calculation of mean, median and mode
· Measures of dispersion; range and standard deviation; calculation of range;
· Calculation of percentages.
3. Graphs
· Presentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar charts.
· Distributions: normal and skewed distributions; characteristics of normal and skewed distributions.
4. Analysis and interpretation of correlation, including correlation coefficients
5. Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test.
This resource is best used alongside our other outstanding resources also found here on TES but we have made it available in Word Format and can be fully adapted with minimum effort to your own resources. Also contact us about you and your students joining our ONLINE Community for Live feedback and eAssessments.
SPECIAL OFFER (by popular request) includes the Attachment Workbook, MTLP Lesson Plans and all the PowerPoint’s for the Attachment Topic:
Content includes;
Week 1 - Explanations of Attachment
Lesson 1 - Animal studies of attachment Lorenz and Harlow
Lesson 2 - Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory of Attachment
Lesson 3 - The Learning Theory of Attachment
Week 2 - Caregiver-infant interactions in humans
Lesson 4 -Caregiver-infant interactions in humans
Lesson 5 - Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer
Lesson 6 - Multiple attachments and the role of the father
Week 3 - Types of Attachment
Lesson 7 - Use of the “Strange Situation”
Lesson 8 - Cultural variations in attachment including van Ijzendoorn
Week 4 - Bowlbys Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Lesson 9 - Bowlbys Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Lesson 10 - Romanian orphan studies
Lesson 11 - The influence of early attachment
SPECIAL OFFER (by popular request) includes the Psychopathology Workbook, MTLP Lesson Plans and all the PowerPoint’s for the Psychopathology Topic:
Content includes;
Week 1 - Definitions of Abnormality
Lesson 1 - Definitions of Abnormality, Deviation from social norms, Failure to function adequately, Statistical infrequency, Deviation from ideal mental
Week 2 - Phobias
Lesson 2 - Phobias - The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias
Lesson 3 - Phobias- The behavioural approach to explaining phobias; the two-process model, including classical and operant conditioning.
Lesson 4 - Phobias - The behavioural approach to treating phobias; systematic desensitisation, including relaxation and use of hierarchy; flooding.
Week 3 - Depression
Lesson 5 - Depression - The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of depression
Lesson 6 - Depression - The cognitive approach to explaining depression; Beck’s negative triad and Ellis’s ABC model
Lesson 7 - Depression - The cognitive approach to treating depression; cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including challenging irrational thoughts.
Week 4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Lesson 8 - OCD - The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of OCD
Lesson 9 - OCD - The biological approach to explaining OCD; genetic and neural explanations
Lesson 10 - OCD - The biological approach to treating OCD; drug therapy
Nick & Bethan are proud to have worked with top independent and state schools since 2004 developing 'Outstanding' teaching and learning resources that have helped many students achieve results above that of the national average.
" Nick and Bethan your student workshop was fantastic pitched at the right level, we will definitely be using you again next year for both Year 12 and Year 13 - excellent resources" Inner London School.
This Independent Learner Powerpoint covers the following Learning Objectives:
Option 2 Eating Behaviour Week 16 - Explanations for Anorexia Nervosa
1. Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa, including genetic and neural explanations.
2. Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa:
· family systems theory, including enmeshment, autonomy and control;
· social learning theory, including modelling, reinforcement and media;
· cognitive theory, including distortions and irrational beliefs.
Our complete Teacher Resource Pack (TRP) is available for only £595 and includes all our year 1 and year 2 teaching and learning resources or if budgets are tight for only £30 we will set up your own bespoke TRP which you can add to at your own pace.
Contact us for further information on information@advancedsuccess.co.uk