Year 12  Psychology

Exam Board - AQA

This guide is for your information on your Independent Learning . It will ensure you have the best preparation for Psychology as an A level subject. It provides you with an overview of when each independent learning task will be set. You should complete each quiz on time and you should use this as a guide to ensure you are completing your handouts

Topic Areas Covered

Independent Study Tasks

Resources to Support Independent Study

Half Term 1

Sep - Oct

Key Approaches

Research Methods

  • Complete the relevant pages of the Research Methods Handbook.
  • Use  the checklist as a revision guide and complete the ‘CHECKLIST’ of all potential questions.
  • Develop your PLAN book and ‘tick off’ the plans of essays you have made.

Handbooks  for Research Methods & Biopsychology.

Online textbook Hodder.

Your checklists are pasted in the front of each of your class notebooks.

 You have been issued with a PLAN book and ‘Tick’ list.

Attend Plan Club after school

Attend all of the Assessments and Feedback sessions

Half Term 2

Oct-Dec

As above

Handbooks

Online textbook Hodder

Systematically refer to the ‘Revision list’ that has been issued prior to your Assessment.

Half Term 3

Jan-Feb

Attachment

Psychopathology

  • Complete the relevant section of the Handbook.
  • Use  the checklist as a revision guide and complete the CHECKLIST of all potential questions
  • Develop your PLAN book and tick off the plans of essays you have made

  • Complete the relevant section of the Handbook.
  • Use  the ‘checklist’ as a revision guide and complete the ‘CHECKLIST’ of all potential questions.
  • Develop your PLAN book and tick off the plans of essays you have made.

Handbooks

Online textbook Hodder

Half Term 4

Feb-Mar

As Above

Handbooks

Online textbook Hodder

Half Term 5Apr-May

Memory

Forgetting

  • Complete the relevant section of the Handbook.
  • Use  the checklist as a revision guide and complete the CHECKLIST of all potential questions.
  • Develop your PLAN book and tick off the plans of essays you have made.

Handbooks.

Online textbook Hodder.

Your checklists are pasted in the front of each of your class notebooks.

 You have been issued with a PLAN book and ‘Tick’ list.

Attend Plan Club after school

Attend all of the Assessments and Feedback sessions

Half Term 6

June-July

Social Influence (continues in to Year 13)

Biopsychology (continues in to Year 13)

  • Complete the relevant sections of the Handbook.
  • Use  the checklist as a revision guide and complete the CHECKLIST of all potential questions.
  • Develop your PLAN book and tick off the plans of essays you have made.

  • Complete the relevant sections of the Handbook.
  • Use  the checklist as a revision guide and complete the CHECKLIST of all potential questions.
  • Develop your PLAN book and tick off the plans of essays you have made.

Handbooks.

Online textbook Hodder.

Your checklists are pasted in the front of each of your class notebooks.

 You have been issued with a PLAN book and ‘Tick’ list.

Attend Plan Club after school

Attend all of the Assessments and Feedback sessions