Aqa Psychology Student Guide 2

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Psychology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades. Written by experienced teacher and subject expert Molly Marshall, our Student Guides are divided into two key sections, content guidance and sample questions and answers. Content guidance will: - Develop students' understanding of key concepts and terminology; this guide covers psychology in context: approaches in psychology, biopsychology and research methods. - Consolidate students' knowledge with 'knowledge check questions' at the end of each topic and answers in the back of the book. Sample questions and answers will: - Build students' understanding of the different question types, so they can approach each question with confidence. - Enable students to target top grades with sample answers and commentary explaining exactly why marks have been awarded.

AQA Approved Equip your students with the knowledge and the skills that they need for the new AQA Psychology AS and A-level; guidance on assessment objectives, activities and clear, comprehensive coverage consolidates understanding and develops key skills to ensure progression - Thoroughly engage your students with Psychology at AS and A-level through extensive real-life contemporary research - Ensure your students learn and understand content for all the key topics with popular clear, accessible style from Jean-Marc Lawton and Eleanor Willard - Help your students understand the assessment objectives and develop their examination skills with assessment guidance and checks throughout and practice questions - Ensure progression and encourage independent thinking with extension suggestions and activities - Supports co-teaching of AS and year one A-level for the new AQA specification

Fully revised to match the new 2015 specification from Eduqas, this book is written by senior examiners Lucy Hartnoll and Rhiannon Murray, alongside expert author Cara Flanagan. Packed with plenty of study and exam preparation features, it includes new studies and topics as well as extended evaluation of studies.

Written by Cara Flanagan, the UK's most trusted author for A Level Psychology. // Whether you are aiming for an A* or a C this guide is a friend to keep with you from the start to the end of your course. // Put the advice into practice and it will help you get the grade you deserve. // Use this guide regardless of your choice of student book. // Chapter 1: The specification - Looking at what the words in the specification actually mean and how they translate into exam questions. // Chapter 2: The exam and skills required - All you need to know about how the different skills are examined and what you need to do to develop these skills. // Chapter 3: Research methods and mathematical content - If you attain full marks on these questions, you have almost achieved a pass mark on this content alone. // Chapter 4: Understanding how exam answers are marked - An insight into the examining process so you can provide the right kind of answers. // Chapter 5: Studying and revising - Little and often. Helping you make a plan that can be adapted and revisited until it works for you. // Chapter 6: Aiming for A* - Life is what you make it. // Chapter 7: Taking the exam - How to use your time wisely in the weeks leading up to the exam, and also in the exam itself. // Chapter 8: Mock exams - One for AS and one for A level. Mark schemes and suggested answers are provided online.

Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers to help improve exam technique. Written by experienced Psychology teacher and subject expert Molly Marshall, the Student Guides for AQA AS and A-level Psychology: - Provide a concise summary of the topics covered in the AS and A-level specifications - Consolidate understanding with tips and knowledge check questions - Provide opportunities to improve exam technique with sample graded answers to exam-style questions - Develop independent learning and research skills - Provide the content for generating individual revision notes

Written by experienced examiner Molly Marshall, this student guide for psychology identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the A-level specifications. It enables you to measure your understanding with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers at the end of the guide and helps you to improve your exam technique with sample answers to exam-style questions.

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Psychology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades. Written by experienced teacher and subject expert Molly Marshall, our Student Guides are divided into two key sections, content guidance and sample questions and answers. Content guidance will: - Develop students' understanding of key concepts and terminology; this guide covers introductory topics in psychology: social influence, memory, attachment and psychopathology. - Consolidate students' knowledge with 'knowledge check questions' at the end of each topic and answers in the back of the book. Sample questions and answers will: - Build students' understanding of the different question types, so they can approach each question with confidence. - Enable students to target top grades with sample answers and commentary explaining exactly why marks have been awarded.