Dates:
Wednesday 28 April 2021 – 4pm
Code: 7871
About this webinar
Ensure your students are prepared on the key topics for their exam preparation with this focused one-hour webinar on AQA A Level Psychology Paper 2.
Led by senior examiner Jean-Marc, students will explore the best ways to revise key topics for the AQA Paper 2 and demonstrates how to translate those into excellent A level answers which can access the highest grades.
This interactive webinar will provide your students with:
Focus on key areas of Paper 2 topics, including:
- Biological rhythms
- Learning approaches
- The use of comparison to gain AO3 credit
- Answering application questions
BENEFITS OF THIS WEBINAR
- Gain a developed understanding of key areas of Paper 2 topics
- Explore what examiners are looking for in top level answers
- Focus on content essential to the formation of top-level answers on Biopsychology and Psychological approaches
- Take away strategies for creating answers that access to top-band marks
- Look at example responses showing what examiners look for and what to avoid
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All students of AQA A level Psychology
4.00pm
Introduction and welcome
4.05pm
Biopsychology: Focus on key topic areas
- Revising circadian biological rhythms
- Ultradian biological rhythms
- Infradian biological rhythms
- The role of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers
4.20pm
Strategies for the formation of top level responses to application questions
- How to produce excellent answers – reaching the top mark band every time
4.30pm
Student Activity
- Feedback on student responses
4.35 pm Producing excellent exam answers on Psychological approaches
- Learning approaches – the key to revising these successfully
- Classical and operant conditioning
- Social learning theory: what makes a good answer on these
4.50 pm The use of comparison to gain AO3 credit
- Analysing, interpreting and evaluating scientific information, ideas and evidence, to make judgements and reach conclusions
4.55pm Student Activity on short answer questions
- Assessing the quality of Paper 2 answers using comparison
- Final questions and answers
Jean-Marc Lawton
Jean-Marc is an experienced A-level examiner, lecturer and teacher of psychology and has written many highly regarded books on the subject. He has also worked in a senior capacity for several exam boards and has a wealth of experience and advice to give to teachers and students of the subject.