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Updated for AQA 2025 Spec – Teaching from SEPTEMBER 2025 onwards

This resource is designed for teaching Milgram’s Situational Variables under the AQA A-Level Psychology (2025 Specification). It has been fully updated to meet the revised requirements, which expect students to describe Milgram’s variation studies (proximity, location, uniform), explain their impact on obedience, and critically evaluate the methodology and implications of these findings.

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This fully editable lesson explores how simple changes in the situation — such as the physical presence of an authority figure or the prestige of the location — influenced obedience levels in Milgram’s follow-up experiments. Students are supported in building strong AO1, AO2, and AO3 skills through guided practice, application tasks, and structured evaluation activities.

What’s Included:

• Fully Editable Lesson Slides – Covers all required content on Milgram’s situational variables: proximity, location, and uniform. Includes real obedience data, accessible visuals, student-friendly summaries, and a plenary discussion on situational explanations.

• Higher or Lower Activity – Engaging starter or consolidation task where students predict whether obedience would increase or decrease in each variation and explain their reasoning.

• AO2 Application Task – Scenario-based question where students apply Milgram’s findings to real-world behaviour (e.g. obeying a security guard). Includes a bullet point model answer for quick marking or class discussion.

• Evaluate It Task – Students sort evaluation statements into strength, limitation, or both. Includes a Challenge question on how the findings could help design systems to reduce blind obedience.

• Evaluation Worksheet – Printable activity where students identify and explain AO3 points related to Milgram’s variation studies. Includes an EXT task linking to Asch’s study for further retrieval practice.

• Summary Worksheet – Students complete a table summarising each variation and its effect on obedience levels, followed by a graphing task. Great for visual learners or as a homework follow-up.

How This Resource Reflects the 2025 Specification Changes:

• Fully aligned with AQA 2025 content under Social Influence: Obedience

• Includes detailed descriptions of proximity, location, and uniform variations

• Develops evaluation skills using research (e.g. Bickman, Orne & Holland) and concepts like internal validity and ethical concerns

• Integrates real-world application through AO2 scenario tasks and challenge questions

• Supports exam skills with 4-mark question practice, model responses, and structured retrieval