Updated for AQA 2025 Spec – Teaching from SEPTEMBER 2025 onwards
This resource is designed for teaching Anxiety as a Factor Affecting the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony (EWT) under the updated AQA A-Level Psychology (2025 Specification). The 2025 spec retains the study of anxiety as a key factor in EWT and explicitly requires students to understand contradictory findings and apply the Yerkes–Dodson Law.
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What’s Included:
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Fully Editable Lesson Slides – Covers how anxiety influences memory recall, with clear explanations of the weapon focus effect, Yerkes–Dodson Law, and contrasting studies (Johnson & Scott, 1976; Yuille & Cutshall, 1986). Includes “Do Now” activities, “Think, Pair, Share” tasks, and embedded video links to bring the topic to life.
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Make it a Headline Task – Creative literacy-based activity where students summarise key research studies as punchy newspaper headlines for The Psychology Times. Great for engagement, retrieval, and literacy skills.
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Evaluation Worksheet – Builds AO3 skills through guided prompts and structured writing practice, helping students explore issues such as ecological validity, ethical concerns, demand characteristics, and reductionism.
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Evaluate It Task – A collaborative task where students categorise evaluation points as strengths, limitations, or both, then decide which would be most persuasive in a courtroom. Encourages deep thinking and discussion.
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Exam Practice Questions – Includes a 4-mark evaluation question and an AO2 application scenario (based on a fictional witness). Model answers are provided to support self-assessment and exam technique.
How This Resource Reflects the 2025 Specification Changes:
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Fully updated in line with AQA’s 2025 A-Level Psychology spec for the Memory topic
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Covers both positive and negative effects of anxiety on recall, including required research
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Explicit focus on the Yerkes–Dodson Law to explain contradictory findings
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Embedded AO1, AO2, and AO3 tasks to build exam skills and specification fluency
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Includes engaging and differentiated activities for classroom use or independent learning
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**Updated for Sept 2025 | AQA A-Level Psychology** This complete bundle includes 8 fully resourced lessons, designed for the updated 2025 AQA A-Level Psychology specification. **What’s Included**: * Editable lesson slides * Worksheets, recap tasks and activities * Exam-style questions with model answers * Engaging tasks such as “Evaluate It” and “Make it a Headline” ***All resources are provided as fully editable PowerPoints and Word documents.*** **Lessons Covered**: 1. Coding, Capacity & Duration 2. The Multi-Store Model of Memory 3. The Working Memory Model 4. Interference Theory as an Explanation for Forgetting 5. Retrieval Failure as an Explanation for Forgetting 6. Leading Questions & Post-Event Discussion as a Factor affecting EWT 7. Anxiety & Eyewitness Testimony as a Factor affecting EWT 8. The Cognitive Interview as a Factor affecting EWT Each lesson is also available individually at £5.50. Refer to each lesson for a more detailed description of what’s included. If you found this bundle useful, please consider leaving a review — your feedback helps other teachers too!
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