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A Warm Welcome!
An Introduction to Learning Path Courses . A guide to getting an A*
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Learning Path 🚀 — An Introduction to the Course 📚✨
Previewing the Mylearning Path Platform
The A* Manual.
Social Influence
🧍‍♂️ Social Influence — October A fast-paced recap on conformity, obedience, and resistance to social influence. Includes mock questions and evaluation practice to consolidate Paper 1 knowledge.
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14 October 2025 18:30 – Live Lesson Social Influence – Conformity
Podcast 🎧 Social Influence: Conformity & Obedience
🎥 Video – Social Influence Explained: Conformity & Obedience
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16 October 2025 18:30 – Live Lesson Social Influence – Conformity Lesson 2
Social Influence Homework 1 - Conformity and Obedience
Issues and Debates
⚖️ Issues and Debates — October Explore the big ideas behind psychology — nature vs nurture, free will vs determinism, gender and cultural bias, and ethical implications. Essential for Paper 3 essays.
Biopsychology
🧩 Biopsychology — November Advance your biological understanding of the brain and behaviour, revisiting nervous and endocrine systems, localisation, and plasticity. Builds on Year 12 knowledge for Paper 2.
Approaches in Psychology
🧬 Approaches in Psychology — December–January Compare and evaluate key approaches — behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, biological, and humanistic — linking them to issues and debates. Strong Paper 2 and 3 crossover topic.
Research Methods
📊 Research Methods — December Deepen your understanding of experimental design, reliability, validity, and statistics. Includes advanced exam questions and mock assessments to master Paper 2.
Relationships
❤️ Relationships — January Learn how and why romantic relationships form, develop, and break down. Covers theories such as filter theory, self-disclosure, and virtual relationships.
Gender
⚧️ Gender — January Study biological, social, and cognitive explanations of gender development, alongside gender schema theory and androgyny. Practice short and extended essays.
Cognition and Development
🧠 Cognition and Development — January Explore cognitive development in children, including Piaget’s theory, Vygotsky’s social development theory, and Baillargeon’s findings.
Schizophrenia
🧍‍♀️ Schizophrenia — February Understand symptoms, classifications, and explanations of schizophrenia (biological, cognitive, and interactionist). Includes treatments and evaluation of research.
Eating Behavior
🍽️ Eating Behaviour — February Study the biological and psychological factors influencing eating behaviour, including neural and hormonal mechanisms, eating disorders, and cultural influences.
Stress
😖 Stress — February Examine biological and psychological responses to stress, its effects on health, and stress management strategies.
Aggression
💢 Aggression — March Analyse social and biological causes of aggression — including neural, hormonal, and evolutionary explanations — plus media influences.
Forensic Psychology
🕵️ Forensic Psychology — –March Investigate offender profiling, explanations of offending behaviour, and ways of dealing with offenders. A key applied topic for Paper 3.
Addiction
💊 Addiction — March Learn the biological, cognitive, and learning explanations of addiction, risk factors, and treatment strategies.
YEAR 13 – AQA A-Level Psychology

🎥 Live Lesson: Social Influence — Conformity

Join us for today’s AQA A-level Psychology live session on Conformity, part of the Social Influence topic.

We’ll explore:

  • Why people conform

  • The different types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalisation

  • Key studies, including Asch’s conformity experiments

By the end of the lesson, you’ll understand how group pressure influences behaviour and how psychologists have investigated conformity through research.

🕠 Live session starts at 6:30 PM (UK time) on 14 October 2025.
👉 Join the session using the link below.

📘 Workbook: The workbook for this lesson is attached — please download it and complete it throughout the session as we go through each section together.

After the live lesson, the recording and resources will be available here for revision and review.

Exercise Files
Student copy of Social Influence (1).pdf
Size: 12.28 MB
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