Year 10 Psychology

Year 10 Psychology

Y10 Psychology

Welcome to our Year 10 Psychology revision hub. Here you can find details of the exam board & specification, when your mock exams will take place, what will be tested in the exam and how you should revise and prepare.

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Exam Board: AQA GCSE Psychology (8182)

Specification: Click here to access the exam board specification – click here

Mock Exam Details

Date: Tuesday 1 July (AM)

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Total Marks: 100 marks

What Will My Assessment Test My Knowledge On?

🧠 AQA GCSE Psychology – Paper 1: Cognition and Behaviour

  1. Memory
    • The process of memory (encoding, storage, retrieval)
    • Structures of memory (multi-store model, sensory, STM, LTM)
    • Memory as an active process (Bartlett’s theory of reconstructive memory)
    • Factors affecting the accuracy of memory (e.g., interference, context)
  2. Perception
    • Sensation and perception
    • Visual cues and constancies (depth, size, shape)
    • Gibson’s direct theory of perception
    • Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception
    • Factors affecting perception (culture, emotion, motivation)
  3. Development
    • Early brain development
    • Piaget’s theory (schemas, stages, conservation, egocentrism)
    • Piaget’s theory and the role of education
    • Dweck’s mindset theory
    • Learning styles (including Willingham’s learning theory)
  4. Research Methods
    • Experimental design and variables
    • Sampling methods
    • Ethical considerations
    • Types of data (quantitative and qualitative)
    • Descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, range, tables, graphs)
    • Drawing conclusions and evaluating research

What Should I Do To Revise And Prepare For This Assessment?

🧠 1. Use Active Revision Techniques

  • Flashcards for key terms and definitions
  • Dual coding – create visuals to go with your notes
  • Quizzes – test yourself or use online tools
  • Explain to someone else – teaching a topic helps you understand it better

📝 2. Practise Exam Questions

  • Use past paper questions from AQA
  • Practise different styles:
    • AO1 – describing theories and studies
    • AO2 – applying knowledge to scenarios
    • AO3 – evaluating and analysing theories or studies
  • Focus on 6-mark and 9-mark questions — plan, write, and self-mark or peer mark them

📊 3. Revise Research Methods Regularly

  • Research Methods appears throughout the paper, not just in its own section
  • Practise identifying variables, writing hypotheses, analysing graphs/tables, and calculating mean/mode/range

📆 4. Make a Plan

  • Break your revision into chunks across weeks – don’t try to cram it all in one go!
  • Use a revision timetable to balance topics
  • Prioritise any areas you’re less confident with

Useful Revision Resources & Links

    • BTA lessons
      👉 All lessons linked on G4S
    • Online textbook
      👉 Use your login to access the textbook and associated quizzes and exams
    • AQA GCSE Psychology website
      👉 Use this to check exactly what you need to know — it’s your revision roadmap.

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