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)
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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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
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- 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.
- BTA lessons