This page lists what we actually have for AQA GCSE Psychology 8182. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The strand most revision leaves out
Psychology is an attractive GCSE option partly because students think it is about people, and a proportion of them are surprised to find it is also about sampling frames, standard deviations and the difference between a repeated measures and an independent groups design.
AQA examines research methods on both papers, embedded in the topics rather than quarantined in a unit, and requires a share of the marks to be mathematical. Revision resources tend to skip it, because it is harder to write than a set of study summaries and less fun to read.
Three of these seventeen activities are about method rather than content.
Hypotheses, variables and sampling covers the difference between an aim and a hypothesis, how to operationalise a variable, and why a sample chosen from your own class is not random. Experimental designs and methods covers the designs, their weaknesses and the situations each suits. Data handling and descriptive statistics, at twenty-four minutes, covers mean, median, mode and range, tables and graphs.
That last one is the only activity on this site outside maths and science where a student plots a graph rather than reading about one, and it is the reason to look at this set even if you have other resources for the content.
The content, topic by topic
Paper 1 is cognition and behaviour: memory, perception, development and research methods. Paper 2 is social context and behaviour: social influence, language thought and communication, brain and neuropsychology, and psychological problems.
All eight are covered. The strongest run is the neuropsychology pair: the nervous system and neurons, and brain structure, localisation of function and scanning techniques, which includes a hotspot activity on the brain itself rather than a list of lobes to memorise.
Social influence is well served by conformity and obedience, which takes Milgram's agency theory as the spine, and by prosocial and crowd behaviour beside it.
Memory, perception and development are covered more briefly, one or two activities each, and the multi-store model activity at fifteen minutes is the shortest thing here.
Studies live inside topics, not in a list
A decision worth naming, because it affects how you would use these.
The named studies AQA requires are taught inside the topic they belong to rather than gathered into a studies activity. Milgram appears inside conformity and obedience. Piaget has a stage theory activity. Gunderson and the mindset work sits with learning theory.
That follows how the specification examines them: questions ask what a study shows or how it was criticised, not for a roll call. If your department revises by study rather than by topic, these will feel organised the wrong way round, and a sprint built from three or four of them is the way to reorder them for a class.
The other board's specification is covered at Edexcel GCSE Psychology, which is built around named studies far more explicitly.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
It does not rehearse the longest written answers. The writing tasks here run thirty to a hundred and fifty words, and AQA's longest questions want more than that.
It does not teach inferential statistics, which is not on this specification, so that is a limit of the course rather than of the page.
It is not a scheme of work. For a shape to drop these into, see how to structure a GCSE revision programme.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.