Exemplar Essays for AQA A Level Psychology - Issues and Debates

In recent weeks we've had many requests for ‘sample essays’, so the tutor2u Psychology team has been working hard to get our new ‘Core Topic Essays’ resource ready for use. We have started with a topic which we know you all love – Issues & Debates – and have produced seven exemplar essays.

Each essay comes in two versions:

(1) With examiner style commentary

(2) Without examiner commentary, so that you can use these in your lessons.

You can download a sample of these essays here

These essays have been checked by examiners and although we are unable to say exactly what mark they would achieve (as there have been no real linear A Level Psychology exams yet), we are confident with the mark band and and that content is correct.

Also we have provided a mixture of mark band 4 and 3 essays so that students can see what they need to do to improve and what the difference is between these two levels.

The seven Issues & Debates Questions are:
1. Discuss gender bias in psychology. (16 marks)
2. Discuss cultural bias in psychology. (16 marks)
3. Discuss free will and determinism in psychology. (16 marks)
4. Describe and evaluate the nature–nurture debate in psychology. (16 marks)
5. Discuss holism and reductionism in psychology. (16 marks)
6. Discuss idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation. (16 marks)
7. Discuss the ethical implications of research studies and theory, including reference to social sensitivity. (16 marks)

This resource will be published on 20 October 2016 and can be ordered here from our online store

A School Network Licence - which enables the digital and print distribution of the resource to all your students - costs just £35 (+VAT).

A discount on this price is available to teaching colleagues who are members of the AQA A Level Psychology Teacher Group on Facebook - a posting with the coupon code has been posted to the FB Group.