GCSE Psychology Subject Knowledge
Understanding the human mind goes beyond textbooks. Developing strong subject knowledge helps teachers feel confident and allows students to engage more deeply with ideas, making lessons richer, more relevant, and more thought-provoking.
This page is designed as a hub for articles, podcasts, documentaries, and other resources that broaden your understanding of key psychological theories, research, and real-world applications. Whether you’re a teacher seeking to expand your expertise or a student curious to explore topics further, these materials provide insight, context, and inspiration. These links and reources are suitable for Edexcel GCSE Psychology with some links relevant to AQA GCSE Psychology.
By exploring these resources, you can:
- Stay up to date with current psychological research and debates
- Examine behaviour from multiple perspectives
- Bring real-world examples and case studies into lessons or revision
- Build confidence in discussing complex psychological concepts
Each resource is carefully chosen to support learning, encourage curiosity, and make Psychology both accessible and engaging.
Articles
- General Interest: Gen Z office survival guide
- Development: Understanding Child Development
- Memory: How Reliable Is Our Memory for Conversations?
- Psychological Problems (Depression): What is depression?
- Psychological Problems (Addiction): How addiction took hold of the UK
- Neuropsychology: Parts of the brain: Anatomy, functions & conditions
- Social Influence: The Science behind Social Influence
- Criminal Psychology: Criminal justice needs a better understanding of childhood trauma
- Criminal Psychology: Women can be psychopaths too
- Sleep & Dreaming: Optimise the benefits of dreams and sleep
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Books
Documentaries
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- Development: Coming soon!
- Memory: Coming soon!
- Psychological Problems (Depression): Coming soon!
- Psychological Problems (Addiction): Coming soon!
- Neuropsychology: Coming soon!
- Social Influence: Coming soon!
- Criminal Psychology: Coming soon!
- Sleep & Dreaming: Coming soon!
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Podcasts
- General Interest: Coming soon!
- Development: Coming soon!
- Memory: Coming soon!
- Psychological Problems (Depression): Coming soon!
- Psychological Problems (Addiction): Coming soon!
- Neuropsychology: Coming soon!
- Social Influence: Coming soon!
- Criminal Psychology: Coming soon!
- Sleep & Dreaming: Coming soon!
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Ted Talks
- General Interest: Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson
- General Interest: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
- Development: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
- Memory: How reliable is your memory?
- Psychological Problems (Depression): The mindful way through depression
- Psychological Problems (Addiction): Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
- Neuropsychology: How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains
- Social Influence: Conformity: are we afraid to stand out?
- Criminal Psychology: Are Serial Killers Born or Made?
- Sleep & Dreaming: Sleep Is Your Superpower
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YouTube
- General Interest: Coming soon!
- Development: Early Brain Development
- Memory: Reductionism vs Holism
- Psychological Problems (Depression): Coming soon!
- Psychological Problems (Addiction): Coming soon!
- Neuropsychology: Coming soon!
- Social Influence: Coming soon!
- Criminal Psychology: Coming soon!
- Sleep & Dreaming: Coming soon!
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