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AQA A Level Psychology past papers

18 AQA A Level Psychology papers from 2020 to 2025, 18 with a mark scheme and 17 with an examiners' report. Every link opens the document on AQA's own website; we list them in one place and show which topics each series tested.

Which topics come up most

The topics that have carried the most marks across the AQA A Level Psychology papers we have tagged question by question. Topics with a revision guide link to it.

Topic	Questions	Marks	Papers
Biological Explanations of Gender Development	4	792	4 of 12
Cognitive, Psychodynamic and Social Explanations of Gender Development	2	384	2 of 12
Explaining Parasocial Relationships: Absorption-Addiction and Attachment	2	216	2 of 12
Rusbult's Investment Model of Commitment in Relationships	1	200	1 of 12
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory	1	192	1 of 12
Attachment types: Ainsworth's Strange Situation and cultural variations in attachment	3	140	3 of 12
Ways of Studying the Brain: Scanning Techniques and EEG	3	81	3 of 12
Neurons and Synaptic Transmission	3	71	3 of 12
Plasticity and Functional Recovery of the Brain	1	64	1 of 12
Improving Eyewitness Testimony: The Cognitive Interview	1	62	1 of 12
Observational Techniques: Design, Sampling and Inter-Observer Reliability	4	57	2 of 12
Research methods: variables, hypotheses, choosing a statistical test and the sign test	3	57	3 of 12
Types of Experiment: Laboratory, Field, Natural and Quasi-Experiments	3	54	3 of 12
Learning Theory as an Explanation of Attachment	2	52	2 of 12
The Influence of Early Attachment on Later Relationships	1	48	1 of 12

Counted from our own question-by-question tagging of 12 papers. A question that tests two topics counts towards both, so the marks column ranks topics rather than adding up to a paper total. Showing the top 15 of 57 topics.

All AQA A Level Psychology papers by year

June 2025

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

June 2024

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

June 2023

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

June 2022

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

November 2021

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

November 2020

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Psychology in Context	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology	Question paper Mark scheme

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