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  Subject Overview

 

  1 AS Level

Study room item 1 Introduction to AS Psychology

  2 A2 Level

Study room item 1 Introduction to A2 Psychology
 
 

  Unit 1 Cognitive Psychology

 

  1 Human Memory

Study room item 1 Human Memory
Study room item 2 Short term and Long term memory
Study room item 3 Models of Memory
Study room item 4 Eye-Witness Testimony
Study room item 5 Strategies for memory improvement

  2 Forgetting

Study room item 1 Forgetting
Study room item 2 Forgetting in Short Term Memory (STM)
Study room item 3 Forgetting in Long Term Memory (LTM)

  3 Reference

Study room item Attention
Study room item Pattern Recognition
Study room item Perception
Study room item Visual system
 
 

  Unit 2 Developmental Psychology

 

  1 Attachment

Study room item 1 What is attachment
Study room item 2 Classical Conditioning
Study room item 3 Operant Conditioning
Study room item 4 Harlow 1959, Harlow & Zimmerman 1959
Study room item 5 Bowlby’s theory 1969, 1973
Study room item 6 Phases in the development of attachments
Study room item 7 Quality of attachment - (Ainsworth & Bell 1970)
Study room item 8 Research into Deprivation and privation
Study room item 9 Privation
Study room item 10 Deprivation
Study room item 11 Separation
Study room item 12 Differences between deprivation and privation
Study room item 13 Day Care

  2 Reference

Study room item Adolescence
Study room item Development of Intelligence
Study room item Development of Moral Understanding
Study room item Gender Development
Study room item Personality Development
 
 

  Unit 3 Social Psychology

 

  1 Social Influence

Study room item 1 Social Influence
Study room item 2 Conformity
Study room item 3 Obedience
Study room item 4 Implications of social influence research for social change
Study room item 5 Social Influence - Summary

  2 Reference

Study room item Aggression
Study room item Altruism and Bystander behaviour
Study room item Conformity
Study room item Cultural and sub-cultural differences in relationships
Study room item Interpersonal Relationships
Study room item Maintenance and Dissolution of relationships
Study room item Obedience
Study room item Prejudice
Study room item Relationships
Study room item Social Cognition
Study room item Social Psychology
 
 

  Unit 4 Individual Differences

 

  1 Abnormality (Psychopathology)

Study room item 1 How is abnormality determined
Study room item 2 Biological Approach to explaining the causes of abnormality
Study room item 3 Psychodynamic Approach to explaining the causes of abnormality
Study room item 4 Behavioural Approach to explaining the causes of abnormality
Study room item 5 Coginitive Approach to explaining the causes of abnormality
Study room item 6 Biological Treatments and Therapies for abnormality
Study room item 7 Psychodynamic Treatments and Therapies for abnormality
Study room item 8 Behavioural Treatments and Therapies for abnormality
Study room item 9 Cognitive Treatments and Therapies for abnormality

  2 Depression

Study room item 1 Depression

  3 Schizophrenia

Study room item 1 Schizophrenia

  4 Reference

Study room item Abnormality
Study room item Alternative therapies
Study room item Anxiety Disorders
Study room item Behavioural therapies
Study room item Biological therapies
Study room item Depression
Study room item Eating Disorders
Study room item Schizophrenia
 
 

  Unit 5 Physiological Psychology

 

  1 Stress

Study room item 1 Stress as a bodily response
Study room item 2 Physiological Co-ordination
Study room item 3 Organisation of the nervous system
Study room item 4 Acute and chronic response to stress
Study room item 5 Stress Related Illness
Study room item 6 Stress in everyday life
Study room item 7 Daily Hassles and Uplifts
Study room item 8 Workplace Stress
Study room item 9 Personality and stress
Study room item 10 Emotion-focused coping and Problem-focused coping
Study room item 11 Stress Management

  2 Sleep

Study room item 1 Sleep and the Ecological Perspective
Study room item 2 Restoration Perspective
Study room item 3 Restoration Studies

  3 Reference

Study room item Biological rythms
Study room item Dreaming
Study room item Sleep
Study room item Stress
 
 

  Unit 6 Perspectives

 

  1 Anomalistic Psychology

Study room item 1 Anomalistic Psychology
Study room item 2 Issues of theory and methodology
Study room item 3 Fraud

  2 Reference

Study room item Gender and Cultural bias
Study room item Nature versus Nurture
 
 

  Unit 7 Comparative Psychology

 

  1 Reference

Study room item Comparative Psychology
Study room item Evolution
 
 

  Unit 8 Research Methods

 

  1 Research Methods

Study room item 1 Reliability and Validity
Study room item 2 Ethical Issues
Study room item 3 Hypothesis and Variables
Study room item 4 Experimental Design
Study room item 5 Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Study room item 6 Quantitative Data Analysis
Study room item 7 Descriptive Statistics
Study room item 8 Graphs and Charts
Study room item 9 Laboratory and Field Experiments
Study room item 10 Quasi or Natural Experiments
Study room item 11 Interviews and Surveys
Study room item 12 Qualitative Methods and Analysis

  2 Reference

Study room item Research Methods
 
 

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