A level Psychology

This document covers the Approaches topic in A level psychology: origins of psychology, behaviourist approach, social learning theory, cognitive approach, biological approach, psychodynamic approach, humanist approach, and there's a comparison table of the different approaches. :)

This document covers the Attachment topic in A level psychology: caregiver-infant interactions, Schaffer and Emerson, role of the father, animal studies (Harlow and Lorenz), learning theory, Bowlby, Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation, Ainsworth's strange situation, and cultural variations...

This document covers the Biopsychology topic in A level psychology: biopsych intro, localisation of function, lateralisation of function, plasticity, functional recovery, circadian rhythms, ultradian and infradian rhythms, ways of studying the brain, synaptic transmission, fight/flight, and the endo...

This document covers the Forensics topic in A level psychology: top-down profiling, bottom-up profiling, historical biological explanation, biological explanation, Eysenck personality explanation, cognitive explanation, differential association, psychodynamic explanation, custodial sentencing, token...

This document covers the Gender topic in A level psychology: sex, gender and BSRI; biological explanation; atypical sex chromosomes; Kohlberg cognitive explanation; gender schema cognitive explanation; psychodynamic explanation; social learning theory; culture and media; and atypical gender developm...

This covers the Issues and debates topic in A level psychology: gender bias, cultural bias, free will vs determinism, nature vs nurture, holism vs reductionism, idiographic vs nomothetic, and ethical implications. :)

This document covers the Memory topic in A level Psychology: multi-store model, working memory model, types of long term memory, interference, retrieval failure, memory in everyday life, misleading information on eyewitness testimony, and the cognitive interview. :)

This document covers the Psychopathology topic in A level Psychology: definitions of abnormality, characteristics of mental disorders, behavioural approach to phobias, cognitive approach to depression, and biological approach to OCD. :)

This document is an overview of the Research Methods topic in A level Psychology, with outlines and evaluation points: BPS, ethical issues, consent and debrief, cost/benefit analysis, aim, experimental method, hypothesis, IV and DV, sampling method, extraneous variables, standardisation, experimenta...

This document covers the Schizophrenia topic in A level Psychology: diagnosis and classification, biological explanations, biological treatment, family dysfunction, cognitive explanation, psychological treatments, management of schizophrenia, and the interactionist approach. :)