Atavistic form Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

This file contains the key information, studies and evaluation points on the atavistic form. These studies have been sourced via several sources including the AQA second-year psychology textbook (found on the illuminate publishing website). This saves a lot of time you may spend searching for information and studies to fulfil AO1, AO2 and AO3 criteria. For example, a good evaluation point for an ethical issue related to the atavistic form would be that Lombroso's theory of dark-skin being a c...

I am an A-Level student and these are my notes on the Atavistic form topic of the Psychology AQA A-Level. I have included bullet-pointed evaluation points that are easy to read and expand upon for long answers

A easy-to-navigate document, these notes were used and created during the completion of my A-Level in Psychology. With all of the base knowledge required from the book, reworded and bullet-pointed, as well as a variety of independent research and extra links, this document is perfect for anyone looking to achieve an A*, or simply looking to add that extra knowledge into their essay answers. Pictures are included as a means for easy recognition and memorisation, and full A01 and A03 are included,...

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PREVIEW OF THE POSTERS CHANGES THE FORMAT OF THE BOXES, HOWEVER, ONCE DOWNLOADED THIS ISSUE WILL BE SOLVED. THANK YOU! An in-depth poster displaying the biological explanations for criminal behaviour. Includes a description and evaluation of the atavistic form as well as genetic and neural explanations. Atavistic Form: atavistic characteristics, Lombrosso's research, and evaluation Genetic and neural explanations: twin studies, candidate genes, diathesis-stress m...

This file contains the key information, studies and evaluation points on the psychological explnations. These studies have been sourced via several sources including the AQA second-year psychology textbook (found on the illuminate publishing website). This saves a lot of time you may spend searching for information and studies to fulfil AO1, AO2 and AO3 criteria. For example, a good evaluation point for an ethical issue related to the atavistic form would be that Lombroso's theory of dark-skin...

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Lesson and revision notes on the forensic psychology module in AQA A2 Psychology. It contains the following topics: Defining and measuring crime; offender profiling - including the top-down approach and the bottom-up (and geographical profiling); explanations of offending - A historical approach to offending behaviour, Genetic and neural explanations, Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality, Cognitive explanations, Differential association theory and Psychodynamic explanations; and dealin...

These notes include a summary, key cases, and evaluations of the follow; Offending behaviour: - Problems in defining crime, measuring crimes including official statistics and alternatives. - Offender profiling, including typology and geographical approaches. - Theories of offending: o Early biological approaches: atavistic form and somatotype theories. o Biological explanations including genetic transmission. o Psychodynamic o Social learning theory explanations o Eysenck’s theory of the crim...