AQA • Psychology

These revision notes cover Attachment for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key theories, research studies and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **Caregiver-infant interactions** – reciprocity, interactional synchrony and the development of early relationships. - **Stages of attachment** – Schaffer and Emerson's stages of attachment and the development of infant-caregiver bonds. - **Animal studies of atta...

These revision notes cover Biopsychology for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key biological processes, brain structures, research studies and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **The nervous system** – the central nervous system (CNS), peripheral nervous system (PNS), somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system. - **The endocrine system** – the role of hormones and glands in behaviour and bodily proc...

These revision notes cover Cognition and Development for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key theories, research studies and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **Piaget's theory of cognitive development** – stages of intellectual development, schemas, assimilation, accommodation and conservation. - **Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development** – the zone of proximal development (ZPD), scaffolding and t...

These revision notes cover Forensic Psychology for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key theories, research studies and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **Offender profiling** – the top-down approach, including organised and disorganised offenders, and the bottom-up approach, including investigative psychology and geographical profiling. - **Biological explanations of offending** – genetic and neural explana...

These revision notes cover the Psychopathology topic for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key definitions, psychological approaches, research evidence and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **Definitions of abnormality** – statistical infrequency, deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately and deviation from ideal mental health. - **The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias** ...

These revision notes cover Issues and Debates for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear explanations of key debates, psychological perspectives and evaluation points to help you develop critical thinking skills and prepare for exam questions. **Topics covered include:** - **Gender and culture in psychology** – cultural bias, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and gender bias. - **Free will and determinism** – hard determinism, soft determinism and biological, environmental and psych...

These revision notes cover Research Methods for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key concepts, research designs, statistical tests and practical research skills required for the A-Level specification. **Topics covered include:** - **Experimental methods** – laboratory, field, natural and quasi-experiments, including independent and dependent variables. - **Research designs** – independent groups, repeated measures and matched pairs. - **Observationa...

These revision notes cover the Memory topic for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of key theories, research studies and evaluation points to support exam preparation. **Topics covered include:** - **The multi-store model of memory** – sensory register, short-term memory (STM), long-term memory (LTM), coding, capacity and duration. - **The working memory model** – the central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad and episodic buffer. - **T...

These revision notes cover the Social Influence topic for AQA A-Level Psychology, with clear, structured explanations of key theories, research studies and evaluation points to help you prepare for your exams. **Topics covered include:** - **Types of conformity** – compliance, identification and internalisation. - **Explanations of conformity** – informational social influence (ISI) and normative social influence (NSI). - **Conformity research** – Asch’s research into conformity,...

These revision notes cover the Schizophrenia topic for AQA A-Level Psychology, providing clear, structured explanations of the key concepts, research studies and evaluation points needed for exam preparation. The notes cover: - Classification and diagnosis – the symptoms of schizophrenia, including positive and negative symptoms, and issues surrounding diagnosis. - Biological explanations – the genetic explanation and the dopamine hypothesis. - Psychological explanations – family dys...

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