Summary Paper 1 Revision Notes Knowledge Organiser Summaries Evaluations

Psychology notes

,Social Influence
Conformity
● Asch’s research
● Types and explanations
● Conformity to social roles

Obedience
● Milgram’s research
● Situational variables
● Situational explanations
● Dispositional explanations

● Resistance to social influence
● Minority influence
● Social influence and social change

,Memory
● Coding, capacity and duration of memory
● The multi store model of memory
● Types of long term memory
● The working memory model
● Interference model of forgetting
● Retrieval failure for forgetting
● Misleading information - eyewitness testimony
● Anxiety - eyewitness testimony
● Cognitive interview improving accuracy of eyewitness testimony

,Attachment
● caregiver -infant interaction
● Schaffer’s stages of attachments
● The role of the father
● Animal studies of attachment
● Learning theory of attachment
● Bowlby’s monotropic theory
● Ainsworth’s strange situation
● Cultural variations
● Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation
● Romanian orphan studies
● Influence of early attachment on later relationships

,psychopathology

● Definitions of abnormality 1
● Definitions of abnormality 2
● Phobias
● The behavioural approach to explaining phobias
● The behavioural approach to treating phobias
● depression
● The cognitive approach to explaining depression
● The cognitive approach to treating depression
● OCD
● The biological approach to explaining OCD
● The biological approach to treating ocd

, Research Methods
● Experimental Method
● Research issues
● Experimental designs
● Types of experiment
● Sampling
● Ethical issues and ways to deal
● Observational techniques
● Observational designs
● Self-report techniques
● Self report designs
● Correlations
● Types of data
● Peer review and the economy
● The sign test