AQA A-level Psychology (Year 1 and Year 2)
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English
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9781510482753
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Introduction
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1 Social psychology: social influences
1.1 Types of conformity
1.2 Explanations for conformity
1.3 Variables affecting conformity
1.4 Conformity to social roles
1.5 Obedience and the work of Milgram
1.6 Explanations for obedience
1.7 Situational variables affecting obedience
1.8 Individual variables affecting obedience
1.9 Explanations of resistance to social influence
1.10 Minority influence
1.11 The role of social influence processes in social change
2 Cognitive psychology: memory
2.1 The multi-store model (MSM)
2.2 The working memory model (WMM)
2.3 Types of long-term memory
2.4 Explanations for forgetting
2.5 Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony (EWT)
2.6 Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
3 Developmental psychology: attachment
3.1 Caregiver–infant interactions in humans
3.2 Animal studies of attachment
3.3 Explanations of attachment
3.4 Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’
3.5 Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis (MDH) (1951)
3.6 The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships
4 Individual differences: psychopathology
4.1 Definitions of abnormality
4.2 Characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD
4.3 The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias
4.4 The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression
4.5 The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD
5 Approaches in psychology
5.1 Origins of psychology: Wundt, introspection and the emergence of psychology as a science
5.2 The biological approach
5.3 Learning approaches
5.4 The cognitive approach
5.5 The psychodynamic approach
5.6 Humanistic psychology
5.7 Comparison of approaches
6 Biopsychology
6.1 The influence of biological structures on behaviour: the divisions of the nervous system
6.2 The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons
6.3 The influence of neurochemistry on behaviour: the function of the endocrine system
6.4 The fight-or-flight response, including the role of adrenaline
6.5 Localisation of function in the brain
6.6 Ways of studying the brain
6.7 Biological rhythms
7 Research methods
7.1 Research methods
7.2 Scientific processes
7.3 Data handling and analysis
7.4 Inferential testing
8 Issues and debates in psychology
8.1 Gender and culture in psychology
8.2 Free will and determinism
8.3 Nature–nurture debate
8.4 Holism and reductionism
8.5 Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation
8.6 Ethical implications of research studies and theory
9 Relationships
9.1 The evolutionary explanation for partner preferences
9.2 Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships
9.3 Theories of romantic relationships
9.4 Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown
9.5 Virtual relationships in social media
9.6 Parasocial relationships
10 Gender
10.1 Sex and gender
10.2 The role of chromosomes and hormones
10.3 Cognitive explanations for gender development
10.4 Psychodynamic explanation for gender development
10.5 Social learning theory as applied to gender development
10.6 Atypical gender development
11 Schizophrenia
11.1 Classification of schizophrenia
11.2 Biological explanations for schizophrenia
11.3 Psychological explanations for schizophrenia
11.4 Drug therapies
11.5 Cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy and token economies
11.6 The importance of the interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia
12 Stress
12.1 The physiology of stress
12.2 The role of stress in illness
12.3 Sources of stress
12.4 Physiological measures of stress
12.5 Individual differences in stress
12.6 Managing and coping with stress
13 Aggression
13.1 Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
13.2 The ethological explanation for aggression
13.3 Evolutionary explanations for human aggression
13.4 Social psychological explanations for human aggression
13.5 Institutional aggression in the context of prisons
13.6 Media influences on aggression
14 Forensic psychology
14.1 Offender profiling
14.2 Biological explanations for offending behaviour
14.3 Psychological explanations for offending behaviour
14.4 Dealing with offending behaviour
15 Cognition and development
15.1 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
15.2 Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development
15.3 Baillargeon’s explanation for early infant abilities
15.4 The development of social cognition
16 Eating behaviour
16.1 Explanations for food preferences
16.2 Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating
16.3 Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa
16.4 Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa
16.5 Biological explanations for obesity
16.6 Psychological explanations for obesity
17 Addiction
17.1 Describing addiction
17.2 Risk factors in the development of addiction
17.3 Explanations for nicotine addiction
17.4 Explanations for gambling addiction
17.5 Reducing addiction
17.6 The application of theories of behaviour change to addictive behaviour
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