My Revision Notes: AQA A Level Psychology
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Component 1
Social influence
Types of conformity
Explanations for conformity
Conformity to social roles
Situational explanations for obedience
Dispositional explanations for obedience
Resistance to social influence
Minority influence
Social influence and social change
Memory
Short- and long-term memory
The multi-store model of memory
Types of long-term memory
The working memory model
Explanations for forgetting
Eyewitness testimony
Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Attachment
Caregiver–infant interactions
Stages of attachment
Animal studies of attachment
Explanations of attachment
The Strange Situation: Ainsworth and Bell (1970)
Types of attachment
Cultural variations in the development of attachment
Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation
Romanian orphan studies
The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships
Psychopathology
Definitions of abnormality
The characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD
The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias
The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression
The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD
Component 2
Approaches in psychology
Origins of psychology
Learning approaches
The cognitive approach
The biological approach
The psychodynamic approach
Humanistic psychology
Comparison of approaches
Biopsychology
The divisions of the nervous system
The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons
The function of the endocrine system
The fight-or-flight response
Localisation of function in the brain
Brain plasticity
Ways of studying the brain
Biological rhythms
Research methods
Experimental methods
Observational techniques
Self-report techniques
Correlation
Case studies
Content analysis
Scientific processes
Ethical research
Aims and hypotheses
Sampling techniques
Pilot studies
Experimental design
Observational design
Questionnaire construction
Research variables
Controls
Demand characteristics and investigator effects
Reliability and validity
Features of science
Peer review
Reporting psychological investigations
Data handling and analysis
Primary and secondary data
Quantitative and qualitative data
Levels of measurement
Descriptive statistics
Standard deviation
Analysis of correlation
Presentation of quantitative data
Normal and skewed distribution
Content analysis and coding
Inferential testing
Introduction and the sign test
Which inferential test to use
Probability (p) and statistical significance
Use of statistical tables and Type I and Type II errors
Component 3
Issues and debates in psychology
Gender and culture – universality and bias
Free will and determinism
The nature–nurture debate
Holism and reductionism
Ideographic and nomothetic approaches
Ethical implications of research
Relationships
Evolutionary explanations
Factors affecting attraction
Social exchange theory
Equity theory
Rusbult’s investment model
Duck’s model of relationship breakdown
Virtual relationships in social media
Parasocial relationships
Gender
Sex and gender
The role of chromosomes and hormones in gender development
Cognitive explanations of gender development
Psychodynamic explanations for gender development
Social learning theory as applied to gender development
Atypical gender development: gender identity disorder
Cognition and development
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development
Baillargeon’s explanation of early infant abilities
The development of social cognition
Schizophrenia
Classification of schizophrenia
Biological explanations for schizophrenia
Psychological explanations for schizophrenia
Drug therapy
Psychological therapies for schizophrenia
The interactionist approach to schizophrenia
Eating behaviour
Explanations for food preferences
Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour
Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa
Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa
Biological explanations for obesity
Psychological explanations for obesity
Stress
The physiology of stress
The role of stress in illness
Sources of stress
Measuring stress
Individual differences in stress
Managing and coping with stress
Gender differences and stress
Aggression
Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
Genetic factors in aggression
Ethological explanations of aggression
Evolutionary explanations of human aggression
The frustration–aggression hypothesis
Social learning theory and deindividuation
Institutional aggression in the context of prisons
Media influences on aggression
Forensic psychology
Measuring crime
Offender profiling
Biological explanations of offending behaviour
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
Dealing with offending behaviour
Addiction
Describing addiction
Risk factors in the development of addiction
Explanations for nicotine addiction
Explanations for gambling addiction
Reducing addiction
The application of theories of behaviour change to addictive behaviour
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