International GCSE Psychology eBook: GCSE: Oxford Resources for OxfordAQA
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Language
English
ISBN
9781382052672
Contents
Introduction
Paper 1: Cognition and behaviour
Chapter 1: Memory
1.1 What are the processes of memory?
1.2 What are the models of memory?
Key study: Murdock’s serial position curve study (1962)
Chapter 1 Revision and exam practice
Chapter 5: Communication
5.1 What is the relationship between language and thought?
5.2 How are human and animal communication different?
Key study: von Frisch’s bee study (1950)
5.4 How is non-verbal behaviour explained?
Key study: Yuki’s emoticons study (2007)
1.3 What is the working memory model of memory?
Key study: Baddeley and Hitch’s dual processing tasks study (1976)
1.4 Why is memory an active process?
Key study: Bartlett’s ‘War of the Ghosts’ study (1932)
1.5 What factors affect the accuracy of memory?
Chapter 2: Perception
2.1 What are sensation and perception?
2.2 Can you believe what you see?
2.3 What is the constructivist theory of perception?
Key study: Nisbett and Miyamoto’s culture and perception study (2005)
Key study: Gilchrist and Nesberg’s need and perceptual change study (1952)
Key study: Kunst-Wilson and Zajonc’s recognition and perception study (1980)
Key study: Bruner and Minturn’s perceptual set study (1955)
Chapter 2 Revision and exam practice
Chapter 3: Biopsychology
3.1 What is the nervous system?
3.2 What are neurons?
3.3 What is the brain like?
Key study: Penfield’s interpretive cortex study (1959)
3.4 What is cognitive neuroscience?
Key study: Tulving’s ‘gold’ memory study (1989)
Chapter 3 Revision and exam practice
Chapter 4: Research methods
4.1 What is the experimental method?
4.2 What are sampling methods?
4.3 What are non-experimental methods?
4.4 What are case studies?
4.5 What are observation studies?
4.6 What is correlation?
4.7 What are ethics in psychology?
4.8 What is data handling?
Chapter 4 Revision and exam practice
Paper 2: Social context and behaviour
5.3 What is non-verbal communication?
Chapter 5 Revision and exam practice
Chapter 6: Social influence
6.1 What is conformity?
Key study: Asch’s conformity study (1956)
Chapter 6 Revision and exam practice
6.2 What is obedience?
Key study: Milgram’s obedience study (1963)
6.3 What is bystander behaviour?
Key study: Latane and Darley’s smoke study (1968)
Key study: Piliavin’s subway study (1972)
Key study: Levine’s football supporter study (2002)
6.4 What are crowd and collective behaviours?
Chapter 7: Mental health
7.1 What is mental health?
7.2 What are the effects of mental health problems?
7.3 What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
7.4 What causes obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Key study: Kearns’ study of the effectiveness of group-based CBT for OCD (2010)
7.6 What causes post traumatic stress disorder?
Key study: Eftekhari’s study of prolonged exposure for the treatment of chronic PTSD (2006)
Chapter 7 Revision and exam practice
7.5 What is post traumatic stress disorder?
Exam skills
Glossary
Index
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