Oxford AQA Psychology A Level Year 2
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Language
English
ISBN
9780198363811
Front Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Research methods
Research methods and experiment designs
Scientific processes
Data handling and analysis
Inferential testing
Part 3:Issues and options in psychology
Chapter 1: Issues and debates in psychology
Gender and culturein psychology
Free will and determinism
The nature–nurture debate
Reductionism and holism
Idiographic and nomothetic approaches
Ethics
Chapter 2: Relationships
Evolutionary explanations for partner preferences
Attraction and romantic relationships
Virtual relationships
Theories of romantic relationships
Parasocial relationships
Chapter 3: Gender
Sex and gender
The role of chromosomes
Social learning theory applied to gender development
Cognitive explanations of gender development
Psychodynamic explanations of gender development
Chapter 4: Cognition and development
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development
Baillargeon’s work on early infant abilities
The development of social cognition
Chapter 5: Schizophrenia
What is schizophrenia?
Biological explanations of schizophrenia
Psychological explanations of schizophrenia
Drug therapy
Psychological therapies
Interactionist approaches to schizophrenia
Chapter 6: Eating behaviour
Biological control of eating
Biological explanations of anorexia nervosa
Psychological explanations of eating disorders
Biological explanations ofobesity
Psychological explanations of obesity
Chapter 7: Stress
What is stress?
The physiology of stress
The role of stress in illness
Measuring stress
Sources of stress
Individual differences in stress
Managing and coping withstress
Chapter 8: Aggression
Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
The ethological explanation of aggression
Social psychological explanations of human aggression
Institutional aggression
Media influences on aggression
Chapter 9: Forensic psychology
Problems in defining crime
Offender profiling
Biological explanations of offending behaviour
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
Dealing with offending behaviour
Chapter 10: Addiction
Descriptions of addiction
Risk factors in addiction
Nicotine addiction
Gambling addiction
Methods for reducing addiction
Applying behaviour change models to addictive behaviour
Examination skills
References
Index
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