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Psychology 7182
9 sections available · 52 chapters available
Free Psychology 7182 study notes for AQA A Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Paper 1: Social influence and Memory
Conformity: types, explanations and variables
Obedience: situational and dispositional explanations
Resistance to social influence and minority influence
Multi-store model and working memory model
Explanations for forgetting
Eyewitness testimony and the cognitive interview
Paper 1: Attachment
Animal studies and explanations of attachment
Strange Situation and types of attachment
Cultural variations in attachment
Maternal deprivation and institutionalisation
Influence of early attachment on later relationships
Paper 1: Clinical Psychology and Mental Health
Definitions in the field of mental health
Characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD
Behavioural approach to phobias
Cognitive approach to depression
Biological approach to OCD
Paper 2: Approaches and Biopsychology
Learning approaches: behaviourist and social learning theory
Cognitive and biological approaches
Psychodynamic and humanistic approaches; comparison
Nervous system, neurons and synaptic transmission
Endocrine system and the fight or flight response
Ways of studying the brain
Localisation, lateralisation, plasticity and recovery
Paper 2: Research methods
Experimental, observational and self-report methods
Aims, hypotheses, sampling and research design
Control, ethics, reliability and validity
Features of science, peer review and reporting investigations
Data handling: descriptive statistics and data display
Inferential testing: sign test, significance and choice of test
Paper 3: Issues and debates in Psychology
Gender bias and cultural bias
Free will and determinism
The nature-nurture debate and the interactionist approach
Holism and reductionism
Idiographic and nomothetic approaches; social sensitivity
Paper 3 Option 1: Relationships / Gender / Cognition and development
Relationships: attraction and theories of romantic relationships
Relationships: online and parasocial relationships
Gender: biological sex, gender identities and measurement
Gender: explanations of gender development and gender incongruence
Cognition and development: Piaget, Vygotsky and Baillargeon
Cognition and development: development of social cognition
Paper 3 Option 2: Schizophrenia / Eating behaviour / Stress
Schizophrenia: symptoms, diagnosis and explanations
Schizophrenia: treatments and the interactionist approach
Eating behaviour: food preference and control of eating
Eating behaviour: anorexia nervosa and obesity
Stress: physiology, illness and sources of stress
Stress: measurement, individual differences and coping
Paper 3 Option 3: Aggression / Forensic Psychology / Addiction
Aggression: biological and ethological explanations
Aggression: social psychological, institutional and media influences
Forensic Psychology: offender profiling and explanations of offending
Forensic Psychology: dealing with offending behaviour
Addiction: describing addiction, risk factors and explanations
Addiction: reducing addiction and behaviour change
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