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Psychology (8PS0)
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Free Psychology (8PS0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Topic 1: Social psychology
Obedience: theories and research
Prejudice: explanations and research
Prescribed studies: social psychology
Research methods: self-report and sampling
Key questions and practical investigation (social psychology)
Topic 2: Cognitive psychology
Memory models: multi-store and working memory
Reconstructive memory and long-term memory types
Prescribed studies: cognitive psychology
Research methods: experiments and inferential statistics
Key questions and practical investigation (cognitive psychology)
Topic 3: Biological psychology
Nervous system, brain and aggression
Hormones, evolution and psychodynamic explanations of aggression
Prescribed studies: biological psychology
Research methods: correlations, brain-scanning and twin studies
Key questions and practical investigation (biological psychology)
Topic 4: Learning theories
Classical and operant conditioning
Social learning theory and treatments for phobias
Prescribed studies: learning theories
Research methods: observation, animal research and chi-squared
Key questions and practical investigation (learning theories)
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