Psychology - J203

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Free Psychology - J203 study notes for Cambridge OCR GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Criminal Psychology

  • Key Concepts

  • The Social Learning Theory

  • Eysenck’s Criminal Personality Theory

  • The changing nature of punishment

Development

  • Key Concepts

  • Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

  • Dweck’s Mindset Theory

  • Willingham’s Learning Theory

  • The changing role of education

Psychological Problems

  • Key Concepts

  • Biological Explanation of Schizophrenia

  • Psychological Explanation of Schizophrenia

  • Biological Explanation of Clinical Depression

  • Psychological Explanation of Clinical Depression

  • The development of treatments

Social Influence

Memory

  • Key Concepts

  • The Multi-store Model of Memory

  • The Theory of Reconstructive Memory

  • Techniques used for recall

Sleep and Dreaming

  • Key Concepts

  • The Nature of Dreaming

  • The Freudian Theory of Dreaming

  • The Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreaming

  • Development of treatments for insomnia

Research Methods

  • Planning research: hypotheses, variables, experimental designs, sampling and ethics

  • Doing research: experiments, interviews, questionnaires, observations, case studies and correlations

  • Analysing research: types of data, descriptive statistics, reliability and validity, sources of bias

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