Psychology (8PS0)

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Free Psychology (8PS0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel AS Level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Paper 1: Social and cognitive psychology

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)

Cognitive 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)

    Paper 2: Biological psychology and learning theories

      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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