My Revision Notes: Edexcel A level Psychology

✍ Scribed by Ali Abbas

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Psychology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Target success in Edexcel A level Psychology with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.
With My Revision Notes, every student can:
- Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner
- Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage
- Test understanding and identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and
answers
- Improve exam technique through practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to
avoid
- Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the practice questions available online

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
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1 Social psychology
Defining social psychology
Obedience
Prejudice
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
2 Cognitive psychology
Defining cognitive psychology
Models/theories of memory
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
3 Biological psychology
Defining biological psychology
The central nervous system
Brain functioning and aggression
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
4 Learning theories
Defining learning theories
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Social learning theory
Learning theories and phobias
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
5 Clinical psychology
Defining clinical psychology
Diagnosis of mental disorders including the four ‘Ds’
Schizophrenia
Treatments for schizophrenia
Anorexia nervosa
Treatments for anorexia
Unipolar depression
Treatments for unipolar depression
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Treatments for OCD
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
6 Criminal psychology
Defining criminal psychology
Biological explanations of crime
Social explanations of crime
Understanding the offender, offence analysis and case formulation
Treatments for offenders
Factors influencing eyewitness testimony
Factors influencing jury decision-making
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
7 Child psychology
Defining child psychology
Attachment, deprivation and privation
Day care
Cross-cultural research into attachment types
Autism
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
8 Health psychology
Defining health psychology
Issues around drug taking
Explanations of drug addiction
Treatments for drug addiction
Anti-drug campaigns
Individual differences and developmental psychology
Methods
Studies
Key questions
Practical investigation
Issues and debates
9 Psychological skills
Methods
Synoptic review of studies
Issues and debates
Now test yourself answers
Glossary