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AQA A-Level Psychology For A-level Year 1 and AS 1 by Jean-Marc Lawton Eleanor Willard

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AQA A-Level Psychology For A-level Year 1 and AS 1 by Jean-Marc Lawton Eleanor Willard Contents Introduction 00 1. Social influences 00 1.1 Types of conformity 00 1.2 Explanations for conformi ... ty 00 1.3 Variables affecting conformity 00 1.4 Conformity to social roles 00 1.5 The work of Milgram 00 1.6 Explanations for obedience 00 1.7 Variables affecting obedience 00 1.8 Explanations of resistance 00 1.9 Minority influence 00 1.10 The role of social influence processes in social change 00 2. Memory 00 2.1 The multi-store model 00 2.2 Working memory model 00 2.3 Types of long-term memory 00 2.4 Explanations for forgetting 00 2.5 Factors affecting eyewitness testimony 00 2.6 Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony 00 3. Attachment 00 3.1 Caregiver–infant interactions in humans 00 3.2 Animal studies of attachment 00 3.3 Explanations of attachment 00 3.4 Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’ 00 3.5 Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation 00 3.6 The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships 00 4. Psychopathology 00 4.1 Definitions of abnormality 00 4.2 Characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD 00 4.3 The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias 00 4.4 The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression 00 4.5 The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD 005. Approaches for AS 5.1 Origins of psychology: Wundt, introspection and the emergence of psychology as a science 00 5.2 The Biological Approach 00 5.3 Learning Approaches 00 5.4 The Cognitive Approach 00 6. Biopsychology for AS and A-level 00 6.1 The divisions of the nervous system 00 6.2 The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons 00 6.3 The function of the endocrine system 00 6.4 The fight or flight response including the role of adrenaline 00 6.5 Localisation of function in the brain and hemispheric lateralisation 00 6.6 Ways of studying the brain 00 6.7 Biological rhythms 00 7. Research methods for AS and A-level 00 00 7.1 Research methods 00 7.2 Scientific processes 00 7.3 Data handling and analysis 00 7.4 Inferential testing 00 [Show More]

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