Adelaide McLaughlin

Oxford Revise: AQA A Level Psychology

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Produktbeschreibung

This supportive revision guide will help your students revise all the topics they need to know to do well in the AQA A Level Psychology exams. UK schools save 50% off the RRP! Discount will be automatically applied when you order on your school account.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Revise
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 296mm x 210mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781382034098
• ISBN-10: 1382034091
• Artikelnr.: 64035066

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Social influence
* 1.1: Types and explanations of conformity
* 1.2: Variables affecting conformity as investigated by Asch
* 1.3: Conformity to social roles as investigated by Zimbardo
* 1.4: Situational variables affecting obedience
* 1.5: Explanations for obedience
* 1.6: Dispositional explanation for obedience: the Authoritarian
Personality
* 1.7: Explanations of resistance to social influence
* 1.8: Minority influence
* 1.9: The role of social influence processes in social change
* 2: Memory
* 2.1: Short- and long-term memory
* 2.2: The multi-store model of memory
* 2.3: The working model of memory
* 2.4: Types of long-term memory
* 2.5: Explanations for forgetting: interference theory
* 2.6: Explanations for forgetting: retrieval failure
* 2.7: Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony:
misleading information
* 2.8: Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: anxiety
* 2.9: Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: the cognitive
interview
* 3: Attachment
* 3.1: Caregiver-infant interactions and the role of the father
* 3.2: Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer
* 3.3: Animal studies of attachment
* 3.4: Explanations of attachment: learning theory of attachment
* 3.5: Explanations of attachment: Bowlby's monotropic theory of
attachment
* 3.6: Ainsworth's Strange Situation and types of attachment
* 3.7: Cultural variations in attachment
* 3.8: Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation
* 3.9: Romanian orphan studies and the effects of institutionalisation
* 3.10: The influence of early attachment on later relationships
* 4: Psychopathology
* 4.1: Definitions of abnormality
* 4.2: Phobias, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder
* 4.3: The behavioural approach to explaining phobias
* 4.4: The behavioural approach to treating phobias
* 4.5: The cognitive approach to explaining depression
* 4.6: The cognitive approach to treating depression
* 4.7: The biological approach to explaining OCD
* 4.8: The biological approach to treating OCD
* 5: Approaches
* 5.1: The origins of psychology
* 5.2: Learning approaches: the behaviourist approach
* 5.3: Learning approaches: social learning theory
* 5.4: The cognitive approach
* 5.5: The biological approach
* 5.6: The psychodynamic approach
* 5.7: The humanistic approach
* 5.8: Comparison of approaches
* 6: Biopsychology
* 6.1: The nervous system
* 6.2: Synaptic transmission
* 6.3: The endocrine system
* 6.4: The fight or flight response
* 6.5: Localisation of function
* 6.6: Hemispheric lateralisation
* 6.7: Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain after trauma
* 6.8: Ways of studying the brain
* 6.9: Biological rhythms: circadian rhythms
* 6.10: Biological rhythms: infradian and ultradian rhythms
* 6.11: Biological rhythms: endogenous pacemakers and exogenous
zeitgebers
* 7: Research methods
* 7.1: Experimental method: aims, hypotheses, and variables
* 7.2: Control of variables, experimental methods
* 7.3: Experimental designs, sampling
* 7.4: Ethical issues
* 7.5: Pilot studies and improving internal validity
* 7.6: Observational techniques and design
* 7.7: Self-report techniques: questionnaires and interviews
* 7.8: Correlations
* 7.9: Analysis and case studies
* 7.10: Types of data
* 7.11: Describing and presenting data
* 7.12: Analysis and peer review
* 7.13: Statistical testing and the sign test
* 7.14: Features and benefits of psychological research
* 7.15: Reliability and validity across all methods of investigation
* 7.16: Probability and significance
* 7.17: Factors affecting the choice of statistical test; experimental
reports
* 8: Issues, debates, and approaches
* 8.1: Gender bias in psychology
* 8.2: Cultural bias in psychology
* 8.3: Free will and determinism
* 8.4: The nature-nurture debate
* 8.5: Holism and reductionism
* 8.6: Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological
investigation
* 8.7: Ethical implications of research studies and theory
* 9: Relationships
* 9.1: Evolutionary explanations for partner preferences
* 9.2: Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships:
self-disclosure
* 9.3: Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: physical
attractiveness
* 9.4: Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: filter
theory
* 9.5: Theories of relationships: social exchange theory
* 9.6: Theories of relationships: equity theory
* 9.7: Theories of relationships: investment theory
* 9.8: Theories of relationships: breakdown
* 9.9: Virtual relationships in social media
* 9.10: Parasocial relationships
* 10: Gender
* 10.1: Sex-role stereotypes and androgyny
* 10.2: The role of chromosomes and hormones in sex and gender
* 10.3: Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter's syndrome and
Turner's syndrome
* 10.4: Cognitive explanations of gender development: Kohlberg's theory
* 10.5: Cognitive explanations of gender development: gender schema
theory
* 10.6: Psychodynamic explanations of gender development: Freud's
psychoanalytic theory
* 10.7: Social learning theory as applied to gender development
* 10.8: The influence of culture and media on gender roles
* 10.9: Atypical gender development: gender dysphoria