AQA A-Level Psychology Resource Library
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Application Story Activity - Generic - A01, A02 & A03
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Students use notes to find key terms & definitions. Then write short stem style story to hint at terms. then pass to second group who have to identify correct part of story to terms.
Essay Structure Template
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A tool to help students develop better essay structure technique and time management. Provides hints about when to move on to another part and what to write.
Notes Tracking Document
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Student version of note tracking document for flipped notes and quiz completion.
The creation of this free to access database of resources is an ongoing project to help people learn and teach psychology, this works as a companion to my completed A-level flipped video lectures.
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Types and Explanations of conformity
Variables affecting conformity
Social Influence
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Conformity to social roles
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Explanations for obedience
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Minority influence
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The role of social influence processes
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90 Question QUIZ
Mind Map
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The multi-store model of memory
Types of long-term memory
The working memory model
Explanations for forgetting
Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Memory
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Caregiver-infant interactions, Stages of attachment
Animal studies of attachment
Explanations of attachment
Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’
Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation
The influence of early attachment
Attachment
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Definitions of abnormality
Characteristics
The behavioural approach to explaining Phobias
The behavioural approach to treating Phobias
The cognitive approach to explaining Depression
The cognitive approach to treating Depression
Psychopathology
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The biological approach to explaining OCD
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The biological approach to treating OCD
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Origins of Psychology
Learning Approaches: Behaviourist Approach
Learning Approaches: Social Learning Theory
The Cognitive Approach
The Biological Approach
The Psychodynamic Approach
Approaches
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Comparison of Approaches
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The divisions of the nervous system
The structure and function of Neurons
Biological Psychology
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The function of the Endocrine System
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The fight or flight response
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Localisation of function in the brain
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Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain
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Ways of studying the brain
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Biological rhythms
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Research Methods
Experimental Method
Observational techniques
Self-report techniques
Correlations
Content analysis
Case studies
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Scientific Processes
Aims
Hypotheses
Sampling
Pilot Studies
Experimental Designs
Observational Design
Questionnaire construction
Variables
Control
Demand characteristics
Ethics
peer review
Psychology & the economy
Reliability
Types of validity
Features of science
Reporting psychological investigations
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Data Handling and Analysis
Quantitative and qualitative
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Research
Methods
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Primary and secondary data
Descriptive statistics
Presentation and display
Distributions
Correlation Analysis
Levels of measurement
Content analysis and coding
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Inferential Testing
The Sign Test
Probability and Significance
Choice of Statistical Test
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Gender in psychology
Culture in psychology
Issues and debates
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Free will and determinism
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The nature-nurture debate
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Holism and reductionism
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Idiographic and nomothetic
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Ethical implications and Social Sensitivity
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The evolutionary explanations for partner preferences
Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships
filter theory
Theories of romantic relationships
Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown
Virtual relationships in social media
Relationships
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Parasocial relationships
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Sex and gender
The role of chromosomes and hormones
Cognitive explanations of gender development
gender schema theory
Psychodynamic explanation of gender development
Social learning theory as applied to gender development
Atypical gender development
Gender
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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
stages of intellectual development
Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development
Baillargeon’s explanation of early infant abilities
The development of social cognition
Theory of mind
The mirror neuron system in social cognition
Cognition and development
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Classification of schizophrenia
Reliability and validity in diagnosis
Biological explanations
Psychological explanations
Drug therapy:
CBT and family therapy
Schizophrenia
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interactionist approach
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Explanations for food preferences
Role of learning in food preference
Neural and hormonal mechanisms
Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa
Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa
Biological explanations for obesity
Eating behaviour
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Psychological explanations for obesity
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The physiology of stress
The role of stress in illness
Sources of stress
Measuring stress
Individual differences in stress
Managing and coping with stress
Stress
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The role of social support in coping with stress
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Neural and hormonal mechanisms
Genetic factors in aggression
The ethological explanation of aggression
Evolutionary explanations
Social psychological explanations
Institutional aggression
Media influences on aggression
Aggression
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Problems in defining crime
Offender profiling
Biological explanations of offending behaviour
Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
differential association theory;
Dealing with offending behaviour
Behaviour modification
Forensic psychology
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Describing addiction:
Risk factors in the development of addiction
Explanations for nicotine addiction
Explanations for gambling addiction
Reducing addiction
The theory of planned behaviour
Addiction
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Prochaska’s six-stage model
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