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A Level AQA Psychology COPY

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1.1: Conformity (majority influence)

1.2: Informational social influence (ISI)

1.2: Normative social influence (NSI)

1.2: Arthur Jenness (1932)

1.2: Solomon Asch (1955) + Mori and Arai (2010)

1.3: Situational variables

1.4: Conformity to social roles and Philip Zimbardo (1973)

1.5: Stanley Milgram (1963)

1.5: Ethical considerations

1.5: Methodological criticisms

1.5: Jerry Burger (2009)

1.5: Charles Hofling et al. (1966)

1.6: The agentic state

1.7: The external explanation

1.7: The internal explanation

1.8: Social support

1.8: Locus of control

1.8: Other factors involved in the resistance of obedience

1.9: Behavioural style - Consistency and commitment

1.9: Serge Moscovici et al. (1969)

1.9: Flexibility

1.10: Social change

2.1: The MSM and the sensory register (SR)

2.1: Short-term memory (STM)

2.1: Alan Baddeley (1966)

2.1: Long-term memory (LTM)

2.2: The WMM and the central executive (CE)

2.2: The phonological loop (PL)

2.2: The visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)

2.2: The episodic buffer

2.3: Episodic LTM

2.3: Semantic LTM

2.3: Procedural LTM

2.4: Interference theory (IT)

2.4: Cue-dependent forgetting (CDF)

2.4: Repression

2.4: Eyewitness testimony (EWT)

2.5: Misleading information

2.5: Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer (1974)

2.6: The cognitive interview (CI)

2.6: The enhanced cognitive interview (ECI)

3.1: Caregiver-infant interactions in humans

3.1: Stages of attachment development

3.1: Rudi Schaffer and Peggy Emerson (1964)

3.1: The role of the father

3.2: Animal studies of attachment

3.2: Konrad Lorenz (1935) - Imprinting

3.2: Harry Harlow (1959) - Even baby monkeys need comfort more than food

3.2: Other research

3.3: Learning theory

3.3: Bowlby's monotropic theory (1951, 1969, 1973)

3.4: Ainsworth et al's 1978 'Strange Situation'

3.4: Cultural variations in attachment

3.4: Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988)

3.5: Short-term separation

3.5: Long-term deprivation

3.5: Institutionalisation

3.5: Romanian orphan studies

3.6: Childhood relationships

3.6: Adult relationships

3.6: Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver (1987)

4.1: The deviation from social norms definition

4.1: The failure to function adequately definition

4.1: Deviation from the ideal mental health definition

4.1: The statistical infrequency definition

4.2: Depression

4.2: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

4.2: The explanation and treatment of mental disorders

4.3: Explaining phobias

4.3: Treating phobias

4.4: Explaining depression

4.4: Treating depression

4.4: Contemporary research

4.5: Genetic explanations

4.5: Contemporary research

4.5: Neural explanations

4.5: The biological approach to treating OCD

4.5: Contemporary research COPY

4.5: Other treatments

5.1: The emergence of psychology as a science

5.1: The approaches

5.2: Basic assumptions

5.2: The influence of genes on behaviour

5.2: Biological structures

5.2: Neurochemistry

5.3: The behaviourist approach

5.3: Social learning theory

5.3: Classic research

5.4: Mental processes

5.4: Classic research

6.1: The central nervous system (CNS)

6.1: The peripheral nervous system (PNS)

6.2: The process of synaptic transmission

6.3: The influence of neurochemistry on behaviour: The function of the endocrine system

6.4: The fight-or-flight response, including the role of adrenaline

6.5: Classic case study

6.5: Hemispheric lateralisation

6.5: Motor centres

6.5: Contemporary case study

6.5: Split-brain research

6.5: Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain after trauma

6.5: Contemporary case study COPY

6.5: Contemporary research

6.6: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

6.6: Electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs)

6.6: Post-mortem examinations

6.7: Circadian rhythms

6.7: Infradian rhythms

6.7: Ultradian rhythms

6.7: Classic research

7.1: The experimental method

7.1: Types of experiment

7.1: Observational techniques

7.1: Observational design

7.1: Self-report techniques

7.1: Correlational studies

7.1: Case studies

7.2: Hypotheses

7.2: Pilot studies

7.2: Experimental designs

7.2: Ethical issues

7.2: The implications of psychological research for the economy

7.2: Reliability

7.2: Features of science

7.3: Quantitative and qualitative data

7.3: Primary and secondary data

7.3: Meta-analysis

7.3: Content analysis

7.3: Thematic analysis

7.3: Descriptive statistics

7.3: Presentation of quantitative data

7.3: Distributions

7.3: Introduction to statistical testing

7.3: Analysis and interpretation of correlation

7.4: Levels of measurement

7.4: Probability and significance

7.4: Statistical tests

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