AS topics for A-Level psychology (not including research methods)
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- AS topics
- Social influence
- Conformity: Types and explanations, Asch's research, Zimbardo's research
- Obedience: Milgram's research, situational variables, scoial-psychological factors, dispositional explanations
- Resistance to social influence
- Minority influence
- Social influence and social change
- Attachment
- Intro to attachment
- Cultural variations in attachment
- Schaffer's stages of attachment
- Animal studies of attachment
- Explanations of attachmnet: Learning theory, Bowlby's theory
- Ainsworth's strange situation
- Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation
- Romanian orphan studies
- influence of early attachment on later relationships
- Intro to attachment
- Memory
- Coding, capacity and duration
- The multi-store model
- Types of long term memory
- The working memory model
- Explanations for forgetting: Interference, retrival failure
- Factors affectng EWT: Misleading information, anxiety
- Improving the accuracy of EWT
- Approaches
- Origins of psychology
- The learning approach: Behaviourism, Social lerning theory
- The cognitive approach
- The biological approach
- Biopsychology: The nervous system and endocrine system, neurons and synaptic transmission
- The psychodynamic approach
- Humanistic psychology
- Comparison of approaches
- Psychopathology
- Definitions of abnormality
- Phobias
- Obsessive compulsive disordedr
- The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias
- The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression
- Depression
- The biological approach to explainging and treating OCD
- Social influence
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