Psychology Specification
AQA spec
- Created by: Rowan Webber
- Created on: 06-12-10 17:16
Psych Spec Check
Psychology Specification Check
Models of memory - 1
• The multi-store model, including the concepts of encoding, capacity and
duration. Strengths and weaknesses of the model
Models of memory - 2
• The working memory model, including its strengths and weaknesses
Memory in everyday life - 1
• Eyewitness testimony (EWT) and factors affecting the accuracy of EWT,
including anxiety, age of witness
Memory in everyday life - 2
• Misleading information and the use of the cognitive interview
Memory in everyday life - 3
• Strategies for memory improvement
Attachment - 1
• Explanations of attachment, including learning theory, and evolutionary
perspective, including Bowlby
Attachment - 2
• Types of attachment, including insecure and secure attachment and studies by
Ainsworth
Attachment - 3
• Cultural variations in attachment
Attachment - 4
• Disruption of attachment, failure to form attachment (privation) and the effects
of institutionalisation
Attachment in everyday life - 1
• The impact of different forms of day care on children’s social development,
including the effects on aggression and peer relations
Attachment in everyday life - 2
• Implications of research into attachment and day care for child care practice
Methods and techniques - 1
• Experimental method, including laboratory, field and natural experiments, adv+wea
Methods and techniques - 2
• Studies using a correlational analysis, adv+wea
Methods and techniques - 3
• Observational techniques, adv+wea
Methods and techniques - 4
• Self-report techniques including questionnaire and interview, adv+wea
Methods and techniques - 5
• Case studies, adv+wea
Investigation design - 1
• Aims
• Hypotheses, including directional and non-directional
• Experimental design (independent groups, repeated measures and matched
pairs)
• Design of naturalistic observations, including the development and use of
behavioural categories
Investigation design - 2
• Design of questionnaires and interviews
• Operationalisation of variables, including independent and dependent variables
• Pilot studies
• Control of extraneous variables
Investigation design - 3
• Reliability and validity
• Awareness of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Code of Ethics
• Ethical issues and ways in which psychologists deal with them
Investigation design - 4
• Selection of participants and sampling techniques, including random,
opportunity and volunteer sampling
• Demand characteristics and investigator effects
Data analysis and presentation - 1
• Presentation and interpretation of quantitative data including graphs,
scattergrams and tables
Data analysis and presentation - 2
• Analysis and interpretation of quantitative data. Measures of central tendency
including median, mean, mode. Measures of dispersion including ranges and
standard deviation
Data analysis and presentation - 3
• Analysis and interpretation of correlational data. Positive and negative
correlations and the interpretation of correlation coefficients
Data analysis and presentation - 4
• Presentation of qualitative data
• Processes involved in content analysis
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