Psychology study guides

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.1 Social influence. Covers types and explanations of conformity, Asch and Zimbardo, Milgram's obedience research and its explanations, resistance to social influence, minority influence and social change.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.2 Memory. Covers the multi-store model, the working memory model, types of long-term memory, explanations for forgetting, factors affecting eyewitness testimony and the cognitive interview.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.3 Attachment. Covers caregiver-infant interactions, animal studies, learning theory and Bowlby's monotropic theory, the Strange Situation, cultural variations, maternal deprivation and the influence of early attachment.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.4 Psychopathology. Covers definitions of abnormality, the characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD, and the behavioural, cognitive and biological approaches to explaining and treating them.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.5 Approaches in Psychology. Covers the origins of psychology, the behaviourist, social learning, cognitive, biological, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches, and how they compare on key debates.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.6 Biopsychology. Covers the nervous and endocrine systems, neurons and synaptic transmission, localisation and lateralisation, plasticity and functional recovery, ways of studying the brain and biological rhythms.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.7 Research methods. Covers experimental methods and design, observations, self-report, correlations, sampling, data handling and descriptive statistics, and inferential testing.

A complete AQA A-Level Psychology guide to module 4.8 Issues and debates. Covers gender and culture bias, free will and determinism, the nature-nurture debate, holism and reductionism, idiographic and nomothetic approaches, and ethical implications.