PsychologyQ&A by dot point

Child psychology: attachment theory (Bowlby) and types (Ainsworth's Strange Situation), the role of the father, deprivation, privation and institutionalisation, day care, cross-cultural research into attachment, autism, and the named studies for the chosen application option.

Criminological or health psychology: explanations of the chosen application (offending or health behaviour), biological and social factors, treatments or interventions, and the named application studies.

Inferential statistics and qualitative analysis: probability and significance, the five Edexcel inferential tests, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, the normal and skewed distributions, and the analysis of qualitative data through thematic analysis and grounded theory.

Issues and debates: nature-nurture, free will and determinism, reductionism and holism, ethics and social control, gender and cultural bias, and the use of psychology in the real world.

Key studies and classic research: the named classic studies across topics, how to evaluate studies methodologically and ethically, and reviewing and synthesising research evidence.

Biological psychology: the structure and function of the brain and neurons, neurotransmitters and synaptic transmission, the influence of hormones, genes and evolution, and key biological studies.

Biopsychology and aggression: brain structures, neurotransmitters, hormones and genes in aggression, evolutionary and learning explanations, and the named aggression studies.

Learning theories: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning theory, and their application to explaining and treating behaviour, with key learning studies.

Depression or anxiety: symptoms and diagnosis, biological and cognitive explanations, drug and psychological treatments, and the named studies for the chosen second disorder.

Diagnosis of mental disorders: definitions of abnormality, the DSM and ICD classification systems, reliability and validity of diagnosis, and cultural and ethical issues.

Schizophrenia: symptoms and diagnosis, biological explanations (dopamine, genetics) and psychological explanations, biological and psychological treatments, and the named schizophrenia studies.

Treatments and the medical model: the assumptions of the medical model, drug therapies, the role of biochemistry, and a comparison with psychological treatments and their effectiveness.

Cognitive psychology: the multi-store model, the working memory model, the reconstructive nature of memory, theories of forgetting, and key cognitive studies.

Eyewitness testimony: the reliability of memory, the effect of leading questions, post-event information, anxiety and weapon focus, the named contemporary study (Loftus and Palmer), the cognitive interview, and the types of long-term memory.

Research methods: experiments and other methods, sampling, experimental design, variables and hypotheses, descriptive and inferential statistics, and the chosen inferential tests.

Social psychology: obedience (Milgram and agency theory), prejudice (social identity theory and realistic conflict theory), individual and situational explanations, and key social studies.