Psychology study guides
A-LEVEL-EDUQAS Β· A-Level (WJEC Eduqas) Β· aligned to WJEC Eduqas.
- Eduqas A-Level Psychology: research methods and statistics (Component 2) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to Component 2, Investigating Behaviour: the experimental method, observation and self-report, correlation and case studies, sampling and ethics, reliability and validity, descriptive and inferential statistics, and the two personal investigations, with the test-choice decision and how the paper is marked.
π 14 min readEduqas-A290-Component-2 - Eduqas A-Level Psychology: the controversies (Component 3) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to the controversies in Component 3: ethics in psychological research, the use of non-human animals, cultural bias, the scientific status of psychology, and gender bias and sexism. Covers the two sides of each controversy and how to reach a judgement on Implications in the Real World.
π 13 min readEduqas-A290-Component-3 - Eduqas A-Level Psychology: the five approaches (Component 1) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to the five approaches in Component 1: biological, behaviourist, psychodynamic, cognitive and positive. Covers each approach's assumptions, named therapy, the AS and A2 split, and how the approaches are examined on the Past to Present paper.
π 13 min readEduqas-A290-Component-1 - Eduqas A-Level Psychology: the five classic research studies (Component 1) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to the five classic research studies in Component 1, one for each approach: Raine et al. (1997), Watson and Rayner (1920), Freud's Little Hans (1909), Bartlett (1932) and Myers and Diener (1995). Covers each as aim, method, results and evaluation, and how the studies are examined on Past to Present.
π 13 min readEduqas-A290-Component-1 - Eduqas A-Level Psychology: the five contemporary debates (Component 1) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to the five contemporary debates in Component 1, one for each approach: the ethics of neuroscience, conditioning children, the mother as primary caregiver, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, and the relevance of positive psychology. Covers each debate's two sides and how to reach a judgement on Past to Present.
π 12 min readEduqas-A290-Component-1 - Eduqas A-Level Psychology: the six behaviours (Component 3) overview
A complete Eduqas A-Level Psychology guide to the six behaviours in Component 3, from which you study three: addictive behaviour, autistic spectrum behaviour, bullying behaviour, criminal behaviour, schizophrenia and stress. Covers how the approaches explain each, the methods of modifying or treating each, and how the behaviours are examined on Implications in the Real World.
π 13 min readEduqas-A290-Component-3