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PsychologyQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Scotland Psychology syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Individual Behaviour
- Depression: the nature, symptoms and diagnosis of depression, biological and psychological explanations of its causes, biological and psychological treatments, and the supporting research evidence and methods.3Q&A pairs
- Memory: the structure and processes of memory, models and explanations of memory, theories of forgetting, and the research evidence and methods used to study memory.2Q&A pairs
- Sleep, dreams and sleep disorders: the nature and stages of sleep, theories and explanations of why we sleep and dream, sleep disorders, and the research evidence and methods used to study sleep.3Q&A pairs
- Stress: the nature and physiology of stress, sources and causes of stress, the effects of stress on health, methods of coping with and managing stress, and the supporting research evidence and methods.2Q&A pairs
Research
- Analysing and presenting data: qualitative and quantitative data, descriptive statistics including measures of central tendency and dispersion, methods of presenting data, and drawing conclusions from research findings.2Q&A pairs
- Research methods and the experiment: the main research methods used in psychology, the experimental method, hypotheses and variables, experimental designs, and the strengths and weaknesses of each method.2Q&A pairs
- Sampling, ethics, reliability and validity: methods of sampling participants, the ethical issues and guidelines in psychological research, and the concepts of reliability and validity used to judge a study's quality.2Q&A pairs
- The Higher Psychology assignment: an overview of the researched report worth 40 marks, including the research question, the use of research methods, the analysis of findings, and the conclusions and evaluation.2Q&A pairs
Social Behaviour
- Aggression: the nature of aggression, biological, psychological and social explanations of aggressive behaviour, factors that increase aggression, and the research evidence and methods used to study it.2Q&A pairs
- Conformity and obedience: the nature of conformity and obedience, explanations of why people conform and obey, factors that affect them, and the key research evidence and methods used to study social influence.2Q&A pairs
- Prejudice: the nature of prejudice and discrimination, explanations of why prejudice develops, methods of reducing prejudice, and the research evidence and methods used to study it.2Q&A pairs
- Social relationships: the nature of social relationships, explanations of why relationships form, are maintained and break down, factors affecting attraction, and the research evidence and methods used to study relationships.2Q&A pairs