PsychologyQ&A by dot point

Application of research methods (Section B): brain-scanning techniques, longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, extended reliability and validity, distributions and descriptive statistics, and choosing and interpreting inferential tests.

Personal investigations (Section A): the practical investigations carried out across the course (such as a Stroop or memory experiment, an observation and a correlation) and the design, analysis and evaluation skills they assess.

Addictive behaviours (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of addiction, and one therapy or intervention used to treat it.

Autistic spectrum behaviours (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of autism, and one therapy or intervention used to support autistic people.

Bullying behaviours (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of bullying, and one intervention used to reduce it.

Controversies (Section B): cultural bias, research ethics, the use of non-human animals, psychology as a science, and sexism in psychology.

Criminal behaviours (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of criminality, and one intervention used to reduce reoffending.

Schizophrenia (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of schizophrenia, and one therapy or intervention used to treat it.

Stress (Section A): biological, individual and social explanations of stress, and one therapy or intervention used to manage it.

The behaviourist approach: assumptions, application to the formation of relationships, the therapy of systematic desensitisation, the classic study of Watson and Rayner (1920), and evaluation.

The biological approach: assumptions, application to the formation of relationships, the therapy of drug treatment, the classic study of Raine et al. (1997), and evaluation.

The cognitive approach: assumptions, application to the formation of relationships, the therapy of cognitive behaviour therapy, the classic study of Loftus and Palmer (1974), and evaluation.

The positive approach: assumptions, application to the formation of relationships, the therapy of positive psychology techniques, the classic study of Myers and Diener (1995), and evaluation.

The psychodynamic approach: assumptions, application to the formation of relationships, the therapy of psychoanalysis, the classic study of Bowlby (1944), and evaluation.

Contemporary debates (Section A): applying the five approaches to a current debate such as the ethics of neuroscience, the importance of mothering, conditioning children, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, and the value of positive psychology.

Core research for Unit 2: Milgram (1963) on obedience to authority and Kohlberg (1968) on the stages of moral development, including procedure, findings, conclusions and evaluation.

Research methods (Section B): hypotheses, variables, experimental and non-experimental methods, experimental designs, sampling, reliability, validity, and ethics.