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Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Psychology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

AQA Approved
Equip your students with the knowledge and the skills that they need for the new AQA Psychology AS and A-level; guidance on assessment objectives, activities and clear, comprehensive coverage consolidates understanding and develops key skills to ensure progression
- Thoroughly engage your students with Psychology at AS and A-level through extensive real-life contemporary research
- Ensure your students learn and understand content for all the key topics with popular clear, accessible style from Jean-Marc Lawton and Eleanor Willard
- Help your students understand the assessment objectives and develop their examination skills with assessment guidance and checks throughout and practice questions
- Ensure progression and encourage independent thinking with extension suggestions and activities
- Supports co-teaching of AS and year one A-level for the new AQA specification Let me celebrate how good the new AS AQA text book is for Psychology. It's really propelling learning with great assessment checks and 'strengthening your learning' exercises, and students find it fairly easy to read. -- Ian Thompson, Ho Psychology at Larne Grammar * Abigail Lambert *

AQA A-level Psychology Book 1

Chapter 1: Social psychology: social influences





1.1: Types of conformity

1.2: Explanations for conformity

1.3: Variables affecting conformity

1.4: Conformity to social roles

1.5: Obedience and the work of Milgram

1.6: Explanations for obedience

1.7: Situational variables affecting obedience

1.8: Explanations of resistance to social influence

1.9: Minority influence

1.10: The role of social influence processes in social change





Chapter 2: Cognitive psychology: memory





2.1: The multi-store model (MSM)

2.2: The working memory model (WMM)

2.3: Types of long-term memory

2.4: Explanations for forgetting

2.5: Factors affecting the accuracy of eye-witness testimony (EWT)

2.6: Improving the accuracy of eye-witness testimony





Chapter 3: Developmental psychology: attachment





3.1: Caregiver-infant interactions in humans

3.2: Animal studies of attachment

3.3: Explanations of attachment

3.4: Ainsworth's 'Strange situation'

3.5: Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis (MDH) (1951)

3.6: The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships





Chapter 4: Individual differences: psychopathology





4.1: Definitions of abnormality

4.2: Characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD

4.3: The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias

4.4: The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression

4.5: The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD





Chapter 5: Approaches for AS Psychology





5.1: Origins of psychology: Wundt, introspection and the emergence of psychology as a science

5.2: The biological approach

5.3: Learning approaches

5.4: The cognitive approach





Chapter 6: Biopsychology for AS and A-level





6.1: The influence of biological structures on behaviour: the divisions of the nervous system

6.2: The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons

6.3: The influence of neurochemistry on behaviour: the function of the endocrine system

6.4: The fight-or-flight response including the role of adrenaline

6.5: Localisation of function in the brain

6.6: Ways of studying the brain

6.7: Biological rhythms





Chapter 7: Research methods for AS and A Level





7.1: Research methods

7.2: Scientific processes

7.3: Data handling and analysis

7.4: Inferential testing