Welcome to the section of the website where Lauren's AS resources are held (powerpoints, handouts etc)
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PSYA1 - May exam
Revision materials - let me know if you want them printing!
- Qualitative & quantitative data
- Variables
- Aims & Hypotheses
- Experimental methods
- Non experimental methods
- Participants (sampling & experimental design)
- Ethical issues
- Quantitative data analysis
- Qualitative data analysis
- Measures of central tendency & dispersion
Memory
- Multi-store model, including the concepts of encoding, capacity and duration. Strengths and limitations of the model
- The working memory model, including its strengths and limitations
- Factors affecting the accuracy of EWT, including;
- Improving the accuracy of EWT - including the use of the cognitive interview
- Strategies for memory improvement
Attachment
- Explanations of attachment, including learning theory and Bowlby's theory
- Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure-resistant
- Individual differences in attachment (including the use of "The Strange Situation")
- Cultural variations in attachment
- The effects of disruption of attachment
- Failure to form attachment (privation)
- Effects of institutionalisation
- The impact of day care on social development
- Impact on child care practices
PSYA2 - May exam
Individual Differences
Stress
- The body's response to stress
- Stress and the immune system
- Life changes & daily hassles
- Stress and the workplace
- Personality factors (type A & B) and Hardiness
- Stress management (Psychological and Physiological)
Social Influence
- Types of conformity - Compliance and Internalisation
- Explanations for conformity - Normative SI and Informational SI
- Obedience to authority
- Explanations for obedience to authority
- Independent behaviour
- Social change
- The body's response to stress
- Stress and the immune system
- Life changes & daily hassles
- Stress and the workplace
- Personality factors (type A & B) and Hardiness
- Stress management (Psychological and Physiological)
Social Influence
- Types of conformity - Compliance and Internalisation
- Explanations for conformity - Normative SI and Informational SI
- Obedience to authority
- Explanations for obedience to authority
- Independent behaviour
- Social change