A Level Psychology Knowledge Organisers (P1)

These knowledge organisers cover all content and evaluation points for AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1, to include the following topics:

Memory:

• Atkinson & Shiffrin’s (1968) multi-store model
• Research into STM and LTM
• Baddeley & Hitch’s (1974) working memory model
• Types of LTM
• Explanations for forgetting - interference and retrieval failure
• Factors affecting the accuracy of EWT - misleading information and anxiety
• The cognitive interview

Social Influence:

• Types of and explanations for conformity
• Variables affecting conformity
• Conformity to social roles
• Explanations for obedience - the agentic state, legitimacy of authority and the authoritarian personality
• Minority influence
• Explanations for resistance to social influence - social support and locus of control
• Social change

Attachment:

• Caregiver-infant interaction
• Stages of attachment
• The role of the father
• Animal studies of attachment
• The learning theory of attachment
• Bowlby’s theory of attachment
• Ainsworth’s ‘strange situation’
• Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation
• The effects of institutionalisation

Psychopathology:

• Definitions of abnormality
• Phobias - definition and clinical characteristics, the behavioural explanation, behavioural treatments
• Depression - definition and clinical characteristics, the cognitive explanation, cognitive treatments
• OCD - definition and clinical characteristics, the biological explanation, biological treatments

These knowledge organisers cover all key case studies in detail.

I would recommend printing these knowledge organisers on A3 or A2 paper.