Edexcel (GCSE Psychology) Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers

This document includes a knowledge organiser for research methods,criminal psychology and sleeping and dreaming. Below is a list of what is included in each knowledge organiser:
Research methods:

• Key terms and definitions
• Types of experiments with evaluation
• Types of observations with evaluation
• Self-reports with evaluation
• Correlations with evaluation
• Experimental designs with evaluation
• Sampling techniques with evaluation
• Ethical issues and ways of dealing with them
• Types of data with evaluation
• Descriptive statistics with evaluation
• Displaying quantitative data

Criminal psychology:

• A list of required content
• Key terms and definitions
• Learning theories
• Biological explanations
• Understanding the effects of punishment on recidivism
• Rehabilitation
• Two key studies

Sleeping and dreaming:

• A list of required content
• Key terms and definitions
• Freud’s Theory of Dreaming
• Hobson and McCarley’s Activation Synthesis with evaluation
• Two key studies