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We understand the importance of education. We offer tailored private tuition designed to maximise success at GCSE, A Level and beyond. Our tutors are experienced professionals, teachers and top-tier graduates with extensive knowledge in their subjects.
On Tes we offer high quality board-specific resources. Please check back regularly as we are continually updating our stock.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Pilot studies and the aims of piloting.
Experimental designs: repeated measures, independent groups, matched pairs.
Observational design: behavioural categories; event sampling; time sampling.
Questionnaire construction, including use of open and closed questions; design of interviews.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Variables: manipulation and control of variables, including independent, dependent, extraneous, confounding; operationalisation of variables.
Control: random allocation and counterbalancing, randomisation and standardisation.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.2 - Data handling and analysis.
Calculation of percentages; positive, negative and zero correlations.
Distributions: normal and skewed distributions; characteristics of normal and skewed distributions.
Presentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar charts, histograms.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.
Reliability across all methods of investigation. Ways of assessing reliability: test-retest and inter-observer; improving reliability.
Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving validity.
Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.
The role of peer review in the scientific process.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.2 - Biopsychology.
Biological rhythms: circadian, infradian and ultradian and the difference between these rhythms.
The effect of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.3.1 - Issues and debates in psychology.
Gender and culture in psychology – universality and bias.
Gender bias including androcentrism and alpha and beta bias.
Cultural bias, including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.1.4 - Psychopathology.
The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression: Beck’s negative triad and Ellis’s ABC model; cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including challenging irrational thoughts.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.2 - Biopsychology.
Ways of studying the brain: scanning techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); electroencephalogram (EEGs) and event-related potentials (ERPs); postmortem examinations.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
The cognitive approach: the study of internal mental processes, the role of schema, the use of theoretical and computer models to explain and make inferences about mental processes.
The emergence of cognitive neuroscience.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
Social learning theory including imitation, identification, modelling, vicarious reinforcement, the role of mediational processes and Bandura’s research.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
The biological approach: the influence of genes, biological structures and neurochemistry on behaviour.
Genotype and phenotype, genetic basis of behaviour, evolution and behaviour.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.2 - Biopsychology.
The function of the endocrine system: glands and hormones.
The fight or flight response including the role of adrenaline.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.2 - Biopsychology.
The divisions of the nervous system: central and peripheral (somatic and autonomic).
The structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons.
The process of synaptic transmission, including reference to neurotransmitters, excitation and inhibition.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.1.3 - Attachment.
Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’.
Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure-resistant.
Cultural variations in attachment, including Van Ijzendoorn.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.1.4 - Psychopathology.
The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD: genetic and neural explanations; drug therapy.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.1.4 - Psychopathology.
The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias: the two-process model, including classical and operant conditioning; systematic desensitisation, including relaxation and use of hierarchy; flooding.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.1.3 - Attachment.
The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role of an internal working model.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.1.4 - Psychopathology.
Definitions of abnormality, including deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately, statistical infrequency and deviation from ideal mental health.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
The behaviourist approach, including classical conditioning and Pavlov’s research, operant conditioning, types of reinforcement and Skinner’s research.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.1.3 - Attachment.
Explanations of attachment: learning theory and Bowlby’s monotropic theory.
The concepts of a critical period and an internal working model.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
