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Specification Point 4.3.1 - Issues and debates in psychology.
Holism and reductionism: levels of explanation in psychology.
Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.3.1 - Issues and debates in psychology.
Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism.
The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.
Complete set of Chapter 8 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.
The complete AQA AS Level Psychology course from start to finsh. Huge bundle of resources with every topic covered.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA AS Level Psychology (7181) Chapters 1 - 7. Contains colour coded specification points with handmade vector graphics. Forty one presentations included:
1 - Conformity
2 - Conformity to Social Roles
3 - Obedience
4 - Resistance and Minority Influence
5 - Types of Memory
6 - Memory Models
7 - Forgetting
8 - Eyewitness Testimony
9 - Attachment
10 - Animal Studies on Attachment
11 - Explanations of Attachment
12 - The Strange Situation
13 - Disruption of Attachment
14 - Institutionalisation
15 - Early Attachment
16 - Abnormality
17 - Depression, Phobias and OCD
18 - The Behavioural Approach to Phobias
19 - The Cognitive Approach to Depression
20 - The Biological Approach to OCD
21 - The Origins of Psychology
22 - The Behaviourist Approach
23 - Social Learning Theory
24 - The Cognitive Approach
25 - The Biological Approach
26 - The Psychodynamic Approach
27 - Humanistic Psychology
28 - The Nervous System
29 - The Endocrine System
30 - The Brain
31 - Studying the Brain
32 - Biological Rhythms
33 - Research Methods
34 - Scientific Processes
35 - Designing Experiments
36 - Variables and Controls
37 - Ethics in Psychology
38 - Creating and Publishing Research
39 - Data Handling
40 - Presenting Data
41 - Inferential Statistics
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A Level Psychology (7181 and 7182) Chapter 7 - Research Methods. Contains colour coded specification points. Nine presentations included:
33 - Research Methods
34 - Scientific Processes
35 - Designing Experiments
36 - Variables and Controls
37 - Ethics in Psychology
38 - Creating and Publishing Research
39 - Data Handling
40 - Presenting Data
41 - Inferential Statistics
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Specification Point 4.2.3.3 - Inferential Testing.
Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test. When to use the sign test; calculation of the sign test.
Probability and significance: use of statistical tables and critical values in interpretation of significance; Type I and Type II errors.
Factors affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement and experimental design.
When to use the following tests: Spearman’s rho, Pearson’s r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.
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.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.2 - Data handling and analysis.
Quantitative and qualitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques.
Primary and secondary data, including meta-analysis.
Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency – mean, median, mode; calculation of mean, median and mode; measures of dispersion; range and standard deviation; calculation of range.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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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 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Demand characteristics and investigator effects.
Ethics, including the role of the British Psychological Society’s code of ethics; ethical issues in the design and conduct of psychological studies; dealing with ethical issues in research.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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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.
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.
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Specification Point 4.2.3.1 - Scientific Processes.
Aims: stating aims, the difference between aims and hypotheses.
Hypotheses: directional and non-directional.
Sampling: the difference between population and sample; sampling techniques including: random, systematic, stratified, opportunity and volunteer; implications of sampling techniques, including bias and generalisation.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.3 - Research Methods.
Experimental method. Types of experiment, laboratory and field experiments; natural and quasi-experiments.
Observational techniques. Types of observation: naturalistic and controlled observation; covert and overt observation; participant and non-participant observation.
Self-report techniques. Questionnaires; interviews, structured and unstructured.
Content analysis.
Case studies.
Correlations. Analysis of the relationship between co-variables. The difference between correlations and experiments.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A Level Psychology (7181 and 7182) Chapter 6 - Biopsychology. Contains colour coded specification points. Five presentations included:
28 - The Nervous System
29 - The Endocrine System
30 - The Brain
31 - Studying the Brain
32 - Biological Rhythms
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
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.
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 4.2.2 - 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.
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Specification Point 4.2.2 - Biopsychology.
Localisation of function in the brain and hemispheric lateralisation: motor, somatosensory, visual, auditory and language centres; Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, split brain research.
Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain after trauma.
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.
