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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.
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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 4.1.4 - 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 4.1.4 - Psychopathology.
The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD: genetic and neural explanations; drug therapy.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
Origins of psychology: Wundt, introspection and the emergence of psychology as a science.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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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 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 2.28 - Describe the use of litmus, phenolphthalein and methyl orange to distinguish between acidic and alkaline solutions.
Specification Point 2.29 - Understand how the pH scale can be used to classify solutions as strongly acidic, weakly acidic, neutral, weakly alkaline and strongly alkaline.
Specification Point 2.30 - Describe the use of universal indicator to measure the approximate pH value of an aqueous solution.
Specification Point 2.31 - Know that acids in aqueous solution are a source of hydrogen ions and alkalis in a aqueous solution are a source of hydroxide ions.
Specification Point 2.32 - Know that alkalis can neutralise acids.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lessons 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.
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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.
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Specification Point 1.29 - Calculate reacting masses using experimental data and chemical equations.
Specification Point 1.30 - Calculate percentage yield.
Specification Point 1.31 - Understand how the formulae of simple compounds can be obtained experimentally, including metal oxides, water and salts containing water of crystallisation.
Specification Point 1.32 - Know what is meant by the terms empirical formula and molecular formula.
Specification Point 1.33 - Calculate empirical and molecular formulae from experimental data.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 1.37 - Understand how ions are formed by electron loss or gain.
Specification Point 1.38 - Know the charges of several atomic and molecular ions.
Specification Point 1.39 - Write formulae for compounds formed between the ions listed in 1.38.
Specification Point 1.40 - Draw dot-and-cross diagrams to show the formation of ionic compounds by electron transfer, limited to combinations of elements from groups 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
Specification Point 1.41 - Understand ionic bonding in terms of electrostatic attractions.
Specification Point 1.42 - Understand why compounds with giant ionic lattices have high melting and boiling points.
Specification Point 1.43 - Know that ionic compounds do not conduct electricity when solid, but do conduct electricity when molten and in aqueous solution.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 2.34 - Know the general rules for predicting the solubility of ionic compounds in water.
Specification Point 2.35 - Understand acids and bases in terms of proton transfer.
Specification Point 2.36 - Understand that an acid is a proton donor and a base is a proton acceptor.
Specification Point 2.37 - Describe the reactions of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid with metals, bases and metal carbonates to form salts.
Specification Point 2.38 - Know that metal oxides, metal hydroxides and ammonia can act as bases, and that alkalis are bases that are soluble in water.
Specification Point 2.39 - Describe an experiment to prepare a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt, starting from an insoluble reactant.
Specification Point 2.42 - Practical: prepare a sample of pure, dry hydrated copper (II) sulphate crystals starting from copper (II) oxide.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 2.44 - Describe tests for these gases: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, ammonia and chlorine.
Specification Point 2.45 - Describe how to carry out a flame test.
Specification Point 2.46 - Know the colours formed in flame tests for the following cations: lithium, sodium, potassium, calcium and copper.
Specification Point 2.47 - Describe tests for these cations: ammonium using sodium hydroxide solution and identifying the gas evolved. Copper, iron (II) and iron (III) using sodium hydroxide solution.
Specification Point 2.48 - Describe tests for these anions: chloride, bromide and iodide using acidified silver nitrate solution. Sulphates using acidified barium chloride solution and carbonates using hydrochloric acid and identifying the gas evolved.
Specification Point 2.49 - Describe a test for the presence of water using anhydrous copper (II) sulphate.
Specification Point 2.50 - Describe a physical test to show whether a sample of water is pure.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 3.9 - Describe experiments to investigate the effects of changes in surface area of a solid, concentration of a solution, temperature and the use of a catalyst on the rate of a reaction.
Specification Point 3.10 - Describe the effects of changes in surface area of a solid, concentration of a solution, pressure of a gas, temperature and the use of a catalyst on the rate of a reaction.
Specification Point 3.11 - Explain the effects of changes in surface area of a solid, concentration of a solution, pressure of a gas and temperature on the rate of a reaction in terms of particle collision theory.
Specification Point 3.12 - Know that a catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a reaction, but is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction.
Specification Point 3.13 - Know that a catalyst works by providing an alternative pathway with lower activation energy.
Specification Point 3.15 - Practical: investigate the effect of changing the surface area of marble chips and of changing the concentration of hydrochloric acid on the rate of reaction between marble chips and dilute hydrochloric acid.
Specification Point 3.16 - Practical: investigate the effect of different solids on the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide solution.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 4.19 - Know the general formula for alkanes.
Specification Point 4.20 - Explain why alkanes are classified as saturated hydrocarbons.
Specification Point 4.21 - Understand how to draw the structural and displayed formulae for alkanes with up to five carbon atoms in the molecule, and to name the unbranched-chain isomers.
Specification Point 4.22 - Describe the reactions of alkanes with halogens in the presence of ultraviolet radiation, limited to mono-substitution.
Specification Point 4.23 - Know that alkenes contain a particular functional group (C=C).
Specification Point 4.24 - Know the general formula for alkenes.
Specification Point 4.25 - Explain why alkenes are classified as unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Specification Point 4.26 - Understand how to draw the structural and displayed formulae for alkenes with up to four carbon atoms in the molecule, and name the unbranched-chain isomers.
Specification Point 4.27 -Describe the reactions of alkenes with bromine to produce dibromoalkanes.
Specification Point 4.28 - Describe how bromine water can be used to distinguish between an alkane and an alkene.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lessons 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.
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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.
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Specification Point 3.1.2 - Memory.
Explanations for forgetting: proactive and retroactive interference and retrieval failure due to absence of cues.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.1.2 - Memory.
The multi-store model of memory: sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory.
Features of each store: coding, capacity and duration.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.1.2 - Memory.
The working memory model: central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad and episodic buffer.
Features of the model: coding and capacity.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
