Social and Cognitive Psychology for AS level Edexcel Notes: Chapters included: Agency Theory Obedience - Milgram 1963 Situational factors Bibb Latane 1981 Muzafer Sherif 1954 Tajafel and Turner 1979 Methods: types of questions, questionnaires, sampling, reliability, validity, interviews, hypothesisis, measures of central tendency, distributions, measures of dispersion, graphical representation of data & thematic analysis.  Burger 2009 Yi Huang et Al 2014  Conformity Deustch and Gerard 1955 Arthur Jenness 1932 Solomon Asch 1955 Zimbardo  Moscovici and minority influence Moscovici et al 1969 - Blue green study The BPS code of Ethics The multi-store model of memory (Attinkson and Shiffrin 1968) Working memory model (Baddely and Hitch 1974) Episodic and Semantic memory (Tulving 1972) Reconstructive memory (Bartlett 1932) Types of experiments: field, natural and lab Hypothesis Variables Inferential tests of difference HM  Qualitative data Influence of acoustic and sematic similarity on long term memory (Baddely 1966b) Semantic knowledge in patient HM & other patients with bilateral medial & lateral temporal lobe lesions (Schmolck et al. 2002) Contemporary study (option 1) - Darling et al. (2007) Behavioural evidence for separating components within visuo-spatial working memory. both practicals for social and cognitive theories

**Chapters included: (why am I charging the price!!) 3.1.1 The role of the central nervous system (CNS) & neurotransmitters in human behaviour, including the structure & role of the neuron, the function of neurotransmitters & synaptic transmission. The effect of recreational drugs on the transmission process in the central nervous system 3.1.2 The structure of the brain, different brain areas including the pre-frontal cortex & limbic system & brain functioning as an explanation of aggression as a human behaviour. THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF AGGRESSION - AGGRESSION IN THE BRAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF HORMONES THEORIES OF AGGRESSION EXPLAINING AGGRESSION THROUGH EVOLUTION Biological Rhythms: Endogenous Pacemakers & Exogenous Zeitgebers SAD Scanning techniques WHY STUDY TWINS & ADOPTEES? TWIN STUDIES GOTTESMAN & SHIELDS (1966) - A TWIN STUDY: THE GENETIC CAUSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA THE DEBATE OVER GENETICS 3.3.1 Raine et al. (1997) Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography. 3.3.2 Brendgen et al. (2005) Examining genetic & environmental effects on social aggression: A study of 6-year-old twins. FREUD’S PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY - SECRETS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND DEFENCE MECHANISMS PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT INSTINCT THEORY OF AGGRESSION WHAT IS SPEARMAN’S RHO? 3.3.3 McDermott (2008) Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioural aggression following provocation. Classical conditioning by Ivan Pavlov The main features of operant conditioning, including types of reinforcement (positive & negative) & punishment (positive & negative) & properties of reinforcement (primary, secondary & schedules) including researching Skinner (1948) Superstition in the pigeon. Freud’s psychosexual stages of development HOW CAN WE TREAT PHOBIAS? In Vivo vs In Vitro FLOODING - A BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR TREATING PHOBIAS SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION - A BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR TREATING PHOBIAS PAVLOV (1927) - SALIVATION REFLEX IN DOGS BANDURA (1961, 1963a, 1965) - THREE STUDIES INTO IMITATING AGGRESSION BANDURA (1977) - SOCIAL LEARNING EXPLAINS LEARNING BY OBSERVATION RESEARCH INTO SOCIAL LEARNING - The findings of studies BECKER ET AL. (2002) - THE CONTEMPORARY STUDY: TELEVISION & EATING DISORDERS IN FIJI WATSON & RAYNER (1928) - THE CLASSIC STUDY: LITTLE ALBERT WHAT IS THE CHI-SQUARED TEST? Capafons et al. (1998) Systematic desensitisation in the treatment of fear of flying Contemporary study Option 1 - Prot (2014) Long-term Relations Among Prosocial-Media use, Empathy, & Prosocial Behaviour and much more!!**** both practicals for biological and learning theories

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