A Level Psychology Knowledge Organisers (P1)
<p>These knowledge organisers cover all content and evaluation points for AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1, to include the following topics:</p>
<p>Memory:</p>
<ul>
<li>Atkinson & Shiffrin’s (1968) multi-store model</li>
<li>Research into STM and LTM</li>
<li>Baddeley & Hitch’s (1974) working memory model</li>
<li>Types of LTM</li>
<li>Explanations for forgetting - interference and retrieval failure</li>
<li>Factors affecting the accuracy of EWT - misleading information and anxiety</li>
<li>The cognitive interview</li>
</ul>
<p>Social Influence:</p>
<ul>
<li>Types of and explanations for conformity</li>
<li>Variables affecting conformity</li>
<li>Conformity to social roles</li>
<li>Explanations for obedience - the agentic state, legitimacy of authority and the authoritarian personality</li>
<li>Minority influence</li>
<li>Explanations for resistance to social influence - social support and locus of control</li>
<li>Social change</li>
</ul>
<p>Attachment:</p>
<ul>
<li>Caregiver-infant interaction</li>
<li>Stages of attachment</li>
<li>The role of the father</li>
<li>Animal studies of attachment</li>
<li>The learning theory of attachment</li>
<li>Bowlby’s theory of attachment</li>
<li>Ainsworth’s ‘strange situation’</li>
<li>Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation</li>
<li>The effects of institutionalisation</li>
</ul>
<p>Psychopathology:</p>
<ul>
<li>Definitions of abnormality</li>
<li>Phobias - definition and clinical characteristics, the behavioural explanation, behavioural treatments</li>
<li>Depression - definition and clinical characteristics, the cognitive explanation, cognitive treatments</li>
<li>OCD - definition and clinical characteristics, the biological explanation, biological treatments</li>
</ul>
<p>These knowledge organisers cover all key case studies in detail.</p>
<p>I would recommend printing these knowledge organisers on A3 or A2 paper.</p>