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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.
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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
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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.
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 2.1 - Understand how the similarities in the reactions of the group 1 elements with water provide evidence for their recognition as a family of elements.
Specification Point 2.2 - Understand how the differences between the reactions of the alkali metals with air and water provide evidence for the trend in reactivity in group 1.
Specification Point 2.3 - Use knowledge of trends in group 1 to predict the properties of other alkali metals.
Specification Point 2.4C - Explain the trend in reactivity in group 1 in terms of electronic configurations.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lessons 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.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A Level Psychology (7181 and 7182) Chapter 5 - Approaches in Psychology. Contains colour coded specification points. Seven presentations included:
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
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Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
Humanistic psychology: free will, self-actualisation and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, focus on the self, congruence, the role of conditions of worth.
The influence on counselling psychology.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.2.1 - Approaches in psychology.
The psychodynamic approach: the role of the unconscious, the structure of personality, that is Id, Ego and Superego, defence mechanisms including repression, denial and displacement, psychosexual stages.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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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 4.2.1 - 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.