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