Issues & Debates Approaches - Edexcel A Level Psychology

This is a revision guide for Issues & Debates (Approaches), suitable for Paper 3, which follows the Edexcel A Level Psychology Specification (2015).

These notes have been used by numerous students to support them with revision and include bullet pointed notes for each Issue & Debate based on the 5 required approaches (Social, Cognitive, Biological, Learning, Clinical).

Issues & Debates include:

• Ethics
• Practical Issues in Design & Implementation
• Reductionism
• Comparisons using different themes
• Psychology as a science
• Culture / Gender Issues
• Nature-nurture
• How psychological knowledge has changed over time
• Issues of Social Control
• Use of Psychological knowledge in society
• Socially Sensitive Research

I hope I can support you and your students during their A Level studies with a visually pleasing revision guide and I wish you all the best of luck.