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Hi! These are my A-Level notes, essays and resources I used to sit the 2018 summer exams, in AQA Psychology, AQA Economics and AQA English Literature (achieving A*A*A). Hope you find these useful.
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Hi! These are my A-Level notes, essays and resources I used to sit the 2018 summer exams, in AQA Psychology, AQA Economics and AQA English Literature (achieving A*A*A). Hope you find these useful.
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AQA A-Level Psychology - Cognition and Development Exam Practice A* Exemplar Essays
AQA Psychology A-level: Cognition and Development
From specification 7181, 7182 - Issues and options in Psychology - paper 3 (I achieved an A* in Psychology A-level in 2018, across all three papers. I prioritised revision on evaluation, necessary for accessing higher grade!)
Here are my exam practice questions
Includes:
Outline and evaluate Piaget’s theory of cognitive development (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate Piaget’s stages of cognitive development (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development (16 marks)
Discuss Baillargeon’s research into early infant abilities (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate Selman’s stages of perspective-taking (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate research into Theory of Mind (16 marks)
Discuss research into the role of the mirror neuron system in social cognition (16 marks)
AQA A-Level Psychology - Social Influence A* Exam Practice Exemplar Essays
AQA Psychology A-level: Social Influence
From specification 7181, 7182 - paper 1 (I achieved an A* in Psychology A-level in 2018, across all three papers. I prioritised revision on evaluation, necessary for accessing higher grade!)
These are my exam practice questions
Includes:
Outline and evaluate explanations for conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Asch into conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Zimbardo into conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Milgram into obedience (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate the situational factors affecting obedience (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate legitimacy of authority and the agentic state (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate Adorno’s authoritarian personality (16 marks)
Discuss social support as an explanation for the resistance to social influence (8 marks)
Outline and evaluate Rotter’s LOC as an explanation for resistance to social influence (16 marks)
Discuss research into minority influence and its implications on resistance of social influence (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate social change and its implications on resistance to social influence (16 marks)
AQA A-Level Psychology - Eating Behaviour Exam Practice A* Exemplar Essays
AQA Psychology A-level: Eating Behaviour
From specification 7181, 7182 - Issues and options in Psychology - paper 3 (I achieved an A* in Psychology A-level in 2018, across all three papers. I prioritised revision on evaluation, necessary for accessing higher grade!)
Here are my exam practice questions
Includes:
Outline and evaluate evolutionary explanations for food preferences (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate the role of learning in food preferences (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate neural and hormonal explanations for food preferences (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanation for anorexia nervosa (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate one psychological explanation for anorexia nervosa (16 marks)
Discuss social learning theory as an explanation for anorexia nervosa (16 marks)
Discuss cognitive theory as an explanation for anorexia nervosa (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanation for obesity (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate one or more psychological explanation for obesity (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate explanations for the success or failure of dieting 16 marks)
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AQA Psychology A-Level: Social Influence Bundle (A* Notes and Exemplar Essays)
AQA Psychology A-level: Social Influence
From specification 7181, 7182 - Paper 1: Introductory topics in Psychology (I achieved an A* in Psycholology A-level in 2018, across all three papers)
Includes a lot of evaluation! - AO3 needed for high marks!
**NOTES: **
Types of conformity - compliance, identification and internalisation
Explanations for conformity - normative and informational social influence
Factors affecting conformity - group size, unanimity, task difficulty and relevant studies
Evaluation of conformity (A03)
Conformity to social roles - Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment and evaluation
Explanations for obedience - Agentic state and legitimacy of authority
Situational variables: proximity, location and uniform
Dispositional explanations - the Authoritarian personality and evaluation
Resistance to social influence and social change
Explanations for resistance - locus of control, social support and evaluation
Role of minority influence - commitment, consistency and flexibility principles and evaluation
Role of social influence in social change, Civil Rights, snowballing effect**
EXAM QUESTIONS:
Outline and evaluate explanations for conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Asch into conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Zimbardo into conformity (16 marks)
Discuss research by Milgram into obedience (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate the situational factors affecting obedience (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate legitimacy of authority and the agentic state (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate Adorno’s authoritarian personality (16 marks)
Discuss social support as an explanation for the resistance to social influence (8 marks)
Outline and evaluate Rotter’s LOC as an explanation for resistance to social influence (16 marks)
Discuss research into minority influence and its implications on resistance of social influence (16 marks)
Outline and evaluate social change and its implications on resistance to social influence (16 marks)
AQA A-Level Psychology: Issues and Debates (A* Notes)
AQA Psychology A-level: Issues and Debates
From specification 7181, 7182 - Issues and options in Psychology - paper 3 (I achieved an A* in Psychology A-level in 2018, across all three papers. I prioritised revision on evaluation, necessary for accessing higher grade!)
Includes:
Gender and Culture Bias
Free Will and Determinism
Nature-Nurture Debate
Holism and Reductionism
Idiographic and Nomothetic Approach
Ethical Implications of Research
Supply and demand in competitive markets
AQA Economics A-level (specification 7135, 7136)
Includes:
Theory of Demand - downward slope curve, exceptions to law of demand
Price elasticity of demand and determinants
Income elasticity of demand and determinants
Cross elasticity of demand and determinants
Theory of Supply
Price elasticity of supply and determinants
Market equilibrium and disequilibrium
Economics A-level: Market mechanism, market failure and government intervention
AQA Economics A-level (specification 7135, 7136)
Includes:
Types of goods; public, quasi-public and private
Allocation of resources - price mechanism; rationing, signaling, incentive, allocative functions
Market failure - examples and eliminating failures
Merit and demerit goods
Positive and negative externalities in production and consumption
Imperfect and asymmetric information
Monopoly power
Immobility of factors of production
Government intervention - arguments for and against
Methods of intervention; indirect taxes, subsidies, minimum/maximum price, regulation
Cont. information provision, pollution permits etc.
Supply-side intervention - free market vs interventionist policies (and evaluation)
Government failure; causes, examples, overcoming government failure
Competition policy; monopolies, mergers, public ownership
Privatisation and evaluation
Regulation and deregulation
AQA Economics A-level: International Economy
AQA Economics A-level: International Economy, specification 7135, 7136
I achieved an A in Economics A-level in 2018, across all three papers. These notes helped form an understanding of economic theory and a critical evaluation of it*
Globalisation: characteristics and causes of globalisation
Role of MNCs - benefits and drawbacks (evaluation)
Costs and benefits of globalisation (evaluation)
Trade: static vs dynamic gains, changing patterns of UK trade and World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Theory of competitive advantage, assumption, sources, absolute advantage
Specialisation and division of labour
Trade in developing countries - advantages and risks
UK membership of EU evaluation - arguments for and against
Policies to improve trade in the long run vs short run and supply side policies
Protectionism: graphs and evaluation of tariffs, quotas, export subsidies and dumping
Arguments against protectionism
The balance of payments and current account - components
Factors influencing current account deficit and balance of payment deficit
Impact of trade imbalances (evaluation)
Policies to reduce deficit - expenditure-reducing and expenditure-switching
Exchange rates - determinants, fluctuations, depreciations etc
Exchange rate equilibrium, excess demand vs excess supply
Effects of currency fluctuations on growth, inflation, employment etc.
Benefits and limitations of weaker currency
Evaluation of a devaluation - Marshall Lerner, J curve
Currency systems, free-floating, managed floating and fixed (and evaluation of each)
Global influence of currencies, brexit impact
Benefits and drawbacks of currency unions
Economic growth and development, indicators of development
Objectives of development, barriers to development
Private sector and development
Role of trade/aid in development