Roadmap
Paper 1 - Foundations in psychology
Social psychology
1.1.1 - Agency and social impact theories
1.1.2 - Milgram and situational dissent
1.1.3, 1.1.6, 1.1.7 - Obedience, personality and culture
1.1.4 - Social identity and realistic conflict
1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7 - Prejudice and discrimination
1.3.1 - Sherif’s Robbers Cave study
1.3.2 - Burger’s partial replication
1.4.1, 1.4.2 - Reducing prejudice in society
1.5.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7 - Social questionnaire investigation
1.6 - Issues in social psychology
Cognitive psychology
2.1.1 - The working memory model
2.1.2 - The multi-store model
2.1.3 - Episodic and semantic memory
2.1.4, 2.1.5 - Reconstructive memory and schemas
2.1.6, 2.3.4 - Digit span across development
2.3.1 - Baddeley’s acoustic and semantic study
2.2.13 - Henry Molaison and memory evidence
2.4.1, 2.4.2 - Memory support for dementia
2.5.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, 2.2.10, 2.2.11, 2.2.12 - Cognitive laboratory investigation
2.6 - Issues in cognitive psychology
Biological psychology
3.1.1 - Neurons and synaptic transmission
3.1.2 - Recreational drugs at the synapse
3.1.3, 3.1.7 - Brain structure and aggression
3.1.4, 3.1.6, 3.1.8 - Evolution, hormones and aggression
3.1.5, 3.1.7 - Freud and biological explanations
3.2.3 - Brain scans, twins and adoption
3.3.1 - Raine’s PET study
3.3.3 - Brendgen’s twin study
3.4.1, 3.4.2 - Aggression and social responsibility
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3.5.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2 - Biological correlation investigation
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3.6 - Issues in biological psychology
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Learning theories
4.1.1, 4.1.2 - Classical conditioning and Pavlov
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4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 - Operant conditioning and shaping
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4.1.6, 4.1.7, 4.1.8 - Social learning and Bobo dolls
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4.1.9, 4.1.12, 4.1.13 - Vicarious reinforcement and development
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4.1.10 - How phobias develop and persist
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4.1.11, 4.3.4 - Phobia treatments and Capafóns
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4.3.1 - Watson and Rayner’s Little Albert
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4.2.2, 4.2.4 - Animal research and scientific learning
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4.4.1, 4.4.2 - Fear-of-flying programmes
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4.5.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.3 - Learned-behaviour observation
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4.6 - Issues in learning theories
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Paper 2 - Applications of psychology
Clinical psychology
5.1.1 - Defining mental disorder
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5.1.2, 5.1.5 - Classification and diagnosis
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5.1.3 - Schizophrenia symptoms
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5.1.3, 5.1.6 - Biological accounts of schizophrenia
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5.1.3, 5.1.5 - Non-biological schizophrenia account
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5.1.4 - Schizophrenia treatments
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5.1.3 - Unipolar depression explanations
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5.1.4 - Treatments for unipolar depression
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5.3.1 - Rosenhan’s diagnostic study
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5.3.2 - Carlsson’s network review
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5.3.3 - Kroenke’s PHQ-8 study
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5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5 - Clinical research and practice
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5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.5.1 - Mental-health reporting investigation
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5.6 - Issues in clinical psychology
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Criminological psychology
6.1.1, 6.1.9, 6.1.10 - Biological explanations of crime
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6.1.2, 6.1.9, 6.1.10 - Social explanations of crime
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6.1.3, 6.1.4 - Cognitive interviewing and formulation
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6.1.5, 6.3.4 - Anger management and Howells
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6.1.6 - Diet as offender treatment
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6.1.7, 6.3.1 - Eyewitness memory and Loftus
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6.1.8 - Jury decision-making
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6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5 - Methods in criminological research
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6.4.1, 6.4.2 - Can eyewitness testimony be trusted?
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6.5.1 - Criminological practical investigation
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6.6 - Issues in criminological psychology
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Child psychology
7.1.1 - Bowlby’s attachment theory
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7.1.2, 7.1.8 - Ainsworth and attachment types
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7.1.3, 7.1.9 - Deprivation and separation
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7.1.4, 7.1.9 - Privation and recovery
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7.1.5, 7.1.8, 7.1.9 - Day care and child development
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7.1.6, 7.3.1 - Cross-cultural attachment meta-analysis
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7.1.7, 7.1.9 - Autism explanations and support
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7.3.4 - Li’s child-care timing study
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7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5 - Researching children ethically
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7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.5.1 - Day-care decisions and investigation
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7.6 - Issues in child psychology
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Health psychology
8.1.1 - Addiction, dependence and withdrawal
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8.1.2 - Biological addiction explanations
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8.1.3, 8.1.6, 8.1.7 - Learning and individual addiction risk
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8.1.4 - Alcohol addiction treatments
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8.1.4 - Heroin and nicotine treatments
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8.1.5 - Anti-drug campaign strategies
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8.3.1 - Olds and Milner’s reinforcement study
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8.3.2 - Mundt’s adolescent alcohol study
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8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4 - Methods in drug research
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8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.5.1 - Smoking cessation and investigation
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8.6 - Issues in health psychology
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Across all papers - Psychological skills
Research design and evidence
9.1.1, 9.1.4, 1.2.3, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, D.1.15, D.1.16 - Data, aims and hypotheses
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9.1.2, 1.2.4, 6.2.2, D.1.5 - Sampling and generalisation
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9.1.3, 9.1.6, 9.1.9, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.10 - Experiments, designs and controls
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9.1.5, 1.2.1, 1.2.2 - Questionnaires and interviews
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9.1.7, 9.1.8, 4.2.1, 7.2.1 - Observation and content analysis
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9.1.8, 3.2.1, 3.2.3, 5.2.2, 7.2.3, 8.2.3 - Correlations and comparative designs
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9.1.8, 2.2.13, 5.2.3, 5.2.4 - Case studies and biological methods
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9.1.12, 2.2.9, 4.2.4, 6.2.3 - Reliability, validity and credibility
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9.1.15, 9.1.16, 1.2.7, 4.2.2 - Human and animal research ethics
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9.1.13, 9.1.14, 1.2.6 - Qualitative analysis and research reports
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Data and statistical decisions
9.1.10, 1.2.5, 2.2.11, D.0.1, D.0.2, D.0.3, D.1.1, D.1.2, D.1.6, D.1.9 - Describing and checking data
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9.1.10, 1.2.5, 2.2.11, D.1.6, D.1.11, D.1.14 - Spread and distributions
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9.1.10, 2.2.11, 3.2.1, D.1.3, D.1.7, D.3.1, D.3.2 - Tables, charts and correlations
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9.1.11, 2.2.12, 3.2.2, 4.2.3, D.1.4, D.1.10, D.1.12, D.1.13, D.2.1 - Choosing tests and significance
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9.1.11, 2.2.12, D.1.8, D.1.13, D.2.2 - Mann–Whitney U decisions
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9.1.11, 2.2.12, D.1.8, D.1.13, D.2.2 - Wilcoxon signed-rank decisions
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9.1.11, 3.2.2, D.1.8, D.1.13, D.2.2 - Spearman’s rank decisions
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9.1.11, 4.2.3, D.1.8, D.1.13, D.2.2, D.2.3 - Chi-squared decisions
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Paper 3 - Psychological skills
Synoptic studies and debates
9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3 - Comparing classic and unseen studies
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9.3.1, 9.3.2 - Ethical and practical research issues
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9.3.3, 9.3.4 - Reductionism and competing explanations
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9.3.5 - Is psychology a science?
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9.3.6 - Culture and gender in research
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9.3.7 - Nature and nurture
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9.3.8 - How psychological knowledge changes
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9.3.9, 9.3.10, 9.3.11 - Social control and sensitive knowledge
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