A-Level and Degree Psychology
This website has been designed for specifically for A-level AQA psychology students.
However, psychology bachelor degree students will also find it useful.
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This website will undergo extensive redevelopment after the May AS & A2 psychology exams to incorporate topics studied under the new AQA specifications. It will also include bachelor degree topic areas.
Cognitive Approach in Psychology
The cognitive approach is one of the 5 main perspectives in psychology.
The approach became popular in the 1950s and 1960s when information processing approach used the computer as a metaphor for the workings of the mind.
There has also been considerable cognitive research in the area of human experimental psychology. Most notably memory, attention and perception.
Abnormal Psychology
Behaviour Therapy assmes that all behaviour is learnt (inlcuding abnormal) and can also be unlearnt through therapy.
Freud's Psychoanalysis believes that abnormal behaviour is rooted in unconscious drives and feeeling affected from a person's childhood.
The Medical Model states that abnormal behaviour has a physical cause. For example, neurotransmitters, the brain and genetics.
Client Centred Therapy is based on the ideas of Carl Rogers.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy attempts to change the way a person thinks in orders to change their behaviour.
Approaches In Psychology
Studies In Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Research Methods
Historical Figures In Psychology
- Mary Ainsworth
- Albert Bandura
- John Bowlby
- Jerome Bruner
- Charles Darwin
- Erik Erikson
- Sigmund Freud
- Abraham Maslow
- Ivan Pavlov
- Jean Piaget
- Carl Rogers
- B.F. Skinner
- John Watson
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Lev Vygotsky
Social Psychology
- Conformity
- Obedience
- Social Roles
- Minority Influence
- Self Concept
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Attitudes
- Attitude Measurement
- Prejudice
- Stereotypes
Cognitive Psychology
- Memory Psychology
- Memory Improvement
- Multi-Store Model
- Working Memory
- Levels of Processing
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Forgetting
- Perception
- Information Processing
- Selective Attention
- Optical Illusions