Questions marked the way the papers mark them
Research methods: scientific processes
- Aims and hypotheses5 questions
- Variables and operationalisation5 questions
- Populations, samples and sampling techniques5 questions
- Experimental designs6 questions, 1 extended
- Control: random allocation, counterbalancing and standardisation5 questions, 1 extended
- Demand characteristics, investigator effects and pilot studies6 questions, 1 extended
- Ethical issues and the BPS code5 questions
- Designing observations: behavioural categories and sampling5 questions
- Designing questionnaires and interviews5 questions
- Reliability and how to improve it5 questions
- Types of validity and how to improve them5 questions
- Features of science5 questions, 1 extended
- Peer review, the economy and reporting research5 questions
Research methods: types of investigation
Research methods: data, statistics and inferential tests
- Quantitative and qualitative, primary and secondary data6 questions
- Descriptive statistics6 questions
- Graphs and tables5 questions
- Distributions and correlation coefficients6 questions
- Levels of measurement5 questions
- The sign test6 questions · Free
- Probability, significance and Type I and II errors5 questions
- Choosing an inferential test5 questions
Approaches in psychology
- The behaviourist approach: classical and operant conditioning5 questions
- Social learning theory5 questions
- The cognitive approach6 questions, 1 extended
- The biological approach5 questions
- The psychodynamic approach5 questions, 1 extended
- Humanistic psychology5 questions, 1 extended
- Comparing the approaches5 questions, 2 extended
Social influence
- Types of conformity and why people conform6 questions, 1 extended · Free
- Asch's research and the variables affecting conformity7 questions
- Explaining obedience: agentic state and legitimate authority6 questions, 2 extended
- Milgram's situational variables and the authoritarian personality7 questions, 1 extended
- Resistance to social influence6 questions
- Minority influence6 questions, 1 extended
Memory
Attachment
- Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow5 questions, 1 extended
- Learning theory and Bowlby's monotropic theory5 questions, 1 extended
- The Strange Situation and cultural variation8 questions, 1 extended
- Maternal deprivation and institutionalisation5 questions, 1 extended
- Early attachment and later relationships5 questions, 1 extended
Clinical psychology and mental health
- Definitions of mental health and disorder5 questions, 1 extended
- Characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD5 questions
- Phobias: the two-process model and behavioural therapies6 questions, 1 extended
- Depression: Beck, Ellis and CBT6 questions, 1 extended
- OCD: genetic and neural explanations and drug therapy6 questions, 1 extended
Biopsychology
- The divisions of the nervous system5 questions
- Neurons and synaptic transmission6 questions
- The endocrine system and the fight-or-flight response5 questions, 1 extended
- Ways of studying the brain7 questions, 1 extended
- Localisation, lateralisation and split-brain research6 questions, 1 extended
- Plasticity and functional recovery after trauma5 questions, 1 extended
Issues and debates
- Gender and cultural bias9 questions, 1 extended
- Free will and determinism6 questions, 2 extended
- The nature-nurture debate6 questions, 2 extended
- Holism and reductionism6 questions, 2 extended
- Idiographic and nomothetic approaches6 questions, 2 extended
- Ethical implications and socially sensitive research6 questions, 2 extended
Relationships (option)
- Factors affecting attraction7 questions, 2 extended
- Social exchange, equity and investment theories6 questions, 2 extended
- Duck's phase model of relationship breakdown6 questions, 1 extended
- Virtual relationships in social media6 questions, 1 extended
- Parasocial relationships6 questions, 2 extended · Free
Schizophrenia (option)
- Classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia6 questions, 1 extended
- Biological explanations of schizophrenia6 questions, 1 extended
- Psychological explanations of schizophrenia6 questions, 2 extended
- Drug therapy for schizophrenia6 questions, 1 extended
- CBT and family therapy for schizophrenia6 questions, 2 extended
- The interactionist approach to schizophrenia6 questions, 2 extended
Aggression (option)
- Neural, hormonal and genetic factors in aggression6 questions, 1 extended
- Ethological and evolutionary explanations of aggression6 questions, 2 extended
- Social psychological explanations of aggression6 questions, 2 extended
- Institutional aggression in prisons6 questions, 2 extended
- Media influences on aggression6 questions, 1 extended