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Summary key questions for psychology edexcel

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Unit 9 - Psychological skills

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The key questions that I used were: Cognitive Are eyewitness testimonies always accurate? Social How can social psychology explain football violence and what does it suggest we can do to reduce it? Biological Are violent criminals responsible for their crimes? Learning Should airline comp...

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Key questions:

Approach State Describe Explain/apply

Eyewitness testimonies are first
 MSM: paying attention is needed for information to be retained and also maintenance
hand accounts from people that
Are eyewitness rehearsal
have witnessed a crime being
Cognitive testimonies always  Schemas: may have inaccuracy due to the use of past experiences to influence recall
committed. These are used often
accurate?  WMM: may be difficult to remember as there was a lot of inputs to the working
in courts to determine if
memory overloading it
someone is guilty
Football hooliganism is a type of  Agency theory: a member of the crowd could become an authority figure and promote
How can social
anti-social behaviour which violence with others acting in the agentic state
psychology explain
involves opposing football teams  This could be reduced by having police officers present who will also be authority
football violence
Social fans being violent or aggressive figures
and what does it
towards one another. It is  Realistic conflict theory: there is competition as one team will win and the other will
suggest we can do
important to stop people from lose
to reduce it?
getting injured at games  Try to find a subordinate goal for the fans to prevent antisocial behaviour
The number of violent crimes
Are violent was above 1.77 million in 2021. 
Hormones: high testosterone correlates to high aggression levels
criminals Justice is important for victims'  Brain: damage to frontal lobe can cause aggression
Biological
responsible for families and criminals are likely  Raine: research found that NGRI prisoners had a different brain makeup than “ordinary
their crimes? to repeat if not punished people”
(recidivism)
Should airline
companies offer 1 in 6 people have a fear of flying  Social learning theory: parents with a fear of flying will pass on to their children
treatment . People will experience fear of;  Systematic desensitisation: could offer to passengers which creates a hierarchy of
Learning
programmes to heights, crashing & not being in fears for them to overcome
passengers with a control  Classical conditioning: they may associate flying with something negative
fear of flying?
Should schools be 1 in 4 of 17–19-year-olds have a  Depression typically occurs in young adulthood (16-24) —> school age
doing more to mental health disorder in the UK  Feedback links to cognitive explanation—> negative triad depression
tackle mental (up from 1 in 6 in both 2021 &  Maladaptive attribution—> support isn’t given as positive feedback but as negative
Clinical
health disorders & 2020). Only 1 in 4 of these  Neurotransmitters & genetics—> their isn’t determined by schools
what could this sufferers are accessing support  CBT sessions can be done within schools with trained psychologists and counsellors
involve? for their mental health  Social class explanation is not impacted by schools
China, Ethiopia, India, Ukraine
Is international  ERA (longitudinal study)—> Romania to UK adoption found even though the adoption
and Vietnam are the main
Child adoption good for process was successful, the children experienced ongoing problems (1/3 of the
countries for international
children? children experienced problems)
adoption

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