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Detailed revision notes for the following topics: schizophrenia, forensics, gender, issues and debates, research methods, memory, psychopathology, biopsychology, attachment, approaches, and social influence. :)

This document covers the Schizophrenia topic in A level Psychology: diagnosis and classification, biological explanations, biological treatment, family dysfunction, cognitive explanation, psychological treatments, management of schizophrenia, and the interactionist approach. :)

This document is an overview of the Research Methods topic in A level Psychology, with outlines and evaluation points: BPS, ethical issues, consent and debrief, cost/benefit analysis, aim, experimental method, hypothesis, IV and DV, sampling method, extraneous variables, standardisation, experimental design, reliability, observation and self-report methods, validity, levels of measurement, inferential statistics, displays, types of data collections, descriptive statistics (measure of central te...

This document covers the Psychopathology topic in A level Psychology: definitions of abnormality, characteristics of mental disorders, behavioural approach to phobias, cognitive approach to depression, and biological approach to OCD. :)

This document covers the Memory topic in A level Psychology: multi-store model, working memory model, types of long term memory, interference, retrieval failure, memory in everyday life, misleading information on eyewitness testimony, and the cognitive interview. :)

This covers the Issues and debates topic in A level psychology: gender bias, cultural bias, free will vs determinism, nature vs nurture, holism vs reductionism, idiographic vs nomothetic, and ethical implications. :)

This document covers the Gender topic in A level psychology: sex, gender and BSRI; biological explanation; atypical sex chromosomes; Kohlberg cognitive explanation; gender schema cognitive explanation; psychodynamic explanation; social learning theory; culture and media; and atypical gender development. :)

This document covers the Forensics topic in A level psychology: top-down profiling, bottom-up profiling, historical biological explanation, biological explanation, Eysenck personality explanation, cognitive explanation, differential association, psychodynamic explanation, custodial sentencing, token economy, anger management, and restorative justice. :)

This document covers the Biopsychology topic in A level psychology: biopsych intro, localisation of function, lateralisation of function, plasticity, functional recovery, circadian rhythms, ultradian and infradian rhythms, ways of studying the brain, synaptic transmission, fight/flight, and the endocrine system. :)

This document covers the Attachment topic in A level psychology: caregiver-infant interactions, Schaffer and Emerson, role of the father, animal studies (Harlow and Lorenz), learning theory, Bowlby, Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation, Ainsworth's strange situation, and cultural variations.