Edexcel A-Level Psychology Paper 2 - Criminal Psychology

This is a condense revision notes for Psychology Paper 2 - Section B.

This document includes:

• Social Explanation of Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) + Evaluation
  Labelling + Self-fulfilling Prophecy
  Social Learning Theory

• Biological Explanations of Crime + Evaluation + Issues and Debates
  Brain Injury
  Amygdala
  XYY Syndrome
  Personality

• Gender differences in explanations of Crime and ASB + Evaluation
  Amygdala
  Brain Injury
  Gender and XYY Syndrome
  Personality

• Understanding the offender - The cognitive interview + Evaluation + Issues and Debates

• Offence analysis + Evaluation

• Psyhological Formulations

• HCPC Guidelines

• Biological Treatment for Criminality - Drug + Evaluation + Issues and Debates

• Cognitive Treatment for Criminality: Anger Management Therapy + Evaluation

• Factors affecting EWT + Evaluation

• Loftus and Palmer - Classic study

• Key Question: ‘Is EWT too unreliable to trust?’ + Evaluation

• Factors affceting Jury Decision Making + Evaluation

• Pre-trial Publicity + Evaluation

• Bradbury and Williams - Contemporary study

• Criminal Practical

With these notes I was able to feel confident with the content for psychology and achieve great grades.

These notes are made form lessons and also the textbook:

Edexcel AS/A Level Psychology Student Book + ActiveBook: (Edexcel GCE Psychology 2015)
By Karren Smith (Author), Elizabeth Barkham (Author), Anna Cave (Author), Susan Harty (Author), Annabel Jervis (Author), James Bailey (Author), Esther O’Neill (Author)