AQA A Level Psychology - ALL Core Content Essay Plans
Plans for all possible 16 markers, for example:
Discuss two explanations for conformity (16 marks)//Discuss what psychological research has told us about why people conform. (16 marks)
Discuss the legitimacy of authority and agentic state explanations of obedience. (16 marks)
Discuss the multi-store model of memory. (16 marks)
PAPER ONE AND TWO, AND THEN ISSUES AND DEBATES
This bundle has my ‘cheat sheets’ for all three Psychology HL papers. It includes: plans for ALL SAQs, ALL Cognitive ERQ, and plans for Relationships and Abnormal ERQs
I completed this resource as part of an Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care. I received a Distinction in this unit and an overall of DDD*.
Here are my four pages of prep notes used in the June 2019 exams, alongside my practices I carried out before the exams
This bundle includes:
ALL Questions that can be asked by the IB and the relevant study to use in an SAQ or ERQ
A glossary and summary for Paper 1
A glossary and summary for Paper 2 (Relationships and Abnormal)
A summary for Paper 3
All the key studies for SL and HL psychology
A summary grid of the CLOA and SCLOA
Plans for:
Explain the use of one research method in one study using the biological approach to understanding human behaviour.
Explain the use of one research method in one study of hormones or pheromones and behaviour.
Explain the use of one research method in one study of the brain and behaviour.
Explain the use of one research method in one study of genetics and behaviour.
Explain one ethical consideration relevant to studying the brain and behaviour
Explain one ethical consideration relevant to one study using a biological approach to understanding human behaviour.
Explain one ethical consideration relevant to one study of hormones or pheromones and behaviour.
Explain one ethical consideration relevant to one study of genetics and behaviour.
Explain one study of localization of function.
Explain one study of neuroplasticity. Explain neuroplasticity, making use of one study.
Explain one effect of neurotransmission in human behaviour, making use of one study.
Explain the formation of neural networks using one study.
Explain one technique used to study the brain in relation to behaviour.
Explain the role of one agonist, making use of one study.
Explain the role of one antagonist, making use of one study.
Explain neural pruning, making use of one study.
Explain how excitatory or inhibitory synapses play a role in one behaviour, making use of one study.
Explain the role of one hormone in human behaviour, making use of one study.
Explain one study of the role of pheromones in human behaviour.
Explain the use of twin studies and/or kinship studies using one study.
Explain one evolutionary explanation of one behaviour.
Plans include: Intro/definitions. Key study
Here is a document used to revision for the IB HL exams, it has a glossary (from ThinkIB) as well as key studies, definitions and evaluations for every point on the Paper 2 Specification
Plans for : “Discuss neurotransmitters and their effect on behaviour” 22 marks
and
“Explain the role of one antagonist with reference to one study” 9 marks
Plans for:
Explain the use of one research method in one study used in the study of the individual and the group.
Explain one ethical consideration relevant to one study of cultural influences on attitudes, identity, or behaviour.
Explain Social Identity Theory, making use of one study.
Explain one study of Social Identity Theory.
Explain Social Cognitive Theory, making use of one study.
Explain one theory of stereotypes, making use of one study.
Explain one study of stereotypes.
Explain one study that shows one effect of stereotypes on behaviour.
Explain one cultural dimension.
Explain one study of one cultural dimension.
Explain one study of one effect of culture on behaviour or cognition.
Explain one study of enculturation.
Explain one study of acculturation.
Plans including definitions, two studies, evaluation for:
Discuss Schema theory.
Discuss one model of memory.
Contrast two models of memory.
Discuss one model of thinking and decision making
Discuss one or more studies of reconstructive memory.
Discuss the reliability of one cognitive process.
Discuss one or more studies of cognitive biases.
Discuss one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process.
Discuss one cognitive bias
ALL SAQ’s and ERQ’s that can be asked by the IB in examinations with the relevant study. This goes well alongside my study summaries as ALL of these studies are summarised there.