Psychology As for Ocr

by Ellerby-Jones, Louise; Donald, Moira; Oliver, Karon

• ISBN13: 9781444123388
• ISBN10: 1444123386
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Hodder Education

Summary

Every Core Study for OCR AS presented by subject and specification experts.Each study is broken up into a core summary, supplementary background information, and commentaries to help you apply approaches, perspectives, issues and methods - all areas that are examined at AS.A comprehensive section on exam preparation gives you the tips you need to tackle the Core Studies paper and guides you towards better exam grades with confidence.Inside these colourfully designed pages you'll find features that help you:* Understand the basic methods and findings of each Core Study* Build up the background knowledge you need for good grades* Explain how to link to approaches, perspectives, issues and methods* Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.Throughout the book there are links to a separately available OCR Research Methods for Psychology AS and A2, containing extra support and detail for the Psychological Investigations AS paper.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Psychology

Social Psychology

Milgram study on obedience

Piliavin et al. Subway Samaritan

Reicher and Haslam BBC prison study

Cognitive Psychology

Loftus and Palmer study: Eyewitness testimony

Baron-Cohen et al. study: Adults with autism and theory of mind

Savage-Rumbaugh et al. study: Ape language

Developmental Psychology

Samuel and Bryant study: Conservation

Bandura et al. study: Imitating aggression

The Freud study: Little Hans

Physiological Psychology

The physiology of the nervous system

Maguire et al. study: Taxi drivers' brains

Dement and Kleitman study: REM sleep and dreaming

Sperry study: Split brains

The Psychology of Individual Differences

Rosenhan study: On being sane in insane places

Thigpen and Cleckley study: The three faces of Eve (multiple personality disorder)

Griffiths study: Cognitive bias in gamblers

Approaches and Perspectives and Section C of the Core Studies Exam

Approaches in psychology

Perspectives in psychology

Psychological Investigations: Research Methods in Psychology

Experiments (the experimental method)

Observations

Self-reports Correlations

Preparing for the Core Studies Examination

What you need to know about the core studies

Doing the core studies examination

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