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SUBJECT A2 Psychology Edexcel :

This year I will be studying UNIT OF WORK UNIT 3 Criminal and Child TOPIC CRIMINAL 1. Defining: crime, anti-social behaviour and recidivism 2. Defining: Eyewitness testimony, stereotyping, modelling and token economy 3. Laboratory and field experiments and examples/evaluation of their use to assess witness effectiveness 4. Evaluating laboratory and field experiments including reliability and validity 5. Use of laboratory and field experiments with regard to ethics 6. Social learning theory and explaining antisocial behaviour 7. Labelling and self-fulfilling prophecy and explaining antisocial behaviour 8. Loftus and Palmer (1974) a laboratory experiment looking at eyewitness testimony and evaluation 9. Yuille and Cutshall (1986) a field study looking at eyewitness testimony and evaluation 10. One other study into ewt and evaluation Yarmey (2004) Field experiment 11. Token economy programmes and treating offenders and evaluation 12. One other way of treating offenders and evaluation Anger Management One key issue and a practical relating to it MY PROGRESS 1

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UNIT 4 How Psychology Works

CHILD 1. Defining attachment, deprivation, privation 2. Defining separation anxiety, daycare 3. Evolution and evolutionary aspects of attachment 4. Observations, case studies and evaluation of each method 5. Use of methods in child psychology validity, reliability, ethics 6. Cross-sectional and longitudinal research and child psychology 7. Privation and reversibility Daycare: advantages and disadvantages 8. Autism Characteristics, two explanations, and how autism might affect child development 9. Bowlby attachments, maternal deprivation hypothesis (and psychodynamic link) 10. Ainsworth Strange Situation, child rearing styles ad cross-cultural studies 11. Deprivation, separation ways of reducing negative effects Genie Curtiss (1977) Bowlby 44 Juvenile Thieves (1946) 12. Key Issue Daycare and practical relating to this issue A: Definition of the application abnormality, schizophrenia, reliability, validity and data B: Methodology Twin Studies, Case Studies and Animal experiments C: Content Social norms of abnormality Evaluate the definition of abnormality

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Use of DSM Features of schizophrenia and one other disorder Biological explanation of schizophrenia and one other For one other disorder descrivbe and evaluate 2 explanations Describe and evaluate 2 treatments of schizophrenia One other disorder describe and evaluate 2 treatments D: Studies in Detail Rosenhan etc E: Evidence of short practical in one key issue F: Psychology and contributions to society G: Ethical issues in psychology H: Research methods I: Psychology and todays society J: Deabtes in psychology K: Application of knowledge to new sitations My exam/coursework will look like UNIT 3 JANUARY EXAM UNIT 4 MAY EXAM

1hour and 30 minute examination divided in the 4 options and students select 2. Each option consists of short-answer questions and a section of extended writing 2 hour long examination divided into 2 sections. One focusing on clinical psychology and one on issues and debates. Each section will consist of short-answer and extended writing

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My A2 qualification is made up of

Marks into Grades

My exam dates are EXAMINATION DATES: UNIT 3 You will sit this exam in January. Dates are TBA by Applications of the examination board. Any re-sits we be sat in Psychology the May/June. Dates are TBA by the examination board. UNIT 4 How You will sit this exam in the Summer Term, usually Psychology Works in May/June. Dates are TBA by the examination board.

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