Psychology As for Ocr
by Ellerby-Jones, Louise; Donald, Moira; Oliver, KaronFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-10-17
Publisher(s): Hodder Education
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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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