Edexcel A-Level Psychology

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 2, Topic 7 (application option): caregiver-infant interactions, Bowlby's theory of attachment, types of attachment and the Strange Situation, cross-cultural attachment, deprivation and privation, institutionalisation, the effects of day care, autism (explanations and interventions), and the topic's contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 2, Topic 5 (compulsory): the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders (DSM-5, ICD-11), reliability and validity of diagnosis, schizophrenia (symptoms, biological and psychological explanations, drug and psychological treatments), a second disorder (depression/OCD), and the topic's classic study (Rosenhan), contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 1, Topic 2: the multi-store and working memory models, reconstructive memory (Bartlett), Tulving's long-term memory, explanations for forgetting, individual and developmental differences in memory, and the topic's classic study (Baddeley), contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 2, Topic 6 (application option): defining and measuring crime, biological and social explanations of criminality, eyewitness testimony (Loftus & Palmer), the cognitive interview, offender profiling, jury decision-making, treatment and punishment of offenders, and the topic's contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) exam preparation: the three-paper structure and assessment objectives, extended essay technique for 8/12/20-mark questions, research methods and mathematical skills, and a specification map and revision checklist across all nine topics.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 2, Topic 8 (application option): substance misuse (dependence, tolerance, withdrawal), biological and learning explanations of addiction, drug and aversion therapies, anti-drug campaigns and persuasion, attitudes to health and behaviour change, and the topic's classic study, contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 3, Sections B and C: the nature-nurture debate, free will and determinism, reductionism and holism, gender and culture bias, ethics and social sensitivity, nomothetic and idiographic approaches, psychology as a science, comparison of approaches, reviewing and evaluating studies, and synoptic essay skills.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 1, Topic 4: classical and operant conditioning, social learning theory, explaining and treating phobias (systematic desensitisation, flooding, aversion therapy), the learning theory of attachment, the ethics of animal experiments, and the topic's classic studies (Watson & Rayner; Bandura), contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 3, Section A: experimental methods and design, sampling and variables, non-experimental methods, reliability and validity, ethics, quantitative data and descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and significance, choosing and using the Edexcel statistical tests (Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, Spearman, chi-square, sign test), qualitative analysis, and report writing.

Edexcel A-Level Psychology (9PS0) Paper 1, Topic 1: obedience and Milgram's research, agency and social impact theory, conformity, resistance and minority influence, prejudice (realistic conflict and social identity theory), individual vs situational explanations, and the topic's classic study, contemporary study, key question and practical investigation.