Complete OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) path covering Component 01 research methods, Component 02 the twenty core studies across the five areas (social, cognitive, developmental, biological and individual differences), and Component 03 applied psychology (the compulsory issues in mental health plus child, criminal, environmental and sport & exercise psychology), with exam strategy.
A-Level Psychology — Research Methods (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 01: planning, conducting, analysing and reporting psychological research — experimental and non-experimental methods, aims/hypotheses and variables, experimental designs and sampling, designing observations and self-reports, levels of data and descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and the five non-parametric tests (sign, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney U, Spearman's rho, chi-square), reliability and validity, research ethics and the BPS Code, report writing, referencing and how science works.
A-Level Psychology — Core Studies: Social Area (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 02, the social area: the defining principles of the area and its two key themes — responses to people in authority (Milgram 1963; Bocchiaro et al. 2012) and responses to people in need (Piliavin et al. 1969; Levine et al. 2001) — with each classic and contemporary study examined in core-study depth, paired for comparison, and linked to the areas, perspectives and debates.
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A-Level Psychology — Core Studies: Cognitive Area (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 02, the cognitive area: the defining principles of the area and its two key themes — memory (Loftus & Palmer 1974; Grant et al. 1998) and attention (Moray 1959; Simons & Chabris 1999) — with each classic and contemporary study examined in core-study depth, paired for comparison, and linked to the areas, perspectives and debates.
A-Level Psychology — Core Studies: Developmental Area (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 02, the developmental area: the defining principles of the area and its two key themes — external influences on children's behaviour (Bandura et al. 1961; Chaney et al. 2004) and moral development (Kohlberg 1968; Lee et al. 1997) — with each classic and contemporary study examined in core-study depth, paired for comparison, and linked to the areas, perspectives and debates.
A-Level Psychology — Core Studies: Biological Area (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 02, the biological area: the defining principles of the area and its two key themes — regions of the brain (Sperry 1968; Casey et al. 2011) and brain plasticity (Blakemore & Cooper 1970; Maguire et al. 2000) — with each classic and contemporary study examined in core-study depth, paired for comparison, and linked to the areas, perspectives and debates.
A-Level Psychology — Core Studies: Individual Differences Area (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 02, the individual differences area: the defining principles of the area and its two key themes — understanding disorders (Freud 1909, Little Hans; Baron-Cohen et al. 1997) and measuring differences (Gould 1982; Hancock et al. 2011) — with each classic and contemporary study examined in core-study depth, paired for comparison, and linked to the areas, perspectives and debates.
A-Level Psychology — Issues in Mental Health (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 03, Section A (compulsory): issues in mental health — the historical context of mental health, defining abnormality and categorising disorders (Rosenhan 1973), the medical model and its biological explanations and treatments (Gottesman et al. 2010), and alternatives to the medical model including the behaviourist, cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-neuroscience explanations (Szasz 2011) with non-biological treatments.
A-Level Psychology — Child Psychology (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 03 applied option: child psychology — intelligence (Van Leeuwen et al. 2008), pre-adult brain development (Barkley-Levenson & Galvan 2014), perceptual development (Gibson & Walk 1960), cognitive development and education (Wood et al. 1976), the development of attachment (Ainsworth & Bell 1970) and the impact of advertising on children (Johnson & Young 2002), with the applications, issues and debates that run through the option.
A-Level Psychology — Criminal Psychology (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 03 applied option: criminal psychology — what makes a criminal (Raine et al. 1997), the collection and processing of forensic evidence (Hall & Player 2008), the collection of evidence and the cognitive interview (Memon & Higham 1999), psychology and the courtroom (Dixon et al. 2002), crime prevention (Wilson & Kelling 1982) and the effect of imprisonment (Haney et al. 1973), with the applications, issues and debates that run through the option.
A-Level Psychology — Environmental Psychology (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 03 applied option: environmental psychology — stressors in the environment (Black & Black 2007), biological rhythms and their disruption (Czeisler et al. 1982), recycling and conservation behaviour (Lord 1994), ergonomics and human factors (Drews & Doig 2014), the psychological effects of the built environment (Ulrich 1984) and territory and personal space (Wells 2000), with the applications, issues and debates that run through the option.
A-Level Psychology — Sport & Exercise Psychology (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) Component 03 applied option: sport and exercise psychology — arousal and anxiety (Fazey & Hardy 1988), exercise and mental health (Lewis et al. 2014), motivation, self-efficacy and imagery (Munroe-Chandler et al. 2008), personality and sport (Kroll & Crenshaw 1970), performing with others (Smith et al. 1979) and audience effects (Zajonc et al. 1969), with the applications, issues and debates that run through the option.
A-Level Psychology — Exam Strategy & Techniques (OCR)
OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) exam preparation: the three-component structure and assessment objectives, core-study and comparison/essay technique for Component 02, applied-source and 15-mark essay technique for Component 03, and synoptic skills across the areas, perspectives and debates.