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97 free lessons for GCSE. Each one has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
GCSE ยท Pearson Edexcel 1PS0
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5 lessons
Topic 1: Development
7 lessons
Topic 2: Memory
7 lessons
Topic 3: Psychological problems
8 lessons
- Depression and addiction: symptoms (ICD)
- Incidence and impact of mental health problems
- Genetic explanations of depression and addiction
- Cognitive theory of depression and learning theory of addiction
- Treatments: CBT and drugs
- Key study: Caspi et al. (2003) life stress and the 5-HTT gene
- Key study: Young (2007) CBT with internet addicts
- Issues and debates: nature and nurture
Topic 4: The brain and neuropsychology
7 lessons
- Structure and function of the brain: the lobes
- Lateralisation of function
- Neurons, synapses and the central nervous system
- Neurological damage: agnosia, prosopagnosia and the prefrontal cortex
- Key study: Damasio et al. (1994) the return of Phineas Gage
- Key study: Sperry (1968) split-brain patients
- Issues and debates: how psychology has changed over time
Topic 5: Social influence
8 lessons
- Social influence: key terms
- Factors affecting bystander intervention
- Conformity to majority influence
- Obedience to authority and preventing blind obedience
- Crowds and collective behaviour
- Key study: Piliavin et al. (1969) Good Samaritanism
- Key study: Haney, Banks and Zimbardo (1973) prisoners and guards
- Issues and debates: social and cultural issues
Topic 11: Research methods
20 lessons
- Variables in research
- Controlling extraneous variables
- Writing hypotheses
- Sampling methods
- Experimental designs
- Reliability and validity
- Ethical issues in research
- Laboratory, field and natural experiments
- Interviews and questionnaires
- Correlational studies
- Case studies
- Observations
- Maths skills: decimals, standard form, estimation and significant figures
- Mean, median, mode and range
- Ratios, fractions and percentages
- The normal distribution
- Frequency tables, bar charts and histograms
- Scatter diagrams and correlation
- Types of data
- Issues and debates: ethics in psychological research