Themes and Perspectives

A number of themes run through the course.  In particular the themes influence the types of questions on the core studies paper 2.  You will need to know what each of the terms mean and how they can be applied to some of the core studies.

 

Application of psychology to everyday life

Determinism

Ecological validity

Ethics

Ethnocentric bias

Individual and situational explanations

Nature and nurture

Psychometrics

Qualitative and quantitative measures

Reductionism

Reinforcement

Reliability and validity

Social control

Usefulness of psychological research


Experimental method

Laboratory experiments/apparatus

Controls

Samples/sampling

Case studies

Observation studies

Self report measures

Longitudinal studies

Snap shot studies

Generalisations

 

Approaches in psychology

cognitive

developmental

physiological

social

individual differences

 



 

 

 

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