Psychology

Course Outline

CORE STUDIES: as below - click on the link to view the worksheet

THE COGNITIVE APPROACH

Loftus, E.F. & Palmer, J.C. (1974)  Reconstruction of auto-mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 13, 585 -589

Deregowski, J.B. (1972) Pictorial perception and culture.  Scientific American, 227, 82-88.

Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U.  (1985) Does the autistic child have a ‘theory of mind’?  Cognition, 21, 37-46

Gardner, R.A. & Gardner, B.T.  (1969). Teaching sign language to a chimpanzee. Science, 165, 664-72

THE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH

Bandura, A., Ross, D. & Ross, S.A. (1961) Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-82

Samuel, J. & Bryant, P. (1984) Asking only one question in the conservation experiment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 25, 315-18.

Hodges, J. & Tizard, B.  (1989b)  Social and family relationships of ex-institutional adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 30, 77-97.

Freud, S. (1909) Analysis of a phobia of a five year old boy. In The Pelican Freud Library (1977), Vol 8, Case Histories 1, pages 169-306

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH

Schachter, S  & Singer, J.E. (1962) Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state.  Psychological Review, 69, 379-99.

Dement, W. & Kleitman, N. (1957) The relation of eye movements during sleep to dream activity: An objective method for the study of dreaming. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53, 339-46

Sperry, R.W. (1968) Hemisphere deconnection and unity in consciousness. American Psychologist, 23, 723-33.

Raine, A, Buchsbaum, M & LaCasse, L.  (1997) Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography.  Biological Psychiatry, 42 (6), 495 - 508

THE SOCIAL APPROACH

Milgram. S (1963) Behavioural Study of Obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371-78.

Haney, C., Banks, W.C. & Zimbardo, P.G. (1973) A study of prisoners and guards in a simulated prison. Naval Research Review, 30, 4-17.

Piliavin, I.M., Rodin, J.A. & Piliavin, J. (1969) Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 289 -99)

Tajfel, H. (1970)  Experiments in intergroup discrimination.  Scientific American, 223, 96-102

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Gould, S.J. (1982) A nation of morons. New Scientist (6 May 1982), 349 - 52

Hraba, J. & Grant, G. (1970) Black is beautiful: A re-examination of racial preference and identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16, 398-402

Rosenhan, D.L. (1973) On being sane in insane places. Science, 179. 250-58

Thigpen, C.H. & Cleckley, H. (1954) A case of multiple personality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 49, 135-51

PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS as below

Research Methods handout

Questionnaires

Observation

Experiment 

Correlation

The Practical Work Folder

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REVISION MATERIALS FOR THE AS EXAMS

A2 PSYCHOLOGY: to include

COURSEWORK: to include

Research Project

Assignment

PSYCHOLOGY AND SPORT

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PSYCHOLOGY AND CRIME

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