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Psychology

QCAA External Exam Revision · Units 3 & 4

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    Brain Function

    • Central and peripheral nervous systemsRevision skill
    • Somatic and autonomic nervous systemsRevision skill
    • Spinal cord and reflexesRevision skill
    • Localised and distributed brain functionRevision skill
    • Language, movement and emotion systemsRevision skill
    • Neural transmission, action potentials and synapsesRevision skill
    • Excitatory, inhibitory and named neurotransmittersRevision skill
    • Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseasesRevision skill

    Sensation & Perception

    • Cultural influences on visual and auditory perceptionRevision skill
    • Visual pathwayRevision skill
    • Auditory pathwayRevision skill
    • Perceptual setRevision skill
    • Gestalt principles, depth cues and visual constanciesRevision skill
    • Loudness, pitch and timbreRevision skill

    Memory

    • Memory modelsRevision skill
    • Memory capacities and durationsRevision skill
    • Explicit and implicit long-term memoryRevision skill
    • Brain structures involved in memoryRevision skill
    • Recall, recognition and relearningRevision skill
    • Encoding, retrieval, interference and forgettingRevision skill
    • Memory strategies and context-dependent evidenceRevision skill

    Learning

    • Compare classical, operant and social learningRevision skill
    • Classical-conditioning terminology and acquisitionRevision skill
    • Generalisation, discrimination, extinction and recoveryRevision skill
    • Learned fear and Little AlbertRevision skill
    • Operant reinforcement and punishmentRevision skill
    • Social learning, modelling and vicarious conditioningRevision skill

    Social Psychology

    • Primary and secondary socialisationRevision skill
    • Gender-role theoriesRevision skill
    • Compliance, identification and internalisationRevision skill
    • Status, roles and powerRevision skill
    • Obedience, conformity and social normsRevision skill
    • Asch, Milgram and Haney, Banks and Zimbardo evidenceRevision skill

    Interpersonal Processes

    • Latané and Darley's bystander evidenceRevision skill
    • Social and personal influences on prosocial behaviourRevision skill
    • Groupthink, diffusion and audience inhibitionRevision skill
    • Social influence and cost–benefit analysisRevision skill
    • General Aggression Model and media aggressionRevision skill
    • Influences on attractionRevision skill
    • Rollie and Duck's dissolution modelRevision skill

    Attitudes

    • Tri-component modelRevision skill
    • Implicit and explicit attitudesRevision skill
    • Cognitive dissonanceRevision skill
    • Social identity theoryRevision skill
    • Attributions and fundamental attribution errorRevision skill
    • Self-serving bias, confirmation bias and stereotypesRevision skill
    • Prejudice, discrimination and stereotype-priming evidenceRevision skill

    Cross-cultural Psychology

    • Sense of communityRevision skill
    • Culture, individualism and collectivismRevision skill
    • Multiculturalism and pluralismRevision skill
    • Culture shock, assimilation and marginalisationRevision skill
    • Diversity, conflict and implicit/explicit racismRevision skill
    • Prejudice-reduction conditionsRevision skill
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