Cambridge A-level Psychology Year 13 revision

Topic 7: Clinical psychology

There are 15 parts: we start with classification and diagnosis, and finish with reducing addiction.

1. 7.1Classification and diagnosis: DSM-5 and ICD-11; reliability, validity, comorbidity, culture and gender bias44 questions
2. 7.2Schizophrenia: classification, symptoms, reliability and validity of diagnosis36 questions
3. 7.3Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics, dopamine and neural correlates21 questions
4. 7.4Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations28 questions
5. 7.5Drug therapy for schizophrenia: typical and atypical antipsychotics30 questions
6. 7.6Psychological therapies for schizophrenia: CBT, family therapy and token economies21 questions
7. 7.7Clinical characteristics of unipolar depressionFree 30 questions
8. 7.8Biological explanations of depression and OCD: genetic, neural and biochemical27 questions
9. 7.9Psychological explanations of depression and OCD: cognitive, behavioural and psychodynamic36 questions
10. 7.10Biological treatments: drug therapies, ECT and deep brain stimulation29 questions
11. 7.11Psychological treatments: CBT, systematic desensitisation, exposure and response prevention, psychoanalytic therapy36 questions
12. 7.12Clinical characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)36 questions
13. 7.13Describing addiction: physical and psychological dependence, tolerance and withdrawalFree 33 questions
14. 7.14Risk factors in the development of addiction: genetic vulnerability, stress, personality, family and peers25 questions
15. 7.15Reducing addiction: drug therapy and behavioural interventions (aversion therapy, covert sensitisation)39 questions

Topic 8: Consumer psychology

There are 3 parts: we start with consumer psychology, and finish with advertising.

1. 8.1Consumer psychology: the physical and psychological shopping environment16 questions
2. 8.2Consumer decision-making and the product: choice, heuristics, packaging and pricing19 questions
3. 8.3Advertising: types, techniques, persuasion and brand awareness16 questions

Topic 9: Health psychology

There are 10 parts: we start with doctor-patient communication and Ley's cognitive model, and finish with health beliefs.

1. 9.1Doctor-patient communication and Ley's cognitive model69 questions
2. 9.2Adherence to medical advice: measuring and improving adherence31 questions
3. 9.3Pain: nature, measurement, gate control theory and pain management41 questions
4. 9.4The physiology of stress: sympathomedullary pathway, HPA axis and General Adaptation SyndromeFree 42 questions
5. 9.5Sources of stress: life changes and daily hassles38 questions
6. 9.6Measuring stress: self-report (SRRS, hassles scale) and physiological measures25 questions
7. 9.7Managing stress: drug therapy (benzodiazepines, beta-blockers) and biofeedback34 questions
8. 9.8Managing stress: stress inoculation training, hardiness training, social support and gender differences in coping33 questions
9. 9.9Health promotion: media campaigns, fear arousal and public health interventions31 questions
10. 9.10Health beliefs: Health Belief Model and locus of controlFree 69 questions

Topic 10: Organisational psychology

There are 3 parts: we start with organisational psychology, and finish with organisational psychology.

1. 10.1Organisational psychology: motivation to work and rewards16 questions
2. 10.2Organisational psychology: leadership, management and group behaviour at work19 questions
3. 10.3Organisational psychology: working conditions and satisfaction at work17 questions

Topic 11: Research methods (A Level)

It builds on what you learned at AS Level in Research methods, and takes it further.

There are 5 parts: we start with inferential statistics and science, and finish with calculating parametric tests.

1. 11.1Inferential statistics and science48 questions
2. 11.2Choosing and justifying statistical tests (level of data, design, parametric assumptions)76 questions
3. 11.3Significance levels, critical values, one- and two-tailed tests and Type I/II errors63 questions
4. 11.4Calculating non-parametric tests: sign test, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, chi-square, Spearman's rho68 questions
5. 11.5Calculating parametric tests: related and unrelated t-tests and Pearson's r24 questions

Topic 12: Issues and debates (A Level)

It builds on what you learned at AS Level in Issues and debates, and takes it further.

There are 6 parts: we start with free will and determinism, and finish with ethical implications of research.

1. 12.1Free will and determinism24 questions
2. 12.2The nature–nurture debate28 questions
3. 12.3Holism and reductionism; idiographic and nomothetic approaches26 questions
4. 12.4Gender bias in psychology23 questions
5. 12.5Culture bias in psychology25 questions
6. 12.6Ethical implications of research: socially sensitive research23 questions

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