Edexcel A-level Psychology Year 13 revision

Topic 5: Clinical psychology

It builds on what you learned at AS in Learning theories, and takes it further.

There are 15 parts: we start with classification and diagnosis, and finish with clinical psychology key question and application to society.

1. 5.1Classification and diagnosis: DSM-5 and ICD-11; reliability, validity, comorbidity, culture and gender bias44 questions
2. 5.2Schizophrenia17 questions
3. 5.3Schizophrenia: classification, symptoms, reliability and validity of diagnosis36 questions
4. 5.4Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics, dopamine and neural correlates21 questions
5. 5.5Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations28 questions
6. 5.6Drug therapy for schizophrenia: typical and atypical antipsychotics30 questions
7. 5.7Psychological therapies for schizophrenia: CBT, family therapy and token economies21 questions
8. 5.8The interactionist approach to schizophrenia and the diathesis-stress model61 questions
9. 5.9Clinical characteristics of unipolar depressionFree 30 questions
10. 5.10Clinical characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)36 questions
11. 5.11Biological explanations of depression and OCD: genetic, neural and biochemical27 questions
12. 5.12Psychological explanations of depression and OCD: cognitive, behavioural and psychodynamic36 questions
13. 5.13Biological treatments: drug therapies, ECT and deep brain stimulation29 questions
14. 5.14Psychological treatments: CBT, systematic desensitisation, exposure and response prevention, psychoanalytic therapy36 questions
15. 5.15Clinical psychology key question and application to society23 questions

Topic 6A: Option: Criminological psychology

It builds on what you learned at AS in Social psychology and Cognitive psychology, and takes it further.

There are 15 parts: we start with defining and measuring crime, and finish with restorative justice programmes.

1. 6A.1Defining and measuring crime: official statistics, victim surveys and the dark figureFree 62 questions
2. 6A.2Social and developmental influences on offending: peers, family, poverty and social learning29 questions
3. 6A.3Biological explanations of offending: atavistic form, genetics and neural explanations21 questions
4. 6A.4Psychological explanations: Eysenck's theory and cognitive distortions (hostile attribution, minimalisation)35 questions
5. 6A.5Differential association theory and psychodynamic explanations of offending23 questions
6. 6A.6Mental disorder, psychopathy and offending31 questions
7. 6A.7Eyewitness testimony in the criminal justice system and the cognitive interview30 questions
8. 6A.8Police interviewing, interrogation techniques and false confessions26 questions
9. 6A.9Courtroom psychology: jury decision-making, expert witnesses and the credibility of evidence30 questions
10. 6A.10Offender profiling: top-down approach and the FBI typologiesFree 24 questions
11. 6A.11Offender profiling: bottom-up approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling28 questions
12. 6A.12Rehabilitation and crime prevention: offender treatment programmes, probation and evaluating effectiveness39 questions
13. 6A.13Dealing with offending: aims of custody, effects of imprisonment and recidivism34 questions
14. 6A.14Behaviour modification in custody (token economy) and anger management programmes31 questions
15. 6A.15Restorative justice programmes27 questions

Topic 6B: Option: Child psychology

There are 8 parts: we start with theories of attachment, and finish with atypical development.

1. 6B.1Theories of attachment: Bowlby's monotropic theory and learning theoryFree 43 questions
2. 6B.2Attachment types and cultural variations: Ainsworth's Strange Situation and cross-cultural research63 questions
3. 6B.3Effects of early experience: deprivation, privation and institutionalisation32 questions
4. 6B.4Day care, peer relationships and social development31 questions
5. 6B.5Parenting styles and influences of family on child development27 questions
6. 6B.6Moral and prosocial development in children30 questions
7. 6B.7Atypical development: autism spectrum disorder - characteristics, explanations and interventions29 questions
8. 6B.8Atypical development: ADHD - characteristics, explanations and treatments38 questions

Topic 6C: Option: Health psychology

It builds on what you learned at AS in Biological psychology and Learning theories, and takes it further.

There are 14 parts: we start with describing addiction, and finish with unhealthy behaviours.

1. 6C.1Describing addiction: physical and psychological dependence, tolerance and withdrawalFree 33 questions
2. 6C.2Risk factors in the development of addiction: genetic vulnerability, stress, personality, family and peers25 questions
3. 6C.3Explanations for nicotine addiction: brain neurochemistry and learning theory25 questions
4. 6C.4Explanations for gambling addiction: learning theory and cognitive bias26 questions
5. 6C.5Reducing addiction: drug therapy and behavioural interventions (aversion therapy, covert sensitisation)39 questions
6. 6C.6Cognitive approaches to reducing addiction: the theory of planned behaviour28 questions
7. 6C.7Prochaska's six-stage model of behaviour change and relapse63 questions
8. 6C.8Health beliefs: Health Belief Model and locus of controlFree 69 questions
9. 6C.9Theory of planned behaviour and protection motivation theory in health behaviour change36 questions
10. 6C.10Health promotion: media campaigns, fear arousal and public health interventions31 questions
11. 6C.11Adherence to medical advice: measuring and improving adherence31 questions
12. 6C.12Doctor-patient communication and Ley's cognitive model69 questions
13. 6C.13Pain: nature, measurement, gate control theory and pain management41 questions
14. 6C.14Unhealthy behaviours: smoking, alcohol, obesity and interventions28 questions

Topic 7.1: Psychological skills: methods and data

It builds on what you learned at AS in Research methods and Data handling, statistics and maths skills, and takes it further.

There are 13 parts: we start with planning and designing investigations, and finish with significance levels, critical values, one- and two-tailed tests and Type I/II errors.

1. 7.1.1Planning and designing investigations: aims, hypotheses, variables, designs, controls and pilot studiesFree 35 questions
2. 7.1.2Sampling, reliability, validity and generalisability32 questions
3. 7.1.3Ethics: BPS code of conduct, practical issues and socially sensitive research27 questions
4. 7.1.4Qualitative data and analysis: thematic analysis, content analysis and case studies74 questions
5. 7.1.5Descriptive statistics and data presentation: central tendency, dispersion, graphs and distributions66 questions
6. 7.1.6Maths skills for psychology: ratios, percentages, decimals, standard form, significant figures and estimation64 questions
7. 7.1.7Conducting a practical investigation: data collection, analysis and report writing67 questions
8. 7.1.8Evaluating and applying research: peer review, evaluating unseen studies and synoptic extended writing25 questions
9. 7.1.9Inferential statistics and science48 questions
10. 7.1.10Choosing and justifying statistical tests (level of data, design, parametric assumptions)76 questions
11. 7.1.11Calculating non-parametric tests: sign test, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, chi-square, Spearman's rho68 questions
12. 7.1.12Calculating parametric tests: related and unrelated t-tests and Pearson's r24 questions
13. 7.1.13Significance levels, critical values, one- and two-tailed tests and Type I/II errors63 questions

Topic 7.2: Psychological skills: issues and debates

There are 7 parts: we start with issues and debates, and finish with ethical implications of research.

1. 7.2.1Issues and debatesFree 15 questions
2. 7.2.2Gender bias in psychology23 questions
3. 7.2.3Culture bias in psychology25 questions
4. 7.2.4Free will and determinism24 questions
5. 7.2.5The nature–nurture debate28 questions
6. 7.2.6Holism and reductionism; idiographic and nomothetic approaches26 questions
7. 7.2.7Ethical implications of research: socially sensitive research23 questions

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