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Psychology Geoffrey Shoesmith

Psychology By Geoffrey Shoesmith

Psychology by Geoffrey Shoesmith


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Revised and updated, this is a complete psychology textbook for GCSE, covering a diverse range of psychological topics and research techniques. Ideal both for class work and home study.

Psychology Summary

Psychology: A New Complete GCSE Course: for AQA Specification 4180 by Geoffrey Shoesmith

This book provides simple, clear, in-depth explanations of all the topics in the AQA GCSE specification 4180 syllabus but it will prove invaluable to students at many levels on many courses and to the independent reader. It can be used as a stand-alone home study course, as a classroom text, as a reference text or just for pleasure for those who love to think about what makes people tick. Psychology describes up-to-date research as well as some classic psychology studies and even debunks one or two psychology research myths. It leads the reader through all the topics in the syllabus as a teacher would in a classroom setting. Topics are presented as a series of lessons followed by Check Your Understanding sections, which are designed to help you check and retain the information in each lesson. An assessment record provided at the end of the book will help you keep track of your progress. Lessons are interactive with many opportunities to jot down your thoughts and reactions, reflect on how a topic relates to your own experience, discuss with other people and become more involved with the material presented. Students can pinpoint the topics they are studying for GCSE by using the table mapping the GCSE specification against the lessons in this book. For those studying outside formal classrooms there are guidelines about how best to approach your studies. The book assumes that readers have no previous knowledge of psychology and among the topics covered are: * Conformity and Obedience - would you press a button to kill someone just because you are told to do so? Many people would, it seems. * Sex and Gender - do girls and boys, men and women behave so differently? If so, why? * Memory - how does memory work and how accurate is it? * Non-Verbal Communication - do we reveal our true feelings in our body language? * Development of Personality - what exactly is Anti-Social Personality Disorder? * Prejudice and Discrimination - are we bound to discriminate against people who are unlike us? * Learning - how to remove your fear of spiders/snakes/flying/open spaces or anything else using the principles of learning. * Aggression - is aggression born into us? Is it in our hormones? Or do we learn to fight? * Research Methods and the Ethics of Psychology - psychology is based on evidence, not just ideas. But what type of study constitutes good evidence and how should we treat the people in our studies?

Psychology Reviews

This book is clear and succinct, well suited for teenagers within a school environment; but it can also be used as a stand-alone book for independent study. It possesses well-structured lessons with key concepts comprehensively described and illustrated. The assessment questions, with suggested feedback, are particularly helpful. I am sure this will become an invaluable resource in my role teaching GCSE Psychology to adults. Penny Hart, Head of Psychology, Farlington School, West Sussex

About Geoffrey Shoesmith

Geoffrey Shoesmith is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with 23 years' experience of teaching psychology to young people and adults from GCSE to Degree level. He has also spent 10 years as a government social researcher and analyst and has worked as a child care officer for Barnardos and Birmingham City Council and as a mental health liason officer for MIND. He is currently a writer and is working on analyses of data from longitudinal studies of young people, publishing findings in academic journals. He is the author of Psychology: A Complete GCSE Course (The Lutterworth Press, 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations Welcome to Psychology: About This Book Key Studies Integrating Research Methods Lessons AQA Specification Mapped Against Lessons Assessment Record AQA 3.1 Unit 1 Making Sense of Other People Memory 1. Processes of Encoding, Storage and Retrieval 2. The Multistore Explanation of Memory 3. Features of Each Memory Store 4. The Reconstructive and Levels of Processing Explanations of Memory 5. Explanations of Forgetting: Interference and Context Explanations 6. Explanations of Forgetting: Brain Damage 7. Eyewitness Testimony Non-Verbal Communication 8. Non-Verbal Communication and Paralinguistics 9. Eye Contact 10. Facial Expression 11. Body Language 12. Personal Space Development of Personality 13. Personality and Temperament 14. Eysenck's Type Theory 15. Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination 16. Definitions and Explanations 17. Ways of Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination Methods of Investigation 18. The Hypothesis and Scientific Methods 19. The Experiment Methods of Control, Data Analysis and Data Presentation 20. Experimental Designs 21. Target Populations and Sampling 22. Calculation of Mean, Mode, Median, Range and Percentages 23. Graphical Representations, Including Bar Charts Ethical Considerations 24. Ethical Issues and Ways of Dealing With Them AQA 3.2 Unit 2 Understanding Other People Learning 25. Principles of Classical Conditioning 26. Principles of Operant Conditioning 27. Application of Conditioning Procedures to Phobias 28. Application of Conditioning Procedures to Change Unwanted Behaviour Social Influence 29. Conformity 30. Obedience 31. Social Loafing 32. Deindividuation 33. Bystander Intervention Sex and Gender 34. Sex Identity and Gender Identity and The Psychodynamic Theory of Gender Development 35. The Social Learning Theory of Gender Development 36. The Gender Schema Theory of Gender Development Aggression 37. Biological Explanations of Aggression 38. The Psychodynamic and Social Learning Theory Explanations of Aggression 39. Ways of Reducing Aggression Methods of Investigation 40. Survey Methods, Questionnaires and Interviews 41. Observation and Case Study 42. The Correlation and Scatter Graphs Index

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GOR007695772
9780718893286
071889328X
Psychology: A New Complete GCSE Course: for AQA Specification 4180 by Geoffrey Shoesmith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
James Clarke & Co Ltd
20141127
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