AQA A-Level Psychology

Learning approaches: ii) Social learning theory including imitation, identification, modelling, vicarious reinforcement, the role of mediational processes and Bandura’s research.

Learning approaches: i) The behaviourist approach, including classical conditioning and Pavlov’s research, operant conditioning, types of reinforcement and Skinner’s research

Origins of psychology: Wundt, introspection and the emergence of Psychology as a science.

The biological approach to treating OCD: drug anxiety

The biological approach to explaining OCD: genetic and neural explanations

The cognitive approach to treating depression: cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including challenging irrational thoughts.

The cognitive approach to explaining depression: Beck’s negative triad and Ellis’s ABC model

The behavioural approach to treating phobias: systematic desensitisation, including relaxation and use of hierarchy, flooding.

The behavioural approach to explaining phobias: the two-process model, including classical and operant conditioning

The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder