Summary:
This pack draws on successful classroom practice to focus on the demands of the examination. It features 'lessons' on key topic areas, consisting of lively introductory activities, class and individual practicals, details of key studies, worksheets, structured discussion acitivties and exam-style questions. Each topic begins with a comprehensive lesson plan.

• Helping you prepare your students for success in their AS exams
  

•  Offering a varied and stimulating approach to teaching each subject area
  

• Providing interactive lesson material to cover the whole unit
  

• Featuring exam style questions to test understanding and plan revision
  

• Helping you prepare your students for success in their AS exams
  

•  Offering a varied and stimulating approach to teaching each subject area
  

• Providing interactive lesson material to cover the whole unit
  

• Featuring exam style questions to test understanding and plan revision
  

• Helping you prepare your students for success in their AS exams
  

•  Offering a varied and stimulating approach to teaching each subject area
  

• Providing interactive lesson material to cover the whole unit
  

• Featuring exam style questions to test understanding and plan revision
  

Table of Contents:
Biological Psychology: Stress
The body’s response to stressors (GAS)
The relationship between stress and illness: cardiovascular disorders
The relationship between stress and illness: effects of stress on the immune system
Stress in everyday life: life changes and daily hassles
Stress in everyday life: workplace stressors
Individual differences: personality, culture and gender
Emotion-focused or problem-focused approaches
Stress management: physiological approaches
Stress management: psychological approaches
Social Psychology: Social Influence :
Social influence: types of conformity
Social influence: explanations of why people conform
Social influence: obedience
Explanations of independent behaviour
Individual differences and resistance to social pressure
Social influence in everyday life
Implications for social change/social science research
Individual Differences: Abnormality
Defining abnormality
Defining abnormality: cultural relativism
Biological (medical) model of abnormality
Psychological models of abnormality: psychodynamic
Psychological models of abnormality: behavioural
Psychological models of abnormality: cognitive
Biological therapies
Psychological therapies (1)
Psychological therapies (2)

About the Author(s):
Molly Marshall is an experienced teacher and examiner for AS and A2 psychology.