AQA (A) AS Psychology Unit 2: Biological & Social Psychology & Individual Differences

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
Stress as a bodily response: the body’s response to stress
Stress as a bodily response: stress-related illness and the immune system
Stress in everyday life: life changes and daily hassles
Stress in everyday life: workplace stress
Stress in everyday life: personality factors, including Type A behaviour
Stress in everyday life: emotion-focused and problem-focused approaches
Stress in everyday life: physiological methods of stress management
Stress in everyday life: psychological methods of stress management
Social psychology: social influence
Social influence: types of conformity and explanations for why people conform
Social influence: obedience
Social influence in everyday life: explanations of independent behaviour
Social influence in everyday life: the influence of individual differences on independent behaviour
Social influence in everyday life: the implications for social change of research into social science
Individual differences: psychopathology
Psychopathology: defining and explaining psychological abnormality
Psychopathology: limitations in defining psychological abnormality
Psychopathology: the biological approach to psychopathology
Psychopathology: the psychodynamic approach to psychopathology
Psychopathology: the behavioural approach to psychopathology
Psychopathology: the cognitive approach to psychopathology
Psychopathology: treating abnormality — biological therapies

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