Psychology for A2-Level

This Revised Third Edition of the best-selling "Psychology for A2-Level" has been updated to reflect the revised AQA(A) specification, which is being examined for the first time in January 2006. The book is divided into eight sections, each broken down into units and sub-topics to provide complete coverage of the AQA(A) specification as follows: Social psychology Unit 1 - Social cognition, Unit 2 - Relationships, Unit 3 - Pro- and anti-social behaviour; Physiological psychology Unit 4 - Brain and behaviour, Unit 5 - Biological rhythms, sleep and dreaming, Unit 6 - Motivation and emotion; Cognitive psychology Unit 7 - Attention and pattern recognition, Unit 8 - Perceptual processes and development, Unit 9 - Language and thought; Developmental psychology Unit 10 - Cognitive development, Unit 11 - Social and personality development, Unit 12 - Adulthood; Comparative psychology Unit 13 - Determinants of animal behaviour, Unit 14 - Animal cognition, And Unit 15 - Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour.
It also includes: Individual differences Unit 16 - Issues in classification and diagnosis of psychological abnormality, Unit 17 - Psychpathology, Unit 18 - Treating mental disorders; Perspectives Unit 19 - Issues in psychology, Unit 20 - Debates in psychology, Unit 21 - Approaches in psychology; And Exam preparation and coursework Unit 22 - Coursework Unit 23 - Statistical analysis for coursework; Unit 24 - Preparing for the A2 examination.