Psychology A2: every topic explained
60 short explanations for Psychology A2, one per syllabus topic: the idea, the rules, the common mistake and a worked example. Each one links to our notes and a free test on that topic.
Clinical Psychology
- Schizophrenia: diagnostic criteria
- Schizophrenia: explanations
- Schizophrenia: treatment and management
- Mood disorders: diagnostic criteria
- Mood disorders: explanations of depressive disorder
- Mood disorders: treatment and management
- Impulse control disorders: diagnostic criteria
- Impulse control disorders: explanations
- Impulse control disorders: treatment and management
- Anxiety and fear-related disorders: diagnostic criteria
- Anxiety and fear-related disorders: explanations
- Anxiety and fear-related disorders: treatment and management
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: diagnostic criteria
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: explanations
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: treatment and management
Consumer Psychology
- The physical environment: retail store design
- The physical environment: sound and consumer behaviour
- The physical environment: retail atmospherics
- The psychological environment: environmental influences on consumers
- The psychological environment: menu design psychology
- The psychological environment: consumer behaviour and personal space
- Consumer decision-making: models and strategies
- Consumer decision-making: choice heuristics
- Consumer decision-making: mistakes in decision-making
- The product: packaging and positioning
- The product: selling the product
- The product: buying the product
- Advertising: types of advertising and advertising techniques
- Advertising: advertising-consumer interaction
- Advertising: brand awareness and recognition
Health Psychology
- The patient-practitioner relationship: interpersonal skills
- The patient-practitioner relationship: diagnosis and style
- The patient-practitioner relationship: misusing health services
- Adherence to medical advice: types and reasons for non-adherence
- Adherence to medical advice: measuring non-adherence
- Adherence to medical advice: improving adherence
- Pain: types and theories of pain
- Pain: measuring pain
- Pain: managing and controlling pain
- Stress: sources of stress
- Stress: measures of stress
- Stress: managing stress
- Health promotion: strategies for promoting health
- Health promotion: schools and worksites
- Health promotion: individual factors in changing health beliefs
Organisational Psychology
- Motivation to work: need theories
- Motivation to work: cognitive theories
- Motivation to work: motivators at work
- Leadership and management: traditional and modern theories
- Leadership and management: leadership style
- Leadership and management: leaders and followers
- Group behaviour: group development and decision-making
- Group behaviour: individual and group performance
- Group behaviour: conflict at work
- Organisational work conditions: physical work conditions
- Organisational work conditions: temporal conditions
- Organisational work conditions: health and safety
- Satisfaction at work: theories of job satisfaction
- Satisfaction at work: measuring job satisfaction
- Satisfaction at work: attitudes to work
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