Year 12 Psychology: Paper 1 Revision



| |Criminological Psychology |Health Psychology |

|Defining the |Define criminological psychology, showing understanding that it is about the definition and |Define health psychology, showing understanding that health psychology is about understanding |

|application |causes of crime and the identification, judgement and treatment of criminals. |health from study of the biological bases of behaviour (such as the study of drugs and their |

| | |effects) and the cognitive and social basis for behaviour and that health psychology is about |

| | |promoting good health. |

|Key terms |Crime, recidivism, token economy, anti-social behaviour, stereotyping, modelling, eye witness |Substance misuse, synapse, tolerance, physical dependence, psychological dependence, |

| |testimony |withdrawal. |

|How science works |Describe research methods used to assess witness effectiveness including the laboratory |Describe and evaluate the use of animals in laboratory studies when researching drugs. |

| |experiment and the field experiment; Evaluate the methods with relation to relative strengths |Describe and evaluate two research methods using humans to study the effects of drugs. |

| |and weaknesses, their use in criminological psychology, reliability, validity and ethical |Evaluate, including relative strengths and weaknesses, research methods using animals (both |

| |issues. |practical and ethical strengths and weaknesses) and humans (including issues of reliability |

| | |and validity). |

|Content |Describe and evaluate two explanations of criminal/anti-social behaviour: |Describe and evaluate two explanations of substance misuse: |

| |social learning theory and the possible role of the media; |One explanation must be from the biological approach |

| |the influence of biological factors affecting personality |social learning theory and the role of models |

| |Describe and evaluate three studies of eyewitness testimony: |Describe and compare relative strengths and weaknesses of explanations from the biological and|

| |Loftus and Palmer (1974) |learning approaches. |

| |Yuille & Cutshall (1986) |Describe with reference to Heroine and nicotine |

| |Describe and evaluate two ways of treating offenders: |Mode of action |

| |token economy |Effects |

| |anger management |Tolerance (or absence of tolerance) |

| | |Physical and or psychological dependencies |

| | |withdrawal |

| | |Describe and evaluate two ways of treating substance misuse: |

| | |Maintenance therapy the (biological approach) |

| | |Token Economy Programme (the learning approach) |

| | |Describe and evaluate one campaign that has encouraged people not to use recreational drugs. |

|Key Studies |Describe and evaluate Loftus and Palmer’s (1974) |Describe and evaluate Blattler et al (2000) |

| |Describe and evaluate Charlton et al (2000) naturalistic experiment in St Helena |Describe and evaluate Ennett et al (1994) |

|Key issue |Describe one key issue in criminological psychology, using the content they have studied |Describe one key issue in health psychology, using the content they have studied within the |

| |within the application: e.g. the use of offender profiling, the reliability of Eye Witness |application: e.g. the issue of how to prevent drug use. |

| |Testimony | |

|Evidence of practice|Summarise two magazine or newspaper articles (can include TV or web-based material) concerning|Conduct a content analysis of magazine or newspaper articles (can include TV or web-based |

| |a topic covered within this application. Write up the summaries. Draw conclusions about the |material) concerning a topic covered within this application. Write up the findings, linked to|

| |findings, linked to concepts, theories and/or research (as appropriate) from the topic of |concepts, theories and/or research (as appropriate) from the topic of relevance: |

| |relevance: | |

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