Psychology

Geoffrey Shoesmith is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with 23 years' experience of teaching psychology to young people and adults from GCSE to Degree level. He has also spent 10 years as a government social researcher and analyst and has worked as a child care officer for Barnardos and Birmingham City Council and as a mental health liason officer for MIND. He is currently a writer and is working on analyses of data from longitudinal studies of young people, publishing findings in academic journals. He is the author of Psychology: A Complete GCSE Course (The Lutterworth Press, 2003).

• List of Figures, Tables and IllustrationsWelcome to Psychology: About This BookKey StudiesIntegrating Research Methods LessonsAQA Specification Mapped Against LessonsAssessment RecordAQA 3.1 Unit 1 Making Sense of Other PeopleMemory1. Processes of Encoding, Storage and Retrieval2. The Multistore Explanation of Memory3. Features of Each Memory Store4. The Reconstructive and Levels of Processing Explanations of Memory5. Explanations of Forgetting: Interference and Context Explanations6. Explanations of Forgetting: Brain Damage7. Eyewitness TestimonyNon-Verbal Communication8. Non-Verbal Communication and Paralinguistics9. Eye Contact10. Facial Expression11. Body Language12. Personal SpaceDevelopment of Personality13. Personality and Temperament14. Eysenck's Type Theory15. Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD)Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination16. Definitions and Explanations17. Ways of Reducing Prejudice and DiscriminationMethods of Investigation18. The Hypothesis and Scientific Methods19. The ExperimentMethods of Control, Data Analysis and Data Presentation20. Experimental Designs21. Target Populations and Sampling22. Calculation of Mean, Mode, Median, Range and Percentages23. Graphical Representations, Including Bar ChartsEthical Considerations24. Ethical Issues and Ways of Dealing With ThemAQA 3.2 Unit 2 Understanding Other PeopleLearning25. Principles of Classical Conditioning26. Principles of Operant Conditioning27. Application of Conditioning Procedures to Phobias28. Application of Conditioning Procedures to Change Unwanted BehaviourSocial Influence29. Conformity30. Obedience31. Social Loafing32. Deindividuation33. Bystander InterventionSex and Gender34. Sex Identity and Gender Identity and The Psychodynamic Theory ofGender Development35. The Social Learning Theory of Gender Development36. The Gender Schema Theory of Gender Development Aggression37. Biological Explanations of Aggression38. The Psychodynamic and Social Learning TheoryExplanations of Aggression39. Ways of Reducing AggressionMethods of Investigation40. Survey Methods, Questionnaires and Interviews41. Observation and Case Study42. The Correlation and Scatter GraphsIndex

This book is clear and succinct, well suited for teenagers within a school environment; but it can also be used as a stand-alone book for independent study. It possesses well-structured lessons with key concepts comprehensively described and illustrated. The assessment questions, with suggested feedback, are particularly helpful. I am sure this will become an invaluable resource in my role teaching GCSE Psychology to adults.