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Synoptic analysis, evaluation and issues

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Synoptic analysis, evaluation and issues

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Apply theories, concepts, studies and findings from across the specification to novel contexts, showing connections between different areas of psychology and between basic and applied psychology.
Analyse and evaluate psychological explanations and research by using methodological concepts accurately, including reliability, validity, objectivity, replicability, sampling, controls, reductionism and the scientific status of evidence.

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Evaluate the contribution of both classic and contemporary research to psychological knowledge, including how evidence is generated, challenged, developed and used in real-world settings.

Discuss key issues and debates where they arise across the specification, including nature–nurture, free will and determinism, reductionism and holism, individual and situational explanations, psychology as a science, and the use of socially sensitive research.

Assess the practical, ethical and social implications of psychological knowledge and research, including applications to treatment, intervention, education, health, crime and everyday behaviour.

Construct coherent synoptic arguments that integrate evidence from more than one topic, use specialist terminology accurately and reach substantiated judgements in extended responses.

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