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Past to present: key psychological approaches · A Level Psychology · Courselo

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Eduqas/WJEC component 1: Past to present

Past to present: key psychological approaches

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Unit 10

Eduqas/WJEC component 1: Past to present

2 lessons · 4 h 30 min of study

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Past to present: classic studies and historical development2 h of study

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Past to present: key psychological approaches

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Explain the assumptions, key concepts and view of human behaviour of the behaviourist approach, including the role of environmental determinism, learning and conditioning.
Explain the assumptions, key concepts and view of human behaviour of the cognitive approach, including internal mental processes, inference and the use of models and information processing ideas.

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Explain the assumptions, key concepts and view of human behaviour of the biological approach, including genetics, the nervous system, brain structures and neurochemistry as explanations of behaviour.

Explain the assumptions, key concepts and view of human behaviour of the psychodynamic approach, including the unconscious, early experience, conflict and personality structure.

Explain the assumptions, key concepts and view of human behaviour in positive psychology, including its focus on wellbeing, strengths and flourishing.

Compare and evaluate the approaches in terms of explanations of behaviour, methods of investigation, determinism and free will, nature and nurture, reductionism and holism, and usefulness in psychology as a science.

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