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OCR GCSE Psychology

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Notes for OCR GCSE Psychology (J203), in folders for the seven topics in the specification's order, with the core studies set out beside the theories they support. Research methods has its own folder, covering planning, doing and analysing research. Delete any folder your course leaves out once the notes are yours.

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  • Criminal psychology
    • Crime and how it is measured5 KB
    • Social learning theory of criminality and Cooper and Mackie (1986)6 KB
    • Eysenck's criminal personality theory and Heaven (1996)6 KB
    • Rehabilitation and punishment5 KB
  • Development
    • Brain structure and the nervous system4 KB
    • Stages of development, the developing brain and IQ4 KB
    • Piaget's theory of cognitive development8 KB
    • Dweck, Willingham and Blackwell et al. (2007) on mindset and learning7 KB
  • Psychological problems
    • Mental health, prevalence and stigma5 KB
    • Schizophrenia, its characteristics and statistics4 KB
    • Explanations of schizophrenia and Daniel et al. (1991)7 KB
    • Clinical depression, its explanations and Tandoc et al. (2015)8 KB
    • Treatments for schizophrenia and clinical depression6 KB
  • Social influence
    • Conformity, obedience and crowd behaviour4 KB
    • Situational factors and Bickman (1974)6 KB
    • Dispositional factors and NatCen (2011)6 KB
    • Minority and majority influence in changing attitudes4 KB
  • Memory
    • Information processing, forgetting and the brain in memory4 KB
    • The multi-store model of memory and Wilson, Kopelman and Kapur (2008)6 KB
    • Reconstructive memory and Braun, Ellis and Loftus (2002)6 KB
    • Applying memory research: advertising and the Wechsler Memory Scale4 KB
  • Sleep and dreaming
    • Sleep functions, stages and body clocks4 KB
    • Insomnia and the hypothalamus5 KB
    • Freud's theory of dreaming and the Wolfman (1918)5 KB
    • The activation synthesis theory of dreaming and Williams et al. (1992)5 KB
  • Research methods
    • Hypotheses, variables and experimental designs5 KB
    • Populations, sampling and ethics5 KB
    • Experiments and observations5 KB
    • Interviews, questionnaires, case studies and correlations5 KB
    • Types of data and descriptive statistics5 KB
    • Tables, charts and graphs3 KB
    • Reliability, validity and bias5 KB
  • Debates and core areas of psychology
    • Debates and core areas of psychology6 KB

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Criminal psychology / Crime and how it is measured

## Types of crime A crime is an act that breaks the law and can be punished by the state. Psychologists group crimes by what the offender does or what they gain, because the explanations for one group do not always fit another. | Type | What it covers | Examples | |---|---|---| | Violent | Harming or threatening to harm a person | Assault, murder, robbery with force | | Drug related | Making, supplying or possessing controlled substances | Dealing, possession, driving under the influence of drugs | | Acquisitive | Taking or gaining property or money unlawfully | Theft, burglary, fraud | | Sexual | Sexual acts without consent or involving a person who cannot consent | Rape, sexual assault | | Anti-social | Behaviour that causes harassment, alarm or distress to others, often without being a serious crime | Vandalism, graffiti, noisy neighbours, street drinking | Some offences belong in more than one group. A robbery is acquisitive because it aims to take property, and it is violent because force is used. ## Criminal behaviour as a social construct A social construct is something that exists because a society agrees that it does, rather than because it is a fixed fact of nature. Crime is one. No act is criminal in itself; it becomes a crime when a society writes a law against it, and different societies and different periods draw the line in different places. ### Deviation from norms Norms are the unwritten rules about what is acceptable behaviour in a group. Criminal and…

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