PSYCHOLOGY FOR QUEENSLAND UNITS
Table of contents
1. Psychology toolkit
1.1 Studying QCE Psychology
1.2 Considering First Nations perspectives in Psychology
1.3 Understanding the scientific method
1.4 Planning investigations
1.5 Considering safety and ethics
1.6 Collecting data
1.7 Processing and analysing data
1.8 Evaluating evidence
1.9 Communicating scientifically
1.10 Preparing for your data test
1.11 Conducting your student experiment
1.12 Conducting your research investigation
1.13 Preparing for your exams
1.14 Review
2. The nervous system and the brain
2.1 The human nervous system
2.2 Spinal reflexes
2.3 Brain function
2.4 Voluntary movement
2.5 Emotion and brain
2.6 Review
3. Neurotransmission and neurotransmitters
3.1 Neurotransmission
3.2 Neurotransmitters
3.3 Changes to neurotransmitter function
3.4 Review
M3A: Unit 3 Topic 1 Review
4. Processes of seeing and hearing
4.1 Sensation and perception
4.2 Seeing 4.3 Hearing
4.4 Review
5. Influences of sensation and
perception
5.1 Psychological influences on perception
5.2 Psychological influences on visual perception
5.3 Psychological influences on auditory perception
5.4 Cultural influences on perception
5.6 Review
M5A: Unit 3 Topic 2 Review
6. Understanding memory
6.1 Memory processes
6.2 The multi-store model of memory 6.3 The working memory model
6.4 The levels of processing model of memory
6.5 Practical: Evaluating the validity of depth of processing
6.6 Review
7.
The formation and storage of memories
7.4 Review
8. How to remember and forget
10. Social psychology
M8A: Unit 3 Topic 3 Review
9.
Learning
Unit 4 Topic 1 Review
Topic 2: Quantum theory
11. Status
and
power in
groups 11.1 Group social influence 11.2 Groups and power 11.3 Effect of status and power within groups 11.4 Milgram’s experiment and obedience
Factors affecting conformity 11.6 Review
Unit 4 Topic 1 Review
12. Prosocial behaviour
12.1 Factors influencing individual behaviour 12.2 What is prosocial behaviour? 12.3 Factors influencing prosocial behaviour 12.4 Review
13. Aggression
13.1 Aggression 13.2 Influence of advertising and the media on aggression 13.3 Social media and aggression 13.4 Video games and aggression 13.5 Review
M9A: Unit 3 Topic 4 Review
M9B: Unit 3 Review
14. Attraction and relationships
14.1 Cultural and biological explanations of attraction
14.2 Social and cognitive origins of atrraction
14.3 Why relationships end
14.4 Review
M14A: Unit 4 Topic 2 Review
15. Attitudes and bias
15.1 Attitudes
15.2 Cognitive dissonance
15.3 Social identity theory
15.4 Attributions
15.5 Bias
15.6 Review
16. Stereotypes, prejudiece and discrimination
16.1 Stereotypes
16.2 Practical: The effect of sterotype priming behaviour
16.3 Prejudice and discirmination
16.4 Forming prejudice
16.5 Review
M16A: Unit 4 Topic 3 Review
17. Community and culture
17.1 Sense of community
17.2 Culture
17.3 Multiculturalism verus pluralism
17.5 Review
18. Cultural diversity
18.1 Psychological challenges of immigration and acculturation
18.3 The challenges of cultural diversity
18.4 Reducing prejudice
18.5 Review
M18A: Unit 4 Topic 4 Review
M18B: Unit 4 Review
19. Practical manual