Summary: 20 key topics in Psychology A2 level are mind mapped. The reader is shown the build up of each mind map until the final one in each section that covers the whole topic. Fully photocopiable and ideal for class interaction

Topics: What is psychology? * Wundt * Darwin * Freud * Skinner * Rogers * Psychodynamic approach * Behaviourist approach * Humanistic approach * Cognitive approach * Genetic basis of behaviour * Physiological psychology * Inheritance and behaviour * Ethics * Psychology of gender * Studying gender: concepts and methods * Explaining gender: biological and social learning theories * cognitive and psychoanalytic theories

Topics: Attitudes: function and measurement * Likert scales * Semantic differential and projective techniques * Principle of consistency between attitudes and behaviour * Cognitive dissonance and attitude change

Dual-process models of persuasion * Prejudice and discrimination * Conformity * Majority and minority influence * Obedience to authority * Impression formation * Perception of others * Self-perception * Attribution theory: casual schemata model * covariation model; correspondent-inference model * Social psychology of sport * Perception and attention * Remembering and forgetting * Language and thinking * Cognition and Law

Adulthood; Attachments      ; Learning ; Memory; Perception

Physiological psychology ; Play and friendship ; Psychodynamic approach

Cognitive development; Conformity ;Social psychology; Individual differences ; Language and thought; Stress

Topics covered include: How does Science work? * Our bodies * Species * Animals and Plants