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Unit 4: Social and Developmental Psychology

5 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

What makes us help others or harm them?

Explain prosocial behaviour and aggression, including the factors that influence each.

Helping, altruism and the bystander effect alongside theories of aggression, using Darley and Latane, Bandura and the frustration-aggression hypothesis, for TCE Psychology.

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What shapes mental health and wellbeing?

Explain psychological health, disorder and treatment

Defining normality, models of disorder, stress, anxiety and depression, plus biological and psychological treatments for TCE Psychology.

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How do other people influence our behaviour?

Explain social influence on individual behaviour

Conformity, obedience, group behaviour and attribution, with Asch, Milgram and Zimbardo studies, for TCE Psychology social psychology.

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What explains the stable patterns that make each person unique?

Compare theories of personality and how personality is measured.

Psychoanalytic, humanist, trait and social-cognitive theories of personality, with Freud, Maslow, Rogers, Eysenck and Bandura, plus methods of personality assessment.

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How do people change across the lifespan?

Explain theories of human development

Cognitive, attachment, psychosocial and moral development theories from Piaget, Bowlby, Ainsworth, Erikson and Kohlberg for TCE Psychology.

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