Psychology The Complete Student Workbook

This Complete AS Psychology Student workbook has been completed revised to meet the 2012 changes to the AQA-A specification. It looks at all the AS key topics: -Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods, Biological Psychology, Social Psychology and Individual Differences. It has been specifically developed to give you all the information you need to be able to successfully sit the AS exam. The Independent Learner Series are the only books to combine both textbook style content and workbook style self study activities and exam style questions. All the material is designed to help and guide you through the learning process and to develop strong evaluation and analysis skills.

Practicals for Psychology provides a set of materials that allows introduductory level students to select and devise their own practicals with the minimum of supervision. Each practical can be replicated without specialist equipment. The book includes: * Twenty studies, covering a wide range of topics and methodologies * Points to think about including the ethical and methodological issues raised by the studies * A 'Do-It-Yourself' section for each key study, showing students how to design their own practical * How to write up the practical, incorporating an actual student report with comments by an examiner * Questionnaires and word lists.

This practical workbook offers a wealth of opportunities for students to apply knowledge learned from the best-selling core text, Foundations of Psychological Testing, Sixth Edition. Exercises and projects allow students to review, engage in, and master concepts, while multiple choice and short answer questions allow students to assess their understanding at the conclusion of each chapter.

This unique workbook promotes an active, hands-on, constructivist approach to the study of the Psychology of Learning, one that follows Bloom's (1956) taxonomy of instructional objectives. The constructivist approach encourages the reader to discover the answers to problems rather than simply look up solutions in a book. This approach assumes that, for information to be remembered, the reader must discover information and manipulate it by checking new information against old information, revising assumptions, beliefs, and knowledge when the old information no longer seems to work. This workbook replaces the passivity of memorizing definitions and procedures with the activities of graphing and interpreting of functional relations--the pillars of theory. Learning and Variables; Functions and Graphs; Basic Principles of Pavlovian Conditioning; Complexities of Pavlovian Conditioning; The Rescorla-Wagner Model; Principles of Operant Conditioning; "Creating" Behavior (Shaping); Schedules of Reinforcement; What Is a Reinforcer?; Punishment and Avoidance; "Simple" Stimulus Control; "Complex" Stimulus Control (Cognitive Processes); Choice and Self-Control (Allocation of Behavior).

The engaging exercises in this student guide actively involve students in the text material. Each chapter includes a selection of practice tests and exercises, as well as key concepts, guided study questions, and section reviews.