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This book prepares students for all elements of the OCR Psychology AS exam. It covers both research methods and core studies, giving the who, what, where, and even the why of each study. It also looks at some of the work that followed the studies. Key features of the book include:

  • Psychological Investigations: the first chapter of the book helps students to understand research methods in psychology – useful support for the Psychological Investigations exam and for understanding the core studies themselves.
  • Core studies: each study is described first ‘In a Nutshell’, followed by a detailed account of the aims, method, results and conclusions. Guidance is given on how each study can be evaluated and a wealth of extra materials is provided for each study – questions to assess understanding, practical activities, multiple-choice and exam-style questions, further reading and video links.
  • Background to each core study is included in the ‘Starters’ and ‘Afters’ features: information about related research before and after the study; and biographical details of the researcher(s).
  • Approaches, perspectives, issues and methods are considered in a brand-new chapter to cover the themes of the course and prepare students for the long-answer questions on the Core Studies exam.
  • Exam guidance: each chapter ends with short and long answer exam-style questions answered by students with teacher’s comments.

This companion website provides the following supplementary materials to accompany the book:

Student resources

  • Multiple-choice quizzes
  • Model answers to the exam-style questions in the book
  • ‘Independent learning’ worksheets, with activities and guidance to help students learn about the core studies
  • ‘Key issue’ evaluation grids to help students understand key issues in psychology in relation to the core studies
  • Flash cards to test definitions of key terms
  • A step-by-step guide to writing a hypothesis, with examples

Lecturer resources

  • A testbank of multiple-choice questions
  • Suggested answers to the questions in the book, including those on evaluating the core studies
  • PowerPoint summaries of the chapters

All companion website material written by Caroline Parsons