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AQA-B A2 Level Syllabus

Our two general textbooks: Eysenck's Fundamentals of Psychology and Eysenck's A2 Level Psychology are both useful for the AQA-B A2 syllabus. We map the contents of both books against this syllabus below.

Additionally, individual titles in the Routledge Modular Psychology Series and other textbooks provide supporting reading for the AQA-B A2 syllabus. Please see below for details.

A2 Module 4 Child Development and Options

13.1 Social Development

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 16
• Eysenck: AS Level Psychology: chapter 4
• Abbott: Social and Personality Development
• Dwyer: Interpersonal Relationships
• Flanagan: Early Socialisation

13.2 Cognitive Development

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapters 13-14
• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 9
• Taylor: Introducing Cognitive Development

13.3 Moral Development

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 15
• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 9

13.4 Exceptional Development

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 13

13.5 Definition and Classification of Behaviour

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 21
• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapters 10-13
• Cave: Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality
• Stirling/Hellewell: Psychopathology

13.6 Anxiety and Eating Disorders

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapters 6 and 12

13.7 Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 10

13.8 Treatments of Atypical Behaviour

• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapters 10-13
• Cave: Therapeutic Approaches in Psychology

Health Psychology Option 13.9 - 13.12

• Curtis: Health Psychology

13.13 Human Relationships

• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 4
• Dwyer: Interpersonal Relationships

13.14 Parapsychology

• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 16

13.15 Substance Abuse

• Eysenck: A2 Level Psychology: chapter 15

13.16 Criminological Psychology

• Sammons/Putwain: Psychology and Crime

A2 Module 5 Perspectives Debates and Methods

14.1 Biological, Behaviourist, Cognitive, Psychoanalytic & Humanistic

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 2
• Jarvis: Theoretical Approaches in Psychology

14.2 The scientific approach

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 1

14.3 Debates in Psychology

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 2
• Bell: Debates in Psychology

14.4 Inferential Statistics

• Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 25
• Searle: Introducing Research and Data in Psychology

General Student Reading

• Banyard: Controversies in Psychology
• Colman: What is Psychology?
• Richards: Putting Psychology in Its Place, 2nd edition
• Statt: A Student's Dictionary of Psychology

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