(Not in AQA-B AS Level Syllabus
Eysenck's Fundamentals of Psychology is an ideal comprehensive text for the AS syllabus. We map Eysenck's contents against this syllabus below, demonstrating that this text provides excellent coverage of almost every topic in the syllabus.
Additionally, individual titles in the Routledge Modular Psychology Series and other textbooks provide supporting reading for the AQA-B AS syllabus. Please see below for details.
AS Module 1 Introducing Psychology
10.1.1 What is Psychology?
10.1.2 Key Approaches and the development of psychology in an historical context
10.2.1 Genetic Basis of Behaviour
- Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 14
- Cartwright: Determinants of Animal Behaviour
- Cartwright: Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour
- Pearce: Animal Learning and Cognition
10.2.2 Physiological Psychology
10.2.3 Inheritance and Behaviour
10.3 Methods of Research
10.4 Representing Data and Descriptive Statistics
10.5 Ethics
10.6 Psychology of Gender
AS Module 2 Social and Cognitive Psychology
11.1 Attitudes
11.2 Social Influence
11.3 Social Cognition
11.4 Social Psychology of Sport
11.5 Perception and Attention
- Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 6
- Lund: Attention and Pattern Recognition
- Rookes and Wilson: Perception
11.6 Remembering and Forgetting
- Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology: chapter 8
- Baddeley, Eysenck and Anderson: Memory
- Henderson: Memory and Forgetting