Psychology
Daily-habit recall for GCSE Psychology: core studies, key concepts and research methods. Named studies and researchers anchor every topic. Three minutes a day on Milgram, Asch, Piliavin, Bartlett and the concepts examiners actually test.
AQA · OCR · Edexcel
~95k
GCSE entries / year
Psychology has grown into the seventh-largest humanities GCSE by entries. In many schools it now rivals History in popularity. The subject has a high density of named studies and researchers, making it an excellent fit for the recall mechanic.
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Boards in scope
AQA 8182 is the dominant spec (primary authoring target). OCR J203 and Edexcel 1PS0 share significant content overlap: memory, development, social influence, research methods. Per-card boards tagging handles board-specific topics (e.g. criminal psychology and sleep and dreaming for OCR).
High
Fit for spaced repetition
GCSE Psychology is built on named studies (Milgram 1963, Asch 1951, Bartlett 1932), psychological terms (agentic state, ecological validity, independent variable) and precise definitions. Recall cards on named researchers and studies produce the strongest exam performance.
What's covered
Core studies, concepts and research methods: spec-anchored.
GCSE Psychology examiners reward students who can name the researcher, state the aim, describe the procedure, give findings and state a conclusion. Educator's recall mechanic ingrains the study-to-finding link that makes psychology exam answers land.
Memory
- ✓The multi-store model — sensory, short-term, long-term
- ✓Reconstructive memory — Bartlett
- ✓Types of long-term memory: Tulving
- ✓Encoding, storage and retrieval
Perception
- ✓Sensation vs perception
- ✓Gibson's direct vs Gregory's constructivist theory
- ✓Visual illusions and perceptual set
- ✓Depth and distance cues
Brain & Neuropsychology
- ✓Structure of the nervous system
- ✓The brain — lobes and localisation of function
- ✓Neurons and synaptic transmission
- ✓Scanning techniques — CT, PET, fMRI
Social Influence
- ✓Conformity — Asch
- ✓Obedience — Milgram
- ✓Bystander and prosocial behaviour
- ✓Crowd and collective behaviour
Development
- ✓Early brain development
- ✓Piaget's stages of cognitive development
- ✓Nature and nurture
- ✓Learning and education
Language, Thought & Communication
- ✓The relationship between language and thought
- ✓Piaget vs Sapir–Whorf
- ✓Human vs animal communication
- ✓Non-verbal communication
Psychological Problems
- ✓Mental health and its incidence
- ✓Depression — characteristics and explanations
- ✓Addiction — explanations and treatment
- ✓Effects of mental-health problems
Research Methods
- ✓Experiments, observations, surveys and case studies
- ✓Variables, hypotheses and sampling
- ✓Reliability, validity and ethics
- ✓Data handling and descriptive statistics
Criminal Psychology (OCR)
- ✓Defining and measuring crime
- ✓Social Learning Theory of criminality: Cooper and Mackie
- ✓Eysenck's criminal personality theory: Heaven
- ✓The changing nature of punishment
Sleep and Dreaming (OCR)
- ✓The nature and functions of sleep
- ✓Freud's theory of dreaming: the Wolfman
- ✓Activation-synthesis theory: Williams et al.
- ✓Insomnia and its treatment
Spec-faithful, sourced and fact-checked. 563 cards cover memory (the multi-store model, Bartlett, types of long-term memory), perception (depth cues, Gibson vs Gregory, illusions, perceptual set), development (Piaget, Dweck, Willingham), social influence (Asch, Milgram, Piliavin, crowd behaviour), language, thought and communication, brain and neuropsychology, psychological problems (depression, addiction), research methods, and for OCR, criminal psychology and sleep and dreaming.
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