National 5 Psychology

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Individual Behaviour

1. Sleep and Dreams

REM and non-REM sleep, the Restoration Theory of Sleep (Oswald, 1966), Dement and Kleitman's study, and Freud's theory of dreams including the case of Little Hans.

2. Phobias

Agoraphobia, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder, the two-process model and genetic inheritance, supporting research, and therapies including systematic desensitisation.

Social Behaviour

3. Conformity

Informational and normative social influence, compliance and internalisation, and Asch's and Mori and Arai's studies of conformity.

4. Altruism

Bystander apathy, diffusion of responsibility, pluralistic ignorance, the kin-selection and empathy-altruism theories, supporting research, and cultural differences in altruism.

Research

5. Research Methods

Experimental and non-experimental research methods, key variables, aims and hypotheses, and sampling methods used in psychological research.

6. Research Ethics and Descriptive Statistics

The British Psychological Society's ethical guidelines for research, and calculating the mean, median, and mode.

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