A2 Psychology revision
Overview
Week 1
Aspects of personality
Arousal
Week 2
Controlling anxiety
Attitudes
Week 3
Aggression
Confidence
Week 4
Attribution theory
Group success
Week 5
Leadership
Aspects of personality
What do I know
What do I need to know
Anything new that I’ve
learnt
Personality
• Nature vs Nurture
Definitions / Theories
• Hollander (1967)
• Trait theories
• Eysenck’s personality dimensions (EPI)
• Cattell’s Theory – 16 personality factors
• Interactionist theories
How do you measure personality?
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EPI
Cattell’s 16PE
Athletic Motivation Inventory
SCAT
CSAI-2
Observation
Interviews
Theory of Achievement Motivation
• nAch and nAF
POMS
• Iceberg profile
Exam questions on motivation
Review the syllabus
• Devise two personality
questions (3 and 4
marks)
• Devise one personality
essay question (14
marks)
Aspects of personality
Anything new that I’ve
learnt
Arousal
What do I know
What do I need to know
Anything new that I’ve
learnt
Definition
• Related to cognitive and somatic
Theories
• Drive
• Inverted U Theory
• Catastrophe Theory
Attentional narrowing
• Cue utilisation
• Attentional narrowing
• Attentional wastage
Peak flow experience
• Ben Ainslie article page 137
• Zone of optimal functioning
Arousal
What do I know
What do I need to know
Anything new that I’ve
learnt
Exam questions
• 30 minutes, ready steady go.
• Next week:
• Controlling anxiety
• Attitudes