Key term
AQA AS Psychology, memorised in year one.
Everything the AS examines and nothing from the second year. Drill the 9 topics the 7181 specification actually examines.
- AS of 7182
- 9 topics
- 60 subtopics
AQA AS-Level Psychology 7182
Social Influence
Memory
Attachment
Topic overviewCaregiver-infant interactions: reciprocity and interactional synchronySchaffer's stages of attachmentMultiple attachments and the role of the fatherAnimal studies of attachmentExplanations of attachmentAinsworth's Strange Situation and types of attachmentBowlby's theory of maternal deprivation and effects of institutionalisationInfluence of early attachment on relationshipsCultural variations in attachment
Approaches in Psychology
Biopsychology
Clinical Psychology and Mental Health
Research Methods
Scientific Processes
Quantitative and Qualitative Data
Topic overviewQuantitative and qualitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniquesPrimary and secondary data, including meta-analysisDescriptive statistics: measures of central tendency and measures of dispersionPresentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar chartsDistributions: normal and skewed distributionsIntroduction to statistical testing; the sign test
What AQA AS Psychology covers, and what it leaves out
AQA AS Psychology is specification 7181, the standalone first-year qualification alongside the 7182 A level. This page holds only what the AS examines: 9 topics across 60 subtopics, 1,442 active recall questions, starting with Social Influence, Memory and Attachment. The 14 topics kept back for the second year are not shown, so nothing here is content you have not been taught yet.
Starting the second year? The full AQA A-Level Psychology page adds the A2 topics on top of everything here.
AQA A-Level Psychology, specification 7182. Read the AQA subject content ↗
The full specification
9 topics, 60 subtopics. Open any topic to see what is inside it.
01Social Influence6 subtopicsOpen topic
02Memory5 subtopicsOpen topic
03Attachment9 subtopicsOpen topic
- Caregiver-infant interactions: reciprocity and interactional synchrony
- Schaffer's stages of attachment
- Multiple attachments and the role of the father
- Animal studies of attachment
- Explanations of attachment
- Ainsworth's Strange Situation and types of attachment
- Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation and effects of institutionalisation
- Influence of early attachment on relationships
- Cultural variations in attachment
04Approaches in Psychology7 subtopicsOpen topic
05Biopsychology4 subtopicsOpen topic
06Clinical Psychology and Mental Health5 subtopicsOpen topic
07Research Methods6 subtopicsOpen topic
08Scientific Processes12 subtopicsOpen topic
09Quantitative and Qualitative Data6 subtopicsOpen topic
- Quantitative and qualitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques
- Primary and secondary data, including meta-analysis
- Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion
- Presentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar charts
- Distributions: normal and skewed distributions
- Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test
How you work through it
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Define compliance as a type of conformity.
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What is informational social influence?
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How reviews are timed
Levo will automatically distribute all of your progress into a spaced repetition calendar. Once you’ve answered, it’s scheduled for you on the next day in the spaced repetition schedule. Over time, the gaps between your recall get bigger, from a day to three years, reinforcing memorisation over a long period of time.
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Psychology revision questions
Common questions about revising AQA AS-Level Psychology. Tap any to open it.
What is on AQA AS Psychology?
9 topics across 60 subtopics, examined as its own qualification, specification 7181. They are all listed on this page, and each one opens to the subtopics inside it. The full topic list is Social Influence, Memory, Attachment, Approaches in Psychology, Biopsychology, Clinical Psychology and Mental Health and more.
Does AS Psychology count towards the full A level?
No. AS was decoupled in England in 2015, so AQA AS Psychology (7181) is a separate qualification and none of its marks carry into the 7182 A level. It is still the same content though, which is why revising it well sets up the second year.
What is the difference between AS and A level Psychology?
AS is the first-year units only. The A level adds 14 further topics, among them Data Handling and Analysis, Inferential Testing, Issues and Debates in Psychology, and expects you to connect them back to the AS material. Work the AS content here, then move up to the full A level page when you start the second year.
When do you sit AQA AS Psychology?
Normally at the end of Year 12, in the summer series. That gives you one year to memorise 1,442 questions' worth of material, which is roughly 8 questions a day across an academic year if you start in September.
How should you revise for AS Psychology?
By retrieval, not rereading. Cover the answer, pull it from memory, then check. Levo runs that loop across all 9 AS topics and brings each question back on a spaced schedule, so what you learn in September is still there in June.
Is it worth revising AS content again for the A level?
Yes, and it is the mistake most students make. The A-level papers examine this content again from scratch, and because the AS marks do not carry over, the only thing your first year leaves you with is what you still remember. Keeping it on a spaced schedule through Year 13 costs far less than relearning it.
How many questions are there for AQA AS Psychology?
1,442, written from the 7182 subject content and grouped into 60 subtopics so you can work one small area at a time rather than a whole topic at once.
Can you use Levo for just the AS year?
Yes. Pick your subject, choose the AS topics on the topic screen, and every mode — the 3-step method, Cram, Blank Blitz, Build It and Test It — works only that material. Add the second-year topics when you get to them.
Every question in Psychology, on a schedule.
Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.
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