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Note from Marie
These are my predictions of the most likely areas to come up in the 2026 exams due to past paper analysis from 2017-2025. I have no inside knowledege from the exam board. I strongly advise you still revise everything. 

For full transparency I have annotated what came up and for how many marks post the 2026 exams. Out of all of the topics 270 marks awarded were from my hot topics list.

Social Influence

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Asch and/ or variables​

  • Zimbardo conformity to social roles

  • Resistance to social influence This came up as a 16 marker

  • Social change

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Zimbardo conformity to social roles

  • Social change

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Memory

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • MSM This came up as a 16 marker

  • WMM

  • Cognitive Interview

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Types of long term memory

  • Effects of anxiety on EWT

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Attachment

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Stages of attachment 

  • Types of attachment (strange situation) This came up as a 2 marker

  • Explanations of attachments This came up as a 16 marker

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Stages of attachment 

  • Types of attachment (strange situation)

  • Influence of early attachment

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Psychopathology

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Behavioural approach to treating phobias This came up as a 6 marker & 2 marker

  • Cognitive appraoch to treating depression 

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Definitions of abnormality This came up as an 8 marker

  • Characteristics of disorders This came up as a 1 marker

  • Cognitive appraoch to treating depression

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Approaches

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Biological approach

  • The influence of humanism on couselling psychology This partly came up as a 16 marker in a comparison

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Social learning theory This came up as an 8 marker

  • Cognitive appraoch This came up as a 2 marker

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Biopsychology

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Infradian and/ or ultradian rhythms This came up as a 2 marker

  • Fight or flight (maybe?) This came up as a 6 marker

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Shorter answer questions

  • Structure of the nervous system This came up as a 2 marker

  • Localisation of function This came up as an 8 marker

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Research Methods

Feature most years

  • Statistical tests This came up as a 7 marker, another 7 marker, a 3 marker, a 1 marker

  • Descriptive stats

  • EVs, controls and validity This came up as a 4 marker & as part of the 12 mark design a study

  • Aims and hypotheses This came up as a 5 marker

  • Sampling methods This came up as a 3 marker

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Not been assessed recently

  • Experimental design and counterbalancing This came up as part of the 12 marker design a study

  • Writing an ethics form

  • Reliability This came up as a 3 marker, another 3 marker

  • Interviews

  • Case studies

  • Peer review This came up as a 3 marker

  • Report writing

  • Thematic analysis

  • Graphs This came up as a 2 marker

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Issues and Debates

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Nature vs nurture

  • Scientific emphasis on causal explanations

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Ethical implications This came up as a 16 marker

  • Gender bias

  • Scientific emphasis on causal explanations

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Schizophrenia

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Reliability and validity This came up as an 8 marker

  • Token economies

  • Biological explanations This came up as a 1 marker

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Biological explanations

  • Drug therapies This came up as a 9 marker

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Relationships

Essays (8 or 16 markers)​

  • Equity theory

  • Social exchange theory

  • Parasocial relationships This came up as an 8 marker

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Duck's model This came up as a 4 marker

  • Equity theory

  • Social exchange theory

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Aggression

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Media influences of aggression

  • Desensitisation, disinhibition and priming

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Ethological explanations

  • Neural and / or hormonal explanations

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Forensic Psychology

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Eysenck's theory

  • Offender profiling This came up as a 4 marker

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Shorter answer questions

  • Genetic and neural explanations

  • Differential association theory This came up as a 16 marker

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Gender

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Atypical sex chromosones This came up as a 4 marker

  • The effects of culture

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Chromosones and hormones

  • Kohlberg's theory

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Cognition and Development

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Piaget's theory of cognitive development This came up as an 8 marker

  • Selman's perspective taking

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Shorter answer questions

  • Baillergon VOE This came up as a 4 marker

  • Theory of mind

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Addiction

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Cognitive theory of gambling

  • Six stage model of behaviour change

 

Shorter answer questions

  • Describing addiction​

  • Learning theory of addiction

  • Neurochemistry of nicotine This came up as a 16 marker

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Stress

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Physiology

  • Sources of stress: life changes

  • Sources of stress: daily hassles This came up as a 6 marker (with bullet point above)

  • Biofeedback This came up as a 9 marker

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Shorter answer questions

  • Measuring stress This came up as an 8 marker

  • Stress inoculaton therapy

  • Gender differences

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Eating Behaviours

Essays (8 or 16 markers)

  • Success and failure of dieting

  • Biological explanations of anorexia

  • Biological explanations of obesity

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Shorter answer questions

  • Preferences: the role of learning​

  • Family explanations of anorexia

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