Year 12 · SACE / Psychology
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Topics in the resource inventory
- Analysing behaviour through biological, psychological and sociocultural factors
- Experimental, observational and qualitative investigations compared
- Hypotheses, variables, method and justification
- Tables, graphs, means, medians and standard deviations
- Reliability, validity, sampling and ethical practice
- Factors influencing obedience: proximity, prestige and deindividuation
- Two landmark obedience experiments and their ethical criticisms
- Normative and informational social influence and individual characteristics
- Compliance, internalisation and identification
- Source, message, audience and central versus peripheral routes
- Bidirectional links, self-monitoring and cognitive dissonance
- Causes, effects and strategies for reducing prejudice
- Pairing stimuli: UCS, UCR, NS, CS and CR
- What makes a conditioned association form and hold
- How conditioned responses spread, narrow and fade
- Taste aversions, phobias, systematic desensitisation and aversion therapy
- Reinforcement, punishment and the consequences of behaviour
- Fixed and variable, ratio and interval schedules and their effects
- Applying operant principles to change behaviour
- Attention, retention, reproduction, motivation, mirror cells and Bandura
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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