Product Description

This book offers ideal support for the new specification, developed in partnership with OCR.The Student Book offers engaging material, and support for all options, so students have everything they need in one place.This book is tailored to the specification - we're working closely with the Psychology team at OCR to give you the best support we can. It provides comprehensive support for core studies to engage your students. It offers student-friendly exam support - our unique Exam Cafe pages, plus an Exam Cafe CD-ROM in the back of every book, give students a motivating way to prepare thoroughly for their exams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57731 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Customer Reviews

Unreliable text book
I choose this book as the main AS Psychology textbook for my class primarily because Heinemann were the partner publisher with OCR and I'd just shifted specification. As such, I assumed that the publishers would have insider knowledge and that this text would set the benchmark for what students would need to know. However, whereas it seems well designed, the CD is of some use and all the basics are there, my students have found it poorly written and often extremely confusing. It is also poorly edited and contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (perhaps in an attempt to simplify studies?). For example, a study is described as an experiment, when at best only secondary aspects of it would fit the criteria. Far better to acknowledge that research is dynamic and rarely fits definable categories. I shall not be reusing this book with future classes and will not purchase their A2 text as a consequence. The Hodder AS text, on report from students, seems a far more reliable book.

Oh dear...
I am a student who has being using this book all year, and although at first glance the colourful design and easy to follow explanations will draw you in, you soon realise this is a very clever disguise. All of the relevant information is not in one place, which makes for very longwinded note taking. DO NOT USE THIS BOOK!