Product Description

Written specifically for the latest AQA(A) specification, Essential AS Psychology provides exactly what you need to achieve top grades in your AS level exams. With its clear and student-friendly language and layout, this new textbook covers all the core topics comprehensively. Whether you're new to psychology, or looking for a revision tool nearer the exam, you'll find this textbook straightforward and easy to use.

Packed full of valuable learning and revision features, including:

· critical discussion boxes
· key studies boxes
· concise chapter summaries
· model exam questions and answers

By focusing clearly on what you really need to know for the AS level exam, Essential AS Psychology provides all the essential content, without excessive detail. After all, there’s enough to learn without adding more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108760 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
This is the best book EVER, for AS Psychology! It's got everything you need for the exam. It's well laid out, and fits the specification well. It's definitely worth its weight in gold and with a bit of hard work, an easy way to an 'A'!

Amazon Customer Review (Amazon Customer Review )

This is the best AS book I've seen. Our college has all the main texts but this one's the easiest to understand and the best laid out. It lives up to its title of including essential material for the exam - definitely worth buying. (Amazon Customer Review )

About the Author
Richard Gross is the author of the bestselling Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, now in its 4th edition. He has also written the Psychology: A New Introduction series, and numerous other bestselling psychology textbooks, published by Hodder & Stoughton. Geoff Rolls is Head of Psychology at Peter Symonds' College, Hampshire, and a highly experienced teacher. He is also the author of Psychology: A New Introduction - Teachers Books for AS & A2 Level.

Customer Reviews

Essential Psychology for AS is the best book ever!!
This book is so fantastic, believe me!! For starters, everything is nicely laid out with bullet points and colour pages etc. This is ideal to be used as a textbook or a revision guide. The best part of this book, which sold itself to me was the model 18 mark answers at the back of the book. It contains around 6-8 model answers for each topic (i.e for memory, attachments, stress etc.)and focuses on the main (most frequent) questions that have come up in previous exams. I have just had my unit 1 exam and for preparation for it, I typed up all the model answers for memory and attachments from the book and added extra details/expanded on points in the essays to ensure that the model answers would achieve 18/18 from an examiner. Then I did some serious revision of the answers, and guess what? The actual 18 mark questions came up in the exam. Remember as each unit is relatively small, there can only be a limited number of 18 mark questions they can actually ask you!

However to be honest I would suggest you bought another psychology book on top of this because if you are planning to use this as a textbook, although topics are explained well, the depth could be improved.

Ultimately I would buy this book even if it was three times the price, because I cannot stress enough the usefulness of the model answers - it will truly improve your grade.

Excellent!
This is the best book EVER, for AS Psychology!

Its got everything you need for the exam.
It well laid out, and fits the specification well.
It's definately worth its weight in gold and with a bit of hard work, an easy route to an 'A'!

(Make sure you are AQA exam board though:as different exam boards require you to learn different information and studies)

Definitely worth buying
This is the best AS book I've seen. Our college has all the main texts but this one's the easiest to understand and the best laid out. It lives up to its title by only including essential material for the exam - definitely worth buying. The bullet point, easy to read format really helps with exam prep. The sample exam answers are great - most of my revision will involve learning these!