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| Psychology A2 - The Complete Companion guide for AQA: The Complete Companion Guide for AQA (Psychology A2) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Category: Book
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 5692
Media: Paperback
Pages: 338
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0748773444
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780748773442
ASIN: 0748773444
Publication Date: February 19, 2004
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 The best A2 book out there by miles September 8, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really don't understand the negative review of the UAE student for this book. I have used this text with my students since its launch, and it serves the purpose more than well. The other reviewer doesn't appear to understand the real aim of the book, that is to cover the most poular subsections of the syllabus without having to carry around all the chapters that would never be used anyway. The two authors have put a great deal of thought into what they have (and haven't included), and students find this a tremendously accessible book. Theories and research studies are clear, colour coded and the AO2 material is given its own special place. The authors don't hide from providing extensive AO2 in difficult areas, and so should be applauded for that. Each topic is layed out in a double page spread. That approach takes a little getting used to if you are used (like most of us are) to the conventional running text of traditional textbooks, but is much, much better when you do. The book is just brilliant, it makes the process of teaching that much easier, because the material is so clear, and leaves the teacher with so much more time to talk about peripheral issues and exam performance. My students have never looked back since switching (from Eysenck's book) to this text. The grades have improved as well. Maybe that's due to my excellent teaching, but I have a sneaky feeling it's more due to this excellent book. Incidentally, just when I thought it couldn't get any better, the same authors have produced a pocket sized 'mini-companion' using the same material in abridged and very user friendly format. If you fail the A level after buying this book, I can only assume that you haven't yet taken it out of the bag!
 1 star and that is being generous! June 21, 2006
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
As an A2 psychology student using this 'text book' I feel that I am appropriately qualified to write this review. At its best this book is dreadful. The language is unnecessarily obtuse and often fails to make its points clearly. The book is full of spelling errors. It was quite a shock to find how utterly awful this book actually was after finding its AS counterpart excellent. I personally feel that a few well detailed studies with plenty of room for evaluation would have been far more beneficial than the few hundred little one-line studies thrown on each page. The book also fails to cover the whole syllabus, which admittedly is fine for the first module, but when concerning the 'Approaches' section is irksome. In this section, the cognitive approach would be extremely useful, however is noticeably absent. The layout and the writing style of this book is unappealing and difficult to work with - the mind boggles as to why the style has strayed from that that worked so well at AS.
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