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To provide a grounding in psychological science with a focus on developing both theoretical and practical skills across the main psychological approaches. To support and encourage students to achieve at and beyond their target grades, allowing them to move successfully and enthusiastically to the next stage of their education or working lives. To provide appropriate extra curricular experiences that give pupils the opportunity to further develop their interests and learning within psychology.
Psychology A Level - Years 12, 13
| Year 12, Terms 1-6 | |
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| 12.1 | • Social Influence (conformity, obedience, resistance, minority influence) • Research methods |
| 12.2 | • Memory (Models of memory - Multi-store + Working Memory, forgetting, eyewitness testimony, cognitive interview) • Research methods |
| 12.3 | • Attachment (animal studies, explanations of attachment, Strange Situation, Maternal Deprivation, Institutionalisation, the internal working model) • Research methods |
| 12.4 | • Clinical psychology (definitions of Mental Health, characteristics of phobias/OCD/depression, behavioural approach/treatment of phobias, cognitive approach/treatment of depression, biological approach/treatment of OCD) • Research methods |
| 12.5 | • Approaches (Learning, Cognitive, Biological, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, comparing the approaches) • Research methods • Year 1 Revision |
| 12.6 | • Approaches • Research methods • Year 1 Revision |
| Year 13, Terms 1-6 | |
| 13.1 | • Biopsychology (divisions of nervous system, sensory/relay/motor neurons, synaptic transmission, endocrine system, fight or flight response, brain scanning techniques - fMRI/ECG/ERP, post-mortem examinations, localisation of function and hemispheric specialisation, plasticity and functional recovery) • Research methods |
| 13.2 | • Issues and debates (gender and culture, free will versus determinism, nature-nurture debate, holism versus reductionism, idiographic versus nomothetic approaches, social sensitivity) • Relationships (attraction, romantic relationship theories, online relationships, parasocial relationships) |
| 13.3 | • Schizophrenia (positive and negative symptoms, issues in diagnosis, biological explanations and treatments, psychological explanations and treatments, interactionism) • Forensic Psychology (offender profiling, biological explanations and treatments, psychological explanations and treatments) |
| 13.4-13.6 | • Revision |