Course Content

Unit 1

• Social Psychology

(Conformity, Obedience, Social Influence, Minority Influence, Social Change)

• Memory

(Models of Memory, Explanations of Forgetting, Eye-Witness Testimony)

• Attachment

(Stages of Attachment, Animal Studies, Explanation of Attachment, Strange Situation, Maternal Deprivation, Romanian Orphan Studies, Influence of Early Attachment on Later Relationships)

• Psychopathology

(Defining abnormality, the characteristics, explanations and treatments of OCD, depression and phobias)

Unit 2

• Approaches in Psychology (Learning approaches, Cognitive Approach, Biological Approach, Psychodynamic Approach and Humanistic Approach)

• Biopsychology (Key biological structures and processes that underpin human behaviour)

• Research Methods (Analysis of the types of research studied in psychology. Includes a 10% compulsory maths content of data analysis including inferential statistics and scientific processes)

Unit 3

• Options (3 options from gender, relationships, cognition and development, stress, schizophrenia, eating behaviours, aggression, addiction, forensic psychology)

• Issues and Debates in Psychology (Analyse, interpret and evaluate psychological theories, approaches and research studies)

Assessment

All three A-Level exams are 2 hours each and are equally weighted at 33.3%