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During each topic you will be expected to complete some independent study that requires you to go above and beyond the content taught within the course. This development of your wider understanding is good practice for your life beyond 6th Form, whether at university or in the workplace. It will also develop your understanding of the course content by providing a clearer picture of the context in which the topics feature. This, in turn, puts you in a better position to perform well in exams.
To evidence your independent study, take detailed notes and summarise what you have read, watched or listened to. Where you can, link to the topics within our specification, but you may just engage with material that you find interesting. It would be nice for you to feedback on this within Psychology lessons so keep your independent study notes in your folder.
Some ideas to start you off are listed in this. This is only a guideline so please look wider to find your own as well and share them with your peers and Miss Sykes. This is your opportunity to shape your studies to suit your areas of interest!
Approaches
Approaches
To read
To read
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
Introducing Freud - Richard Appignanesi & Oscar Zarate
Introducing Learning & Memory - Richard Appignanesi & Ziauddin Sardar
Walden Two – B.F. Skinner
To listen
To listen
The Psychology Podcast – Solving the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God
The Psychology Podcast - Humanism, Enlightenment and Progress
The Psych Files Podcast – Evolutionary Psychology
Social Influence
Social Influence
To read
To read
The Lucifer Effect – Philip Zimbardo
1984 – George Orwell
To watch
To watch
The Psychology of Evil – Philip Zimbardo (TED Talk)
12 Angry Men (Movie)
BBC Prison Study (Documentary)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Movie)
To listen
To listen
The Dangerous History Podcast – The Psychology of Power and Obedience
Memory
Memory
To read
To read
Still Alice – Lisa Genova
Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets – Luke Dittrich
Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
Introducing Learning & Memory
Aplysia Californica
To listen
To listen
All in the Mind Podcast – Memory and Identity
All in the Mind Podcast – A Highly Superior Memory
Attachment
Attachment
To read
To read
King Solomon’s Ring – Konrad Lorenz
Why Koko the Gorilla mattered - Douglas Main (National Geographic)
A review of attachment theory in the context of adolescent parenting - Flaherty & Sadler (2011)
Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles – Miriam Silver
The Perils of Attachment Parenting – Emma Jenner (The Atlantic)
To watch
To watch
The tragedy of orphanages – Georgette Mulheir (TED Talk)
Child Full of Rage (Documentary)
The Troubled Child (movie)
To listen
To listen
The Psychology Podcast – The Latest Science of Attachment
Psychopathology
Psychopathology
To read
To read
The boy who couldn’t stop washing - Judith Rapoport
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
Counselling for Toads – Robert de Board
Sybil – Flora Reita Schreiber
House Rules – Jodi Picoult
The curious incident of the dog in the night – Mark Haddon
To watch
To watch
Depressed dogs and cats with OCD – what animal madness means for us humans – Laurel Braitman (TED Talk)
Autism: what we know (and what we don’t know yet) – Wendy Chung (TED Talk)
The man who loved the number 12 (documentary)
Side Effects (movie)
Shutter Island (movie)
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic depressive (documentary)
Social Anxiety: Afraid of People (documentary)
To listen
To listen
All in the Mind Podcast – Preventing suicides
Other
Other
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