Preparatory work

Students should read the Borlase Psychology Course Introduction. This outlines the course content, assessment objectives, types of questions that students can be asked, with advice on how to answer them and overview the resources that are available to them.

Complete the Psychology Transition tasks. 

These will introduce you to the first topics we will study in psychology and develop some of the key skills you will need. To complete the tasks: make a copy of the google docs, then read the instructions for each task carefully and complete the questions/tasks in the copy you have made.

1. Conformity research questions. Read the summary of Asch’s research into conformity (This is the first topic we cover in year 12) and answer the discussion questions on the google document.

2. Research Methods questions. 

   1. Complete the basic maths skills questions on the Google form linked here

   2. Complete the scientific skills question on the Google form linked here

   3. Complete the practical investigation on the 'Stroop Effect'. Answer the questions on the google document you will need to recruit some willing volunteers to complete your investigation

Resources to obtain

• Recommended Textbook: Cardwell, M and Flanagan, C. The Complete Companion, Psychology A level Year 1 and AS 5 th ed. [ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198436324]

https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780198436324/?region=uk

• A4 ring binder for notes

Extension work

Wider reading

There is a wider reading list on the psychology extracurricular subject page

Watching

• Why we love, why we cheat Helen Fisher

• What hallucination reveals about our minds Oliver Sacks

• The psychology of evil Philip Zimbardo

• Optical illusions show how we see Beau Lotto

• Are we in control of our own decisions? Dan Ariely

• The riddle of experience vs. memory Daniel Kahneman

• Why incompetent people think they're amazing David Dunning

• How reliable is your memory? Elizabeth Loftus

• Why we laugh Sophie Scott

• Don't eat the marshmallow! Joachim de Posada

• Strange answers to the psychopath test Jon Ronson

• Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality Anil Seth

Royal Institution Lectures: 

• The Brian Playlist: 41 Ri Talks about unravelling the secrets of the human brain. 

• The language of life: Say it with sound

• Meet your brain: What's in your head?

• What's going wrong with mental health awareness? - with Lucy Foulkes