Yr11/12 Psychology Transition

Essential Knowledge!

These are the topics that we consider essential for you to have mastered in preparation for you to be a brilliant A level psychologist

Great psychology websites to explore

• PsyPost

• https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/study/psychology_a-z

• PsychCentral

• Psychology Today

• Research Digest

• MindHacks

• PsyBlog

Great psychology reading books

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell

• The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud

• The Happiness Trap - Russ Harris

• The Chimp Paradox - Prof Steve Peters

• The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas Szasz

• The Man who couldn't stop - David Adam

• Madness Explained - Richard Bentall

• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks

Interesting Psychology TED Talks