A Level Psychology

Course summary

Psychology is the science of the mind and behaviour. In the first year you will study the main approaches in psychology and how they attempt to explain behaviour. You will encounter questions such as 'why do we forget?', 'what causes prejudice?' and 'why are people terrified of spiders?' In the second year you will apply this to the areas of Clinical, and Health, Criminal OR Child Psychology. In addition, you will consider how psychologists conduct their research to help them in developing theories, discuss issues such as ethics and the nature nurture debate and conduct data analysis