Subject Content Psychology will help you understand yourself and other people by learning about different aspects of human behaviour that will help you in daily life, including your interactions with others, your learning and memory performance, your ability to cope with pressure and your understanding of the causes of psychological disorders. Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology This unit includes learning about social influence (why we obey, conform and change the majority’s point of view), memory (how it works, why we forget and how memory works with crime), attachment (how our relationships with caregivers as children affect us as adults) and psychopathology (how mental health disorders affect people and how they are treated). Paper 2: Psychology in Context: This unit includes learning about the different schools of psychology from behaviourist to biopsychology, how stress is registered and how human behaviour is studied as a psychological science. Paper 3: Issues and Options in Psychology: This unit includes learning about psychological debates (such as is it nature or nurture that is more important), relationships (why we need them and why they break down), schizophrenia (what it is, the different causes and treatment), and aggression (how it occurs in gangs, why we are aggressive people and if there is a biological basis).