Psychology

Assessment

COURSE CONTENT The course follows a linear structure. The following topics will be covered over the two year course: Year 1 • Paper 1 – Social influence including conformity and obedience, Memory and Forgetting including police interviewing techniques and eye witness testimony, Attachments in infancy including institutionalised children and maternal deprivation. • Paper 2 – Approaches in Psychology including the biological and behavioural approach, Biopsychology including the fight or flight response and ways of studying the brain, Psychopathology including depression and phobias and Research methods. Students will be assessed in two 1½ exams consisting of short and extended responses. Year 2 Students that continue onto the A level course will sit three exams at the end of the two year course, each exam is 2 hours in length. Students are assessed through multiple choice questions plus short and extended responses. The A level Course covers Scientific Method, Issues and Debates, Relationships, Schizophrenia and Aggression. - Issues and Debates in Psychological research – gender and culture bias, holism and freewill - Relationships – Relationship formation and maintenance theories, as well as virtual and parasocial relationships - Schizophrenia – classification of the disorder and biological and psychological explanations and therapies - Aggression – social learning theory and deindividuation, prison violence and genetic and neural explanations