This course prepares candidates for the AQA Psychology A Level syllabus
B(2185), for examinations in
June 2012 and later years.
There are four units in
the A Level Pyschology course
Unit 1 - Introducing Psychology
a) Approaches
- Key Approaches in Psychology
- Biopsychology - Physiological Psychology and The Genetic Basis
of Behaviour
b) Gender Development
- Gender Development - Concepts and Explaining Gender
Development
c) Research Methods
- Methods of Research - Planning Research, Experimental Methods
and Non-experimental Methods
- Representing Data and Descriptive Statistics - Representing
Data and Descriptive Data
- Ethics
Unit 2 - Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and
Individual Differences
a)Social Psychology
- Social Influences
- Social Cognition
b) Cognitive Psychology
- Remembering and Forgetting
- Perceptual Processes
c) Individual Differences
Unit 3 - Child Development and Applied
Options
a) Child Development
- Social Development - Early relationships and Later
Relationships
- Cognitive Development - Piaget's Theory of Cognitive
Development and Alternative Approaches to Children's Cognition
- Moral development - Piaget and Kohlberg and Alternatives to
Piaget and Kohlberg
b) Applied Options
- Cognition and Law - Recognising and Rembering Faces and
Recalling Events
- Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders - Mood Disorders
- Stress and Stress Management - Stress and Illness and Stress
Management
Unit 4 - Approaches, Debates and Methods in
Psychology
a) Approaches in Psychology
- Biological, Behaviourist, Social Learning, Cognitive,
Psychodynamic and Humanistic Approaches - Biological Approach,
Behaviourist Approach, Social Learning Theory, Cognitive Approach,
Psychodynamic Approach, Humanistic Approach, and Comparison of
Approaches
b) Debates in Psychology
c) Methods in Psychology
- Inferential Statistics - Statistical Inference and Statistical
Tests
- Issues in Research