A Level Psychology Key topics
Psychology A Level 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
A Level Psychology Course Code
H12
Technical Requirements
None
ICS Support Period
18 months