Year 12 New Spec.
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Autumn Term 1
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Year 13 (A2)
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Social Psychology - Social
Influence
Types of conformity,
explanations of conformity.
Conformity to social roles
Explanations of obedience
Explanations of resistance to
social influence
PSYA3
 Research methods
 Experimental method
 Observational techniques
 Self report techniques
 Correlations
The scientific process
 Aims and hypotheses
 Sampling
 Pilot studies
 Experimental design
 Observational design
 Questionaire construction
 Variables
 Control
 Demand characteristics and
investigator effects
 Gender
Psychological explanations of
gender development
 Cognitive developmental
theory, including Kohlberg
 Gender schema theory
Biological influences on gender
 The role of hormones and
genes in gender development
 Evolutionary explanations of
gender
PSYA4
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Autumn Term 2
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Minority influence
The role of social influence in
processes in social changes
Cognitive PsychologyMemory
The Multi-store model of
memory
Types of Long Term Memory
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Ethics
The role of peer review
Implications of psychological
research for the economy
Data handling and analysis
 Qualitative and quantitative data
 Primary and secondary data
 Descriptive statistics
 Presentation of quantitative data
 Normal and skewed distributions
 The Sign Test
Social influences on gender
 Social influences on gender for
example, the influence of
parents, peers,
 schools, media
 Cultural influences on gender
role.
 The biosocial approach to
gender development including
gender dysphoria
 Perception
Theories of perception
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 Gibson
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Subject:
Psychology
Staff Members SPI/NSU/MAR/EBN
Designing psychological
investigations
Selection and application of
appropriate research methods
Implications of sampling strategies,
Issues of reliability,
Assessing and improving validity,
Ethical considerations in design and
conduct of psychological research
Data analysis and reporting on
investigations
Appropriate selection of graphical
representations
Probability and significance
Type 1/Type 2 errors
Factors affecting choice of statistical
test,
The use of inferential analysis,
including Spearman’s Rho, MannWhitney, Wilcoxon, Chi-Squared
Analysis and interpretation of
qualitative data
Conventions of reporting on
psychological investigations
The application of scientific
method in psychology
The major features of science,
including replicability, objectivity,
theory
construction, hypothesis testing, the
use of empirical methods
Validating new knowledge and the
role of peer review
Psychopathology – Schizophrenia
Clinical characteristics of
schizophrenia
Issues surrounding the classification
and diagnosis of schizophrenia,
Biological explanations of
schizophrenia,
Psychological explanations of
schizophrenia,
Summer Term 1
Spring Term 2
Spring Term 1
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Summer
Term 2
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The Working Memory Model
Explanations for forgetting
Factors affecting the
accuracy of eyewitness
testimony
Improving the accuracy of
eyewitness testimony
Developmental Psychology
– attachment
Caregiver-infant interactions
in humans
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Approaches in Psychology
The Learning Theory
Approaches
The Cognitive Approach
The Biological Approach
The Psychodynamic Approach
The Humanistic Approach
Comparison of Approaches
Animal studies of attachment
Explanations of attachment
Ainsworth’s ‘The Strange
Situation’
Bowlby’s theory of maternal
deprivation
The influence of early
attachment on childhood and
adult relationships
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Research Project
Psychopathology
 Definitions of abnormality
 Behavioural, emotional and
cognitive characteristics of
phobias, depression and OCD
 The behavioural approach to
phobias
 The cognitive approach to
depression
 The biological approach to OCD
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 Research Project
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Mocks
Development of perception
 Developmental of Perceptual
abilities
 Perceptual development
Face recognition
 Bruce and Young’s theory
 Explanations of prosopagnosia
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Biological therapies for
schizophrenia,
Psychological therapies for
schizophrenia, for example,
Biological rhythms and sleep
Biological rhythms
 Circadian, infradian, and
ultradian rhthyms, including the
role of endogenous
pacemakers and of exogenous
zeitgebers in the control of
circadian rhythms
 Disruption of biological rhythms,
for example shift work, jet lag
Sleep
 The nature of sleep
 Functions of sleep,
Disorders of sleep
 Explanations for sleep
disorders,
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Mocks
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Media psychology
 Media influences on social
behaviour
 Explanations of media influences on
pro- and anti-social behaviour
 The positive and negative effects of
computers and video games on
behaviour.
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Media and persuasion
The application of Hovland-Yale and
Elaboration Likelihood models in
explaining the persuasive effects of
media
Explanations for the persuasiveness
of television advertising
The psychology of ‘celebrity’
The attraction of ‘celebrity’, including
social psychological and
evolutionary explanations
Research into intense fandom,
including, celebrity worship and
celebrity stalking.
Consolidation
 Revision of all topics.
 Exam preparation.
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