A.S Psychology Week 1
Learning Objectives
1. The purpose of psychological research
2. How psychological research works
3. To what extent psychology is a pseudo-science
4. Nature versus nurture
5. Free will versus determinism
6. Assumptions of the cognitive approach
7. Linear assessment
8. Homework, expectations and the warning
A.S Psychology Week 2
Learning Objectives
1. The Multi Store Model of Memory (AO1 + 2)
2. Episodic, Semantic and Autobiographical Memory
(AO1)
3. Reconstructive Memory (AO1)
4. Nature versus nurture
5. Free will versus determinism
6. Assumptions of the cognitive approach
7. Linear assessment
8. Homework, expectations and the warning
A.S Psychology Week 3
Learning Objectives
1. The Working Model of Memory (AO1)
2. An evaluation of all 3 models of memory (AO3)
3. Experimental Methodology (AO2) Does Chunking
affect memory recall ?
A.S Psychology Week 4
Learning Objectives
1. Describe and evaluate
The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long
term memory for word sequences (Baddeley, 1966)
A.S Psychology Week 5+6
Learning Objectives
1. Describe and evaluate
Cognitive Evidence of Practical
Plan, conduct, analyse, and evaluate a memory study with
a given IV
A.S Psychology Week 7
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the need for inferential statistics AO3
2. Be able to evaluate a simple experiment using the
GRAVE framework AO3
3. The Case Studies of Henry Molaison and Clive
Wearing (AO1 and A0)
4. What is Dyslexia in children? AO1
5. What is Alzheimer’s and what impact can it have on
elderly people? AO1