Psychology

Course summary

This course of study comprises three 2 hour exam papers with no coursework. The emphasis is on applying knowledge and understanding, thereby developing students' transferable skills of analysis, evaluation and critical thinking. The A-level Psychology qualification will give you a fundamental and lasting insight into human behaviour, thinking and reasoning. This will help you to cope better with your own life, but also it will help you to gain a better understanding of others. By studying the nature of memory and techniques for memory improvement you will learn methods of successful study skills, which should help you with other subjects as well. These qualifications are linear. Linear means that students will sit all of their A-level exams at the end of their A-level course. A-level Topic Outline: 1. Social influence (Paper 1) 2. Memory (Paper 1) 4. Psychopathology (Paper 1) 5. Approaches in Psychology (Paper 2) 6. Biopsychological (Paper 2) 7. Research methods (Paper 2) 8. Issues and debates in psychology (Paper 3) 9. Relationships (Paper 3) 10. Schizophrenia (Paper 3) 11. Forensic Psychology (Paper 3)