Psychology

Course summary

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and how this dictates our behaviour from communication and memory to thought and emotion. Psychology is a social science that studies behaviour through various methodologies such as experiments, observation, self – reports, case studies and correlational studies. As part of unit 1, students will need to be familiar with how to use these methodologies and be able to evaluate why one would be used over another. Students will need to have a firm grasp of basic numeracy from a statistical analysis perspective and be able to conduct inferential statistical testing from given data. Paper 2 cover a range of popular psychological topics from various psychological approaches including: Social, Cognitive, Developmental, Biological, Individual Differences, Psychodynamic and Behaviourism with topics ranging from helping behaviours to measuring disorders including twenty core pieces of research. Paper 3 students will cover a broad curriculum based upon three topics of Mental Health, Forensic Psychology and Child Psychology again with various approaches an approximately 20 pieces of evidence.