Psychology

Course summary

Over the course of 2 years you will study various topics within Psychology: • Approaches Psychology • Biopsychology • Issues and debates and Psychopathology • Developmental psychology (how children form relationships with their parents). • Cognitive psychology (how memory works and why we forget information). • Physiological psychology (what happens when we are stressed and how we can treat it). • Individual differences (what is ‘normal’ and what causes eating disorders). • Social psychology (why we want to be like our friends and why we obey authority figures). • Research Methods (how to conduct a good psychology experiment). This A level looks at a range of additional topics such as sleep, relationships and mental disorders.