Psychology

Course summary

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and human and non-human behaviour. Students will follow the A Level AQA specification linear programme. The course consists of three papers covered over the two years. Paper 1: Introductory topics in psychology - Social influence - Memory - Attachment - Psychopathology Paper 2: Psychology in context - Approaches in psychology - Biopsychology - Research methods and inferential statistics Paper 3: Issues and debates and other options - Psychology of relationships - Forensic psychology - Schizophrenia - Issues and debates