Psychology

Course summary

Year 12 ➢ Psychopathology – looking at symptoms, causes, and treatments of OCD, Phobias, and Depression. ➢ Social Influence – the effects of conformity, obedience, and minority influence ➢ Memory – theories of memory and forgetting, application to EWT, and how memory can be improved ➢ Attachment – how childhood attachment affects adult relationships ➢ Approaches & Biopsychology – Theories in Psychology ➢ Research Methods – Scientific principles of how to carry out research in Psychology Year 13 ➢ Gender – theories of gender, atypical gender development, Gender Dysphoria ➢ Schizophrenia – symptoms, theories, and treatments of schizophrenia ➢ Forensic Psychology – Why crime happens, offender profiling, and treatment of offenders ➢ Approaches in Psychology – comparison of theories ➢ Biopsychology - Biological basis of behavior, brain, CNS ➢ Research Methods – development of scientific principles ➢ Issues & Debates – nature/nurture, freewill/determinism, ideographic/nomothetic, holism/reductionism, gender bias, and cultural bias