Psychology

Course summary

Unit 1  Social Psychology (conformity, obedience, social influence, minority influence, social change)  Memory (models of memory, explanations of forgetting, eye-witness testimony)  Attachment (stages of attachment, animal studies, explanation of attachment, Strange Situation, Maternal Deprivation, Romanian orphan studies, influence of early attachment on later relationships)  Psychopathology (Defining abnormality, the characteristics, explanations and treatments of OCD, depression and phobias) Unit 2  Approaches in Psychology (Learning approaches, cognitive approach, biological approach, psychodynamic approach and humanistic approach)  Biopsychology (Key biological structures and processes that underpin human behaviour)  Research Methods (Analysis of the types of research studied in psychology. Includes a 10% compulsory maths content of data analysis including inferential statistics and scientific processes) Unit 3  Options (3 options from gender, relationships, cognition and development, stress, schizophrenia, eating behaviours, aggression, addiction, forensic psychology)  Issues and Debates in Psychology (Analyse, interpret and evaluate psychological theories, approaches and research studies)