Psychology

Course summary

A-Level Psychology helps students develop essential knowledge and understanding of different areas of psychology and how they relate to each other. It provides the skills to carry out practical investigations and is bound to stimulate students’ curiosity, encouraging them to engage with psychology in their everyday lives. Component 1: The first unit looks at research methods in Psychology. Here students learn about planning, conducting, analysing and reporting psychological research across a range of experimental and non-experimental methodologies and techniques. Component 2: The second unit introduces some of the central areas of investigation in psychology such as moral development and responses to authority. These are organised in key themes of cognitive and developmental psychology etc. Each key theme is represented by a classic and a contemporary core study. Component 3: The final component is our applied section of the course which examines: Issues in Mental Health, Child Psychology and Criminal Psychology.