Psychology

Mr Warner - Head of Department
Ms Allen

Aims:

To help understand the role of the brain to explain human behaviour.
To arouse interest in how the brain functions.
To encourage awareness as to how our society has tried to use psychology to explain complex behaviours such as conformity, aggression, gender, consumer behaviour.
To enable students to become independent learners, through the development of essential study skills and to understand the distinctive methodology of psychologists.
To prepare students for adult life and to encourage them to take an active part in society.

Objectives:

To teach Psychology within the context of a scientific background.
To develop the ability to be able to question, analyse and evaluate a wide range of explanations, theories and research.
To encourage understanding of a broad range of methodology used by psychologists, including experiments, observations etc to demonstrate their understanding orally and in writing supported by an appropriate amount of evidence and psychological knowledge.
To develop an understanding of different explanations of behaviour e.g. biological and psychological explanations of aggression.
To ensure that all students are able to make useful connections between what they learn in psychology and relate these to everyday life e.g. conformity, gender.

Key Stage 5 – A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY

YEAR 12

Social influence

Memory

Attachment

Biopsychology (including)

Psychopathology

Research methods (including)

YEAR 13

Issues and debates in society Gender and cultural bias

Gender (including)

Eating behaviour

Forensic psychology