Psychology
Key Stage 5
Term One
Term Two
Term Three
Year One Half Term One
Cognitive Psychology
- Memory with Research Methods (Capacity, Duration, Encoding)
Developmental Psychology
- Attachment with Research Methods (Caregiver-infant interactions, animal studies,)
Social Psychology
– Social Influence with Research Methods (Conformity, ethics)
Year Two Half Term One
Approaches with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- comparison of approaches
Biopsychology with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- brain plasticity, ways of studying the brain, Biological Rhythms and Statistical tests – finish Research Methods
Stress with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Stress response, stress and illness, sources of stress, measuring stress
Year One Half Term Three
Social Psychology
- Social Influence with Research Methods (Resisting these pressures, Minority influence and social change)
Developmental Psychology
- Attachment with Research Methods (explanations (learning theory and Bowlby’s Monotropic theory) Strange Situation, Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis, The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships)
Approaches with Research Methods
- Origins of Psychology, Biological, Learning, Cognitive approaches
Psychopathology with Research Methods
- Definitions, OCD, Phobias, Depression
Year Two Half Term Three
Relationships with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Theories of romantic relationships, Duck’s model of breakdown
Aggression with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Social Psychological explanations, institutional aggression and Media influence on aggression
Year One Half Term Five
- Revision and assessment
Year Two Half Term Five
- Revision
Year One Half Term Two
Cognitive Psychology
- Memory with Research Methods (Models of Memory, Forgetting, Long term memory, Eyewitness testimony and Cognitive Interview)
Social Psychology
- Social Influence with Research Methods (Obedience, ethics)
Year Two Half Term Two
Aggression with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Neural and hormonal, ethological, evolutionary explanations of aggression
Stress with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Individual differences, coping with stress
Relationships with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Attraction, theories of romantic relationships
Aggression with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Biological explanations, Social Psychological explanations
Year One Half Term Four
Psychopathology with Research Methods
- OCD, Phobias, Depression
Approaches with Research Methods and Biopsychology with Research Methods
-Nervous system, Neurons, endocrine system, Fight or flight response
Year Two Half Term Four
Relationships with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Virtual relationships, Parasocial relationships, Evolutional explanation for partner preferences
Issues and Debates
- All the Issues and Debates as they apply in relation to what we have studied over the AS and A level course
- Preparation for the exam for Issues and Debates/Research Methods
Year One Half Term Six
Approaches with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches plus comparison of approaches
Biopsychology with Issues and Debates/Research Methods
- Localisation and lateralisation of the brain, brain plasticity, ways of studying the brain