Year Term 1Term 2Term 3
Year 12
Component 2:
Investigating Behaviour:
- Milgram & Kohlberg study application
- Ethical issues
- Ethics committees
- Longitudinal studies
- Observations
- Aims, hypotheses
- IV and DV
- Experiments and experimental design
- Sampling
- Content analysis
- Types of data and graphs
- Reliability and validity
- Distribution curves, measures of central tendency & dispersion
- Interviews and questionnaires

Component 1: Psychology Past to Present
- Psychodynamic approach (assumptions)
- Psychodynamic therapy (dream analysis)
- Bowlby (1944)
- Mother as a primary caregiver
- Evaluation of the approach
- Explaining behaviours using the assumptions

- Biological approach (assumptions)
- Biological therapy (drug therapy)
- Raine et al. (1997)
Ethics of neuroscience
Evaluation of the approach
Explaining behaviours using the assumptions

- Behaviourist approach (assumptions)
- Behaviourist therapy (systematic desensitisation)
- Watson and Rayner (1920)
- Using conditioning techniques
- Evaluation of the approach
- Explaining behaviours using the assumptions

- Cognitive approach (assumptions)
- Cognitive therapy (REBT)
- Loftus and Palmer (1974)
- Reliability of EWT
- Evaluation of the approach
- Explaining behaviours using the assumptions

- Positive approach (assumptions)
- Positive therapy (mindfulness)
- Myers and DIener (1995)
- Relevance of positive psychology
- Evaluation of the approach
- Application of assumptions
- Explaining behaviours using the assumptions
- Comparing and contrasting the approaches

Component 2: Investigating Behaviour:
- Primary and secondary data
- Brain scans
- Peer review
- Planning psychological investigations.
- Personal investigation 1

Component 1 Mock
Year 13
Component 3:
Implications in the Real World:

Criminal behaviour:
- Characteristics
- Biological explanations
- Individual difference explanations
- Social Psychological explanations
- Methods of modifying behaviour

Stress:
- Characteristics
- Biological explanations
- Individual difference explanations
- Social Psychological explanations
- Methods of modifying behaviour
- Component 2 mock



Component 3:
Implications in the Real World:

Schizophrenia:
- Characteristics
- Biological explanations
- Individual difference explanations
- Social Psychological explanations
- Methods of modifying behaviour

Controversies:
- Cultural bias
- Ethical costs of conducting research
- Non-human animals
- Scientific status
- Sexism

Component 3 mock

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