AS Psychology Scheme of Work

Week Topic Reading
1 Introduction to Psychology and its approaches E+F 21
G p14
2-6 Memory
Short-term and long-term memory, forgetting, eyewitness testimony
F
CC+M
7-11 Social influence
Conformity and minority influence, obedience to authority, ethical issues in psychological research
F
CC+M
12-16 Stress
Stress as a bodily response, sources of stress, stress management
F
CC+M
17 School exams  
18-21 Research methods
Quantitative and qualitative research methods, research design and implementation, data analysis (also interspersed throughout other Units)
F
CC+M
22-25 Attachment
The development and variety of attachments, deprivation and privation, day care
F
CC+M
26-29 Abnormality
Defining psychological abnormality, biological and physiological models of abnormality, eating disorders
F
CC+M
30-32 External exams  
33-36 A2 Psychopathology
Schizophrenia
E+F 17
R+S
Summer break Research into and essay on causes of schizophrenia  

E+F = Eysenck and Flanagan, Psychology for A2 Level
G = Gross, Psychology: the Science of Mind and Behaviour
F = Flanagan, Psychology for AS Level
CC+M = Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum, Psychology for A Level
R+S = Rosenhan and Seligman, Abnormal Psychology