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