Recommended Reading:-
Year 10
| Year 10 Curriculum Overview | Topic | Unit content |
| Term 1/2 | Criminology | Defining crime/Why criminal behaviour occurs/social learning theory/Eysenck’s criminal personality theory/Changing nature of punishment |
| Psychological problems | Defining mental health/Stigma and discrimination/Biological & psychological explanations of Schizophrenia/Biological & psychological explanations of Clinical Depression/Development of treatments | |
| Term 2/3 | Development |
Stages of development and the development of brain structures and functions/IQ tests/Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development/Dweck’s Mindset Theory/Willingham’s Learning Theory/Changing role of education
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| Research Methods 1 | Hypotheses/Variables/Experiment design/Population and sampling/Ethical Guidelines/Experiments/Interviews/ Questionnaires (Surveys)/ Observations/ Case Studies/ Correlations |
Year 11
| Year 11 Curriculum Overview | Topic | Unit content |
| Term 1/2 | Sleep and dreaming | Sleep/Sleep disorders/Endogenous pacemakers & exogenous zeitgebers/Nature of Dreaming/Freudian Theory of Dreaming/Activation Synthesis Theory/Treatments for insomnia |
| Social Influence | Conformity including majority influence/Collective and crowd behaviour/Obedience/Situational Factors/Dispositional Factors/Changing attitudes | |
| Term 2/3 | Memory | Information processing/Forgetting/Brain and memories/Amnesia/Multi-store Model of Memory/Reconstructive Memory/Techniques used for recall |
| Research methods 2 | Types of Data/Descriptive Statistics/Tables, Charts and Graphs/Reliability and Validity/Sources of bias |
