Week 1 Teacher 1 Topic 1: Memory What do we know about the nature of short and long term memory 1. Use the Internet to research historical studies of memory 2.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 3.Outline and evaluate research into the features of short and long term memory (16 marks) Teacher 2 Research methods What is the experimental method in psychology? Primacy /recency experiment IV/DV 1.Complete IV DV worksheet- google classroom 2.Define key terms for the lesson in RM workbook Week 2 Teacher 1 Is there evidence for different types of long-term memory? 1. Explain one difference between semantic and procedural memory (2 marks) Outline one study that has investigated the different types of memory (4 marks) 2.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 3.Essay question: describe and evaluate the different types of LTM (16 marks)
Teacher 1 How can we improve the accuracy of EWT? End of topic test 1. Complete the worksheet. Why is the cognitive interview successful? 2.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 3. Identify and outline two techniques that may be used in a cognitive interview. [4 marks] Teacher 2 Test feedback Experiment presentations Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything and that your workbooks are completed up-to-date Week 8 Teacher 1 Test feedback Topic 2 Social influence What is conformity? How can we explain conformity? Folder check 1. Research Asch’s study of conformity- make notes on any bits you don’t understand 2. Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything. 3.Essay question: Outline and evaluate research into conformity, using PEE (AO1) and PEEL (AO3) grids as your writing frame (16 marks) Teacher 2 Ethical issues in psychological research Use the Internet to find at least two examples
PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything. 3. Essay question: Describe and evaluate two explanations of resistance to social influence (16 marks) 4. Revise for test Teacher 2 Design and carry out correlational research project Research prep Week 11 Teacher 1 Test feedback How do minorities influence behaviour? Folder check 1.Use the Internet to find examples of minorities that have influenced social change 2. Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything. 3. Revise for test Teacher 2 Observations Define key terms in workbook Complete relevant sections in workbook Week 12 Teacher 1 How is minority influence linked to social change? End of topic test Assessment 4: This will take the format of unseen examination questions, ranging from 1 mark- 16 mark questions. Exam conditions 1.Essay question: Discuss the role of social influence processes in social change(16 marks) Teacher 2 Self-report studies Interviews , questionnaires, diaries Design questionnaire research study Week 13
Teacher 1 Test feedback Topic 3: Attachment Caregiver-infant interactions in humans: reciprocity and interactional synchrony. Folder check 1.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 2. Discuss research into caregiver-infant interactions (16 marks) Teacher 2 Approaches The origins of psychology and the emergence of psychology as a science 1.Design a timeline beginning with the philosophical roots of psychology to the emergence of cognitive neuroscience. Uses the Internet and your textbook to find some key psychologists for each approach. 2. Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything Week 14 Teacher 1 Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer. Multiple attachments and the role of the father 1. Answer the questions ‘ what stage am I at?’ 2.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 3. Describe and evaluate Schaffer’s stages of attachment. (16 marks)
Teacher 2 What are the key assumptions of the Psychodynamic approach? What are the strengths and weaknesses of using this approach to understand human behaviour? 1.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 2. Discuss the contribution of the psychodynamic approaches to our understanding of behaviour (16 marks) Week 15 Teacher 1 Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow 1. Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 2. Outline and evaluate animal studies of attachment (16 marks) Teacher 2 What are the key assumptions of the behavioural approach? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach in terms of our understanding of human behaviour? Folder check 1.Read the BBC article on gaming addiction. Apply your knowledge- write 150 words explaining how the behaviourist approach can explain video game addiction. Website on google classroom 2. Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach. you should include comparisons to the psychodynamic approach in your answer (16 marks Week 16 Teacher 1 Explanations of attachment: Dollard and Miller (learning 1.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your
Teacher 2 Measures of dispersion Define key terms in workbook and complete relevant sections Week 25 Teacher 1 How do behaviourists treat phobias? Mid topic test Outline and evaluate the behaviourist approach to treating phobias (16 marks) Teacher 2 Normal distribution of data Define key terms in workbook Complete worksheet Week 26 Teacher 1 What is depression? How do cognitive psychologists explain depression? Complete the ‘Devise your own irrational beliefs’ worksheet. Teacher 2 Descriptive data Week 27 Teacher 1 How do cognitive psychologists explain depression? 1.Organise and add to your class notes using the information in your textbook- use your PLCs to make sure you have notes on everything 2. Outline and evaluate the cognitive treatments for depression (16 marks) Teacher 2 Research methods walking talking mock Introduction to inferential statistics: calculating the sign test. Self-assessment Complete sign test worksheet Week 28 Teacher 1 What is OCD? How does the biological approach explain OCD? Folder check 1. OCD treatments/ research methods worksheet.
Teacher 2 Research methods revision Revise Week 32 Teacher 1 Social influence revision Revise Teacher 2 Research methods revision Revise Week 33 Teacher 1 Attachment revision Revise Teacher 2 Approaches revision Revise Week 34 Teacher 1 In class mocks Revise Teacher 2 Approaches revision Revise Week 35 Teacher 1 Year 2 topic 1:Issues and debates in psychology Free will V determinism Nature V nurture Discuss the freewill v determinism debate. Refer to two topics you have studied in psychology (16 marks) Discuss the nature v nurture debate. Refer to two topics you have studied in psychology (16 marks) Teacher 2 Issues and debates Gender bias Discuss gender bias in Psychology. Refer to two examples of research in your answer (16 marks) Week 36 Teacher 1 Holism V reductionism Idiographic V nomothetic Discuss the holism v reductionism debate. Refer to two topics you have studied in psychology (16 marks) Discuss the idiographic v nomothetic debate. Refer to two topics you
research in your answer (16 marks) Week3 Methods of investigating the brain Biological rhythms- circadian 1. Complete the application task ‘what should I expect from my brain test?’ 2. Describe and evaluate at least two methods of investigating the brain (16 marks) 3. Discuss research into circadian rhythms. Refer to evidence in your answer (16 marks) Week 4 Infradian and ultradian rhythms Endogenous and exogenous zeitgebers End of topic test Folder check Assessment 1: This will take the format of unseen examination questions, ranging from 1 mark- 16 mark questions. Exam conditions Discuss research in to infradian and/or ultradian rhythms (16 marks) Discuss the effects of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle (16 marks) Week 5 Research methods Case studies Content analysis Reliability and validity Statistical testing – levels of measurement Parametric/non-parametric tests Revise for Issues and debates and RM test Week 6 Probability and significance Mann Whitney, Wilcoxon, related and unrelated t tests Spearman’s rho and Pearson’s product moment tests Chi- squared Revise for issues and debates and RM test
least one other explanation of offending in your answer. (16 marks) Week 11 Psychological explanations: Differential association, psychodynamic theories theory 1. Discuss the differential association theory of offending. Refer to at least one other explanation of offending in your answer. (16 marks) 2. Discuss two or more psychodynamic explanations of offending. Refer to evidence in your answer. (16 marks) Week 12 Dealing with offending behaviour Custodial sentencing, behaviour modification, anger management, restorative justice End of topic test Folder check Assessment 3: This will take the format of unseen examination questions, ranging from 1 mark- 16 mark questions. Exam conditions 1. Discuss the psychological effects of custodial sentencing. Refer to evidence in your answer. (16 marks) 2. Discuss behaviour modification in custody. Refer to the issue of recidivism in your answer. (16 marks) 3. Discuss the use of anger management as a treatment for offenders. Refer to evidence in your answer. (16 marks) Week 13 Gender Sex and gender Androgyny and the BSRI The role of chromosomes and hormones 1. Complete sex stereotypes in children’s stories worksheet 2. Discuss the BEM sex role inventory. Refer to evidence in your answer (16 marks) 3. Discuss the role of chromosomes and
hormones in sex and gender. Refer to evidence in your answer. (16 marks) Week 14 Atypical sex chromosome patterns Cognitive explanations of gender development: Kohlberg 1. Discuss atypical sex chromosome patterns and what they tell us about gender development. (16 marks) 2. Outline and evaluate Kohlberg’s theory of gender development. Refer to two other explanations of gender development in your evaluation. (16 marks) Week 15 Cognitive explanations of gender development: gender schema theory Freud’s theory of gender development Social learning theory 1. Describe and evaluate gender schema theory. Refer to Kohlberg’s explanation in your evaluation. (16 marks) 2. Discuss Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of gender development. (16 marks) 3. Outline and evaluate the social learning theory of gender development. Refer to Kohlberg’s theory in your evaluation. (16 marks) Week 16 The influence of culture on gender development The influence of media on gender roles Atypical gender development End of topic test Folder check Assessment 4: This will take the format of unseen examination questions, ranging from 1 mark- 16 mark questions. Exam conditions 1. Discuss research (theories and/or studies) into the influence of culture and/or media on gender roles. (16 marks)
The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the mystery of Human Nature – V. S. Ramachandran The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human- Matt Ridley The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry-Jon Ronson – Criminal Recidivism: Explanation, prediction and prevention- Georgia Zara, David P. Farrington- Criminal Behaviour: A Psychological Approach To Explanation And Prevention- Clive Hollins Films One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- provides a disturbing look into mental hospitals in the 1960s, including electroshock therapy as a form of treatment and a dysfunctional form of group psychotherapy As Good as it Gets-A portrayal of a man with OCD A Beautiful Mind- can’t tell you what it is about- spoilers! Based on a true story. 12 Angry Men- a great way to get to grips with minority influence Shutter Island- good way to look at the unconscious mind and repression ( beware spoilers!) The Machinist- another example of repression (beware spoilers!) Memento- a portrayal of a person with short-term memory loss trying to solve a mystery. Silence of the Lambs- a fictional example of FBI profiling, in a hunt to catch a serial killer Websites For revision and A-level psychology: – for the specification, past papers, mark schemes, examiner’s reports, exam dates etc. – for revision. – for revision and content. – key studies and content – contemporary research and latest news IAG links: University Rankings for 2018 University of Bath University of St Andrews University of Cambridge University of Oxford University College London Loughborough university Durham University