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Psychology

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
12	Social Influence - Types/explanations of conformity, obedience, resistance to social influence and the role of social influence processes in social change. Studies - Asch, Zimbardo, Milgram. Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis	Attachment - Caregiver-infant interactions in humans, animal studies, types/explanations of attachment and the influence of early attachment on relationships. Studies - Schaffer, Lorenz, Harlow, Bowlby. Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis	Psychopathology - Definitions of abnormality, the behavioural/emotional/cognitive characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD. Studies - Beck, Ellis, Jahoda, Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis	Memory - The multi-store model of memory, long-term memory, working memory model, explanations for forgetting/accuracy of eyewitness testimony Studies - Peterson and Peterson, Baddeley, Loftus and Palmer Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis	Approaches - Learning and comparison of the different approaches (behaviourist, cognitive, biological, psychodynamic) Studies - Wundt, Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, Maslow Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis	BioPsychology (Year 12) - the nervous and endocrine system, flight/fight response, ways of studying the brain and biological rhythms. Research methods - experimental methods, scientific processes, data handling and analysis
13	Relationships - the evolutionary explanation for partner preference, factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships, theories of romantic relationships, virtual relationships in social media and parasocial relationships. Studies - Buss, Walster, Duck, Joinson, McKenna	Schizophrenia - classification and biological/psychological explanations for Schizophrenia, drug therapy (typical and atypical antipsychotics), cognitive behaviour therapy and family therapy. Interlinking it with the interactionist approach Studies - Diathesis-Stress Model, Chadwick	Forensic Psychology - offender profiling, biological/psychological explanations of offending behaviour, dealing with offending behaviour Biopsychology (Year 13) - function of the brain and hemispheric lateralisation, ways of studying the brain (fMRI, EEGs, ERPs), biological rhythms	Issues and debates - gender and cultural bias, free will and determinism, nature-nurture debate, holism and reductionism, idiographic and nomothetic approaches, ethical implications of research	Revision term - going over Yr12 and 13 topics. Focusing on exam techniques for the longer mark questions.	Study leave and exam period

Sociology

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
12	Families and Households: Theories, social change and state policy. Gender roles, domestic labour and power relations in the family. Childhood and changing status of children.	F&H: Changing patterns of marriage. Personal life and diversity of families and households. Demographic trends since 1900. Migration and globalisation. Education and training: Sociological theories about the role and function of education. Differential achievement by class, gender and ethnicity.	Education continued: Relationships and processes in schools: labelling, setting, subcultures, hidden curriculum. Educational polices and globalisation.	Methods of research: primary and secondary, practical, ethical and theoretical issues that influence topic and method. Theory of research: positivism and interpretivism.	Is sociology a science? Links to the theoretical side of research.	Sociological theories-not linked to topics: Consensus and Control theories, Social Action Theories, Postmodernism and Late Modernism.
13	Beliefs in society: ideology, science and religion. Social change and religion. Different types of religious organisations. Secularistion debate.	Beliefs continued: the relationship between different social groups and religion. Begin Crime and Deviance: theories-crime, deviance and social order.	The distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, social class and gender. Crime control, surveillance, prevention and punishment, victims and the role of the criminal justice system.	Globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime, green crime and human rights and state crime. Begin revision.	Revision.	External exams