Course outline/overview:

Key Stage 3

Psychology is not taught at KS3

Key Stage 4

The Academy intends to commence teaching KS4 Psychology in September 2011.

GCSE Specification AQA Making Sense of Other People.
The course is organised into two units:

• Unit 1: Memory, Non-verbal Communication, Development of Personality, Stereotyping and Discrimination and Research Methods
• Unit 2: Learning, Social Influence, Sex and Gender, Aggression and Research Methods.

Key Stage 5

GCE AS/A2 Specification AQA A
• The course is organised into four units;

• Unit 1: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
• Unit 2: Biological Psychology, Social Psychology and Individual Differences
• Unit 3: Topics in Psychology
• Unit 4: Psychopathology, Psychology in Action and Research Methods