Psychology

Assessment

Paper 1 – Foundations in Psychology (35%) Content overview ■ Topic 1: Social Psychology ■ Topic 2: Cognitive Psychology ■ Topic 3: Biological Psychology ■ Topic 4: Learning Theories Assessment overview ■ Written examination. ■ Students must answer all questions from five sections. ■ Sections A–D total 70 marks and comprise mixed question types, including stimulus and data response, short answer and extended-response questions and cover the topic areas as follows: Section A: Social Psychology Section B: Cognitive Psychology Section C: Biological Psychology Section D: Learning Theories ■ Section E: Issues and Debates has 20 marks and comprises two extended-response questions, covering the topic area of issues and debates in Psychology. ■ The assessment is 2 hours long. ■ The assessment consists of 90 marks. ■ The formulae and statistical tables are given in Appendix 4: Formulae and statistical tables will also be given in the paper. ■ Calculators may be used in the examination. Paper 2 – Applications of Psychology (35%) Content overview Mandatory content ■ Topic 5: Clinical Psychology Optional topic ■ Topic 6: Child Psychology Assessment overview ■ Written examination. ■ The paper is composed of two sections. Students must answer all questions from Section A and all questions from a choice of three optional topic areas in Section B. ■ Section A has 54 marks and comprises mixed question types, including data and stimulus-response, short answer and extended-response questions with a 20-mark response covering the topic area of Clinical Psychology. ■ Section B is an option topic and at Surbiton High School our option is Child Psychology. Each section totals 36 marks and comprises mixed question types, including stimulus and data response, short answer and extended-response questions. ■ The assessment is 2 hours long. ■ The assessment consists of 90 marks. ■ The formulae and statistical tables are given in Appendix 4: Formulae and statistical tables will also be given in the paper. ■ Calculators may be used in the examination. Paper 3 – Psychological Skills (30%) Content overview Topic 7: Psychological Skills: ■ Methods ■ Synoptic review of studies ■ Issues and debates Assessment overview ■ Written examination. ■ Students must answer all questions from three sections. ■ Section A has 24 marks and comprises mixed question types, including stimulus and data response and short-answer questions, covering the topic area of research methods. ■ Section B has 24 marks and comprises mixed question types, including stimulus and data response and short-answer questions based on psychological studies and one extended-response question based on classic studies given in Topics 1 to 5. ■ Section C has 32 marks and comprises two extended-response questions, covering the topic area of issues and debates in Psychology. ■ The assessment is 2 hours long. ■ The assessment consists of 80 marks. ■ The formulae and statistical tables are given in Appendix 4: Formulae and statistical tables will also be given in the paper. ■ Calculators may be used in the examination.