Psychology

Course summary

In the first year topics include memory, attachment, social influence and psychopathology. Students will explore how memory works, whether a deprived childhood influences later relationships and how can depression, phobias and OCD be explained and treated. In the Upper Sixth, students specialise in three main areas. Firstly, the psychology of relationships, looking at why are we attracted to some people and not to others, why some relationships break down. Secondly, schizophrenia, asking what it is, what causes it and whether it can be cured. Finally, forensic psychology. This final topic looks into explanations of criminal behaviour and offender profiling. Examining what factors come together to create a truly dangerous individual such as a serial killer.