Psychology

Course summary

You are human, chances are, you have learnt very little about the workings of the human mind - the organ that governs your every perception and sensation. Psychology focuses on the science of the mind, behaviour and experience. It looks at how individuals think, what they do and the way they are affected by their biological makeup and the wider social group. Why study Psychology? If you are fascinated by the idea of understanding the brain and why we behave the way we do? If you want to grasp the complexities of human behaviour - Psychology A Level is for you. In one lesson, you may be exploring ethical issues in psychological research; in another, you may be learning about memory, and trying to discover why humans forget things. Psychology will offer you a unique academic experience. You will need to be able to learn scientific information such as the aims, procedures and findings of studies but you will also need to be able to evaluate these and other theories. Some answers require you to be concise, but there are also longer essay-based answers, thus again providing diverse experiences and useful transferable skills- developed through the study of a fascinating subject. Lessons will offer different learning opportunities, with written work conducted alongside discussion and pair work, presentations, videos and practicals, such as memory experiments and data collection. Most importantly, Psychology allows you to learn about issues that can be applied to the wider world and focus on things that you experience on an everyday level.