PAPER 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology • Social Influence – topics including conformity, obedience, resisting the influence of others, the process of social change. • Memory – models of memory including the multi-store model and working memory model, explanations for forgetting and accuracy of eyewitness testimony. • Attachment – stages of attachment, animal studies of attachment, Bowlby’s monotropic theory of attachment, types of attachment, and influence of childhood attachments on relationships. • Psychopathology – definitions of abnormality, the characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD, behavioural, cognitive and biological approaches to these disorders. PAPER 2: Psychology in Context • Approaches in Psychology – Description, evaluation and comparison of the Learning, cognitive, biological, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches to psychology. • Biopsychology – divisions of the nervous system, functions of the endocrine system, localisation of functions in the brain, ways of studying the brain, factors affecting the sleep/wake cycle. • Research methods - understanding and evaluation of experimental methods, observational techniques, self-report techniques, correlations, Content Analysis and Case Studies. PAPER 3: Issues and Options in Psychology • Issues and debates in psychology – Gender and Culture in Psychology, Free will and determinism, nature-nurture debate, holism vs reductionism, ethical implications of research studies. • Relationships – the evolution of partner preference, factors of attraction, theories of romantic relationships, including the breakdown of relationships, virtual and parasocial relationships. • Schizophrenia – classification and symptoms of schizophrenia, biological, psychological and cognitive explanations of and treatments for Schizophrenia . • Forensic Psychology – Offender profiling, biological and psychological explanations for offending behaviour and dealing with offending behaviour.