Below you will find an outline of the curriculum content delivered across the year. Please be aware that this is only an outline, and therefore at times content may cut across different half terms or may be moved as required. For a detailed breakdown of what you will be tested on in the assessment windows, please check the year group page.

Year 10Content
Advent 1Teacher 1 will deliver Research Methods including

  •  Hypotheses
  • Sampling
  • Types of experiments
  • Self report methods
  • Data analyses

 

Teacher 2 will deliver in the Research methods topic

  • Research design
  • Reliability and validity
  • Ethics
  • Correlations
  • Observations
  • Case studies
  • Graphs
Advent 2Teacher 1 will deliver Social Influence

  • Conformity
  • Obedience
  • Deindividuation
  • Keys studies of Asch, Milgram and Zimbardo

 

Teacher 2 will deliver Memory

 

  • Types of memory
  • Amnesia
  • Multi Store Model of memory
Lent 1Teacher 1 will deliver Psychological Problems

  •  Symptoms, explanations and treatments of depression and addiction.
  • Issues around the nature v nurture debate in Psychology

 

Teacher 2 will deliver the following of the memory topic

 

  • Key study by Bartlett – reconstructive memory
  • Issue of reductionism and holism
Lent 2Teacher 1 will deliver Developmental Psychology

 

  • Early brain development
  • Piaget’s stages and theory of cognitive development
  • Mindset theory

 

Teacher 2 will deliver Biopsychology

 

  •  The nervous system
  • Structure and function of human brain
Trinity 1Teacher 1 will deliver developmental –

 

  •  Developmental key studies
  • Issue of the development of morality

 

Teacher 2 will deliver Biopsychology

 

  •  Lateralization of function
  • Split brain research
Trinity 2Teacher 1 will revise key content from year 10.

 

Teacher 2 will deliver Biopsychology

 

  • Damage to brain research
  • Key studies Phineas Gage
  • How Psychology has changed over time