Mrs G Gummings - Lead Teacher
A Level
Exam Board AQA
Course Code - 7181
Specific requirements
Grade 6 in English and a minimum of 5.5 in Combined Science
What will I study?
Year 1: Social Influence, Attachment, Psychopathology, Memory, Approaches in Psychology, Biopsychology, Research Methods, Active Student Research.
Year 2: Issues and Debates in Psychology
PLUS options from:
- Relationships, Gender, Cognition and Development
- Schizophrenia, Eating Behaviour, Stress
- Aggression, Forensic Psychology, Addiction
Assessment methods
3 x written exam (2 hours each) with a selection of multiple choice, short answer questions, extended answer questions and essay questions.
Formal internal mock exams.
No coursework but continuous lesson assessment via exam style questions/essays
Where does it lead?
Where won’t it take you?
Clinical psychologist
Counselling psychologist
Education mental health practitioner
Educational psychologist
Forensic psychologist ·
Health psychologist
High intensity therapist
Occupational psychologist ·
Psychological wellbeing practitioner
Education
Military
Human Resources
Advertising
The study of human though and behaviour is relevant to all careers that involve contact with other humans. You will be well equipped for a range of future studies and careers
Wider Reading
Films to Watch
12 Angry Men (1957)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Goodwill Hunting (1997)
Frances (1982)
Memento (2000)
RainMan (1988)
On flew over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
Radio 4- Psychology Podcasts
All in the Mind
Mind Changers ( both by Claudia Hammond)
The Life Scientist (Jim Al- Khalili)
Infinite Monkey Cage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/downloads
Read- Non fiction
Bad Science and Bad Pharma (Ben Goldacre)
Bounce (Matthew Syed)
Doctoring the Mind (Bentall)
Love at Goon Park (D Blum)
Opening Skinners Box (Lauren Slater)
Quirkology (Wiseman)
Sex, lies and brain scans (Sahakian and Gottwald)
The psychopath test (Ronson)
The Red Queen: sex and the evolution of human nature (Ridley)
Fiction
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest ( KESEY)
Case Studies to find:
A real boy: How autism shatters our lives and made a family from the pieces. ( Stevens)
As nature made him- the boy who was raised as a girl (Colapinto)
Genie: Escape from a silent childhood (Rus Rymer)
Memory’s Ghost: the strange tale of Mr M and the nature of memory (Hilts)
Magazines
Psychology Review- published 4 times a year
The psychologist
