12A

1. 12A Psychology
Miss Baptie
Introduction to the Course
Breakdown of Mark schemes and exams
Introduction to A01, A02, A03
Origins of Psychology

2. Welcome Back!!!
 Congratulations!
 Summer Projects
 Review Day – 20/10
 Initial Targets – 21/09
 Introduction to the course…

3. Psychology AS 2015-16
 Exams:
 You will take 1 official mock in January
 You will take 2 exams in Summer.
 Paper 1: Three sections.
 Section A = Social Influence
 Section B = Memory
 Section C = Attachment
 Paper 2: Three sections.
 Section A = Approaches in Psychology
 Section B = Psychopathology
 Section C = Research Methods

4. Psychology AS 2015-16
 Exams:
 Both exams will equate to 100% of an AS
 IF you choose to continue, in 2017, you will revise all AS
topics with the addition of the topic:
 Biopsychology
 You will then re-take more difficult versions of the
exams you took in summer 2016

5. Psychology A level 2016-17
 The third and final exam in
summer 2017 will be Unit PSY04
 This unit is made up of optional
modules:
You are able to choose one
topic from each option block

6. Grade Boundaries
 A01 - Knowledge
 A02 - Application
 A03 - Evaluation
A* - 10
A - 9
B - 8
C - 7
D - 6
E - 5
U - 4>
A* - 20
A - 18
B - 16
C - 14
D - 12
E - 10
U - 8>
12 markers

8. Psychology A Level
 With me…
 Week 2 – 6 = Social Influence
Topic specific Mock: 19/10
• Week 8 – 11 = Memory
Topic Specific Mock: TW Week
11
• Week 12 – 14 = Attachment + 2 weeks after Xmas.
Official Mock Mid January on all 3 topics incorporating RM

9. Activity 1: Fact or Fake???
 In groups try and figure out which of these 6 Psychology
experiments is actually fake…
 Which of these studies were lab experiments?
 What is the benefit of using lab experiments?
 Which of these were ‘field’ experiments?
 What is the benefit of conducting field experiments?
 Which study breeched the most ethical guidelines?

10. What???
• The emergence of
psychology as a
science
• Wundt &
Introspcetion
• Evaluation of
Introspection as a
scientific method
• Different forms of
Research
How???!!
• Discussion about
Wundt’s school of
Psychology
• Watch video
explaining
emergence of
Structuralism
• Comparison between
Wundt and current
scientific methods

11. Origins of Psychology
 Psychology was a branch of Philosophy until the 1870s
when it developed as an independent discipline.
 Psychology Definition:
The science of Behaviour and Mental
Processes.

12. Willhelm Wundt (1879)
 In 1879, Wundt founded the first school of psychology in
Leipzig, Germany.

13. Wundt
 Wundt believed thoughts and mental processes were
objective and could be measured and controlled.
 He aimed to study the structure of the human mind by
looking at memory, attention and perception.
 He used a technique known as Introspection…
(pg 124)

15. Introspection
* Highly trained subjects look inward and report inner
situations and experiences in response to stimuli

16. Evaluation of Wundt’s
Introspection
  Perception is subjective…
  Unreliable
  Invalid (inaccurate)

17. The scientific method
 Wundt developed the idea of Psychology as a science
 The new scientific approach to psychology had 2 major
assumptions…
 1. All behaviour is seen as being ‘caused’ (determinism)
 2. Human behaviour can be ‘predicted’ in certain conditions.

18. The Scientific Method
 Psychologists use the scientific method to conduct
their research.
 The scientific method is a standardized way of making
observations, gathering data, forming theories, testing
predictions, and interpreting results.

19. Research Methods
 Lab study
 Field study
 Natural study
 Quasi-experiment
 Observation
 Case study
 Meta analysis