Course description
Psychology & Child Psychology Level 3
This course bundle is an excellent way for those already working in child care to gain marketable skills in child psychology. It is also a great way for anyone new to both disciplines to begin a challenging and rewarding career supporting the health, safety and development of children in need.
Ever wondered what inspires the thoughts and actions of those around you, or wished you understood how your child's mind works? Our Psychology and Child Psychology Level 3 course bundle can help you to delve into this fascinating world and gain a glimpse into human behaviour.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
No prior knowledge or experience in psychology is needed in order to enrol onto this course, making it ideal for those seeking to enter into this subject field for the first time.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive certification from National Institution of Qualifications (NIOQ) and a Learner Unit Summary (which details of all the units you have completed).
This course has been designed to meet the requirements of specific learners or employers. It is endorsed by National Institution of Qualifications, meaning the course has undergone external quality checks to ensure that they are maintained and delivered to an excellent standard.
National Institution of Qualifications are a national certificating organisation. Endorsement of our courses ensures learners have access to high quality materials that cover all learning outcomes, helping them to achieve their potential.
Course Benefits
Split into 2 courses – Psychology Level 3 and Child Psychology Level 3 – every element of this course bundle can be used to help enhance your understanding and knowledge of this field, but more importantly, broaden your career opportunities.
By testing your comprehension of the course materials through written assignments, you will be able to demonstrate your new skills and apply them within practical scenarios and settings.
With this course, you will:
- Be given the flexibility to study when and where you want; at your own pace, and fit it around your current work commitments.
- Gain real and transferrable skills that can be used to climb the career ladder.
- Earn a nationally recognised qualification.
- Be able to study from home – all course materials will be sent straight to your home (via mail or email).
Training Course Content
Psychology Level 3
Unit 1: Science of Psychology
- What is Psychology?
- History of Psychology
- Modern Psychology and Science
- Collecting Psychology Data
Unit 2: Human Development and Learning
- How and why we learn
- Human and social conditioning
- Observational learning and other types
- Cognitive and social development
Unit 3: Relating with Others and Influencers
- Understanding others
- Stereotypes
- Attraction and Love
- Doing as you are told
Unit 4: Guide to your Brain and Consciousness
- What Neurons are
- Story of the damaged brain
- What is consciousness?
- Dreams and Psychology
Unit 5: Memory, Attention and Thinking
- Categories of attention
- Solving problems and memory
- Where in the brain memories are stored and why
- Retrieval of memories
- False memories
- Improving memory
Unit 6: Personality and Intelligence
- Measuring personality
- Understanding different personalities
- Personality: Nature or Nurture
- How to measure intelligence
- Different types of intelligence
Unit 7: Being a Psychologist
- Understanding yourself first
- Do you conform to commands
- What type of psychologist are you
Child Psychology Level 3
Unit 1: An introduction to child psychology
- Introduction to childhood
- A history of childhood education
- Branches of psychology
- History of psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Behaviourism
- Alternate approaches to psychology
- Ways of researching
- Working with children
Unit 2: Cognitive development
- Language basics
- The stages of cognitive development
- Using language in child psychology
- Forming logic
- Steps in the perceptual process
- Piaget's theory
- Socialisation in children
Unit 3: Relationships and attachment
- Versions of attachment
- Different types of attachment
- Disruption of attachment
- Nature and nurture
- Natural behaviour
- John Bowlby
- Early relationships
Unit 4: Cognition and memory
- Memory processes
- Short-term memory
- Long-term memory
- Memory and learning
- Stimulating memory
- How a child's mind works
- A child's perception
- Child psychology in context
Unit 5: Emotional changes
- Learning theories
- Cognitive priming
- Kohlberg's perspective
- Stages and levels of moral development
- Eisenberg's theory
- Developing emotions
- Temperament
Unit 6: Development into adolescence
- Adolescence theories
- Milestones
- Changes into adolescence
Course delivery details
For online based courses, you will study your course and submit work online. Paper based courses are the same as online, but with additional printed study packs sent to you.
The unique home study course covers everything. From understanding the applications of psychology within HR, recruitment, criminology and education, to investigating human behaviour at all levels of the individual (and within wider society); in just 160 hours of study time (80 per course) you will feel confident in your ability to recognise the different types of human responses.
More importantly, you will gain valuable training and knowledge in child psychology, social development, childcare and education, enabling you to analyse child behaviour and development from as early as babies, all the way to preschool and beyond.
And this is fantastic news, if you are looking to get back into education or add a new specialism to your credentials, as this course can offer you the freedom to complete your studies from the comfort of your own home.
No classes. No pressure.
You can fit this unique course bundle around your current commitments; study at your own pace, and still achieve a nationally recognised qualification.
Every element of this course is designed to enlighten your perceptions of psychology, so you can take these transferable skills and use them to build a credible career in this field.
So if like many parents, you wish you could understand the thoughts and the ideas behind your children's actions, why not add this insightful course to your arsenal?
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