Psychology and Child Psychology Level 3

Psychology Level 3:

Module 1: Defining Psychology

• Introduction
• Psychology practice and approaches
• Behaviourism
• Classification of psychology

Module 2: Research Methods in Psychology

• Qualitative or quantitative
• Ethical considerations
• Experimental and non-experimental methods
• Analysing and presenting data

Module 3: Psychological Abnormality

• The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Depression
• Personality disorders

Module 4: Behaviour and Experience

• The central nervous system
• Sensory processes
• Addictive behaviour
• Drug addiction
• Alcohol addiction
• Smoking addiction
• Motivation

Module 5: Cognitive Psychology

• Perception
• Attention
• Language acquisition
• Memory
• Development of the shelf

Module 6: Social Psychology

• Conformity
• Groups and group behaviour
• Altruism
• Pro-social and anti-social behaviour
• Aggression

Child Psychology Level 3:

Module 1: Defining Child Psychology

• How can we define childhood?
• Historical perspectives of childhood
• Emergence of psychology
• Psychoanalytical perspective
• Behaviourism
• Classical conditioning
• Changing behaviour
• The cognitive, physiological, scientific, humanistic and evolutionary approaches to psychology
• Research methods in psychology
• Child psychology tools

Module 2: Forming Relationships in Childhood

• Attachment
• Nature/nurture debate
• Bowlby's theory
• Innate programming
• Different types of attachment
• Disruption of attachment
• The child’s first relationship

Module 3: Perception, Cognition and Language

• Understanding language
• Cognitive structure and input
• Plurals, syntax and grammar
• The relevance of language to child psychology
• Cognition
• Vision and cognitive development
• Hearing and cognitive development
• Perception
• Piaget
• Socialization

Module 4: Emotional, Social and Moral Development

• Social learning theory
• Cognitive priming
• Kohlberg's perspective
• Eisenberg's perspective
• Emotion and morality
• Temperament and emotional development

Module 5: Children's Minds

• Memory and memory processes
• Short and long term memory
• Models of memory
• Prenatal memory and learning
• From memory to mental activity
• The organisation of children's minds
• How children view others in their world
• How does all this relate to child psychology?

Module 6: Moving Towards Adulthood

• Adolescence
• Development
• Having a sense of gender
• Change