Psychology Studies

Psychology Level 3:

Unit 1: Defining Psychology

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

Unit 2: Research Methods in Psychology

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

Unit 3: Psychological Abnormality

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

Unit 4: Behaviour and Experience

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

Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

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

Unit 6: Social Psychology

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

Child Psychology Level 3:

Unit 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

Unit 2: Forming Relationships in Childhood

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

Unit 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

Unit 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?

Unit 6: Moving Towards Adulthood

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

NLP Level 3:

Unit 1: Development of NLP

• Anatomy of the brain
• What is NLP?
• Historical development of NLP
• NLP Uses
• NLP Application
• NLP Modelling
• Core Skills
• Anchoring
• Reframing
• Presuppositions

Unit 2: NLP Principles

• NLP focus
• Pyramid of outcomes
• Positive intention
• State model
• Life content model
• SMART goals
• Chunking
• Core competencies and skills
• Levels of communication

Unit 3: NLP Values, Belief Systems and Modalities

• Defining belief systems and values
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• Attachment and developmental theories
• Revisiting learning styles
• Applying predicates (preferences)
• Additional NLP modalities

Unit 4: Levels in NLP and Language

• Language acquisition
• NLP levels
• Transference
• Meta programming
• Revisiting learning styles and preferences

Unit 5: NLP Programme Design

• Application of core competencies and skills
• How to plan and design a programme
• Reframing approach and various types
• Modelling approach
• Anchoring approach
• Reinforcement of behaviour changes

Unit 6: Applications of NLP and Professional Practice

• An overview of ethical practice and professional codes
• Legal responsibilities such as data protection
• Coaching and training
• Professional development
• Group settings and contexts
• Human resource contexts (workplace and interviews etc.)
• Skills development

Advanced Psychology:

Unit 1: Social Influence and Conformity

• Internalisation
• Identification
• Compliance
• Informational social influence
• Normative social influence
• Conformity to social roles
• Explanations for obedience
• Resistance to social influence and minority influence
• Role of social influence in social change

Unit 2: Psychopathology

• Abnormality
• Deviation from social norms
• Behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder
• Cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression
• Biological approach to explaining and treating OCD

Unit 3: The Psychology of Stress

• Physiology of stress
• Role of stress in illness
• Sources of stress
• Measuring stress
• Individual differences in stress
• Individual differences in personality types A, B and C
• Individual differences in associated behaviours
• Managing and coping with stress

Unit 4: Debates in Psychology

• Gender and culture in psychology
• Free will and determinism
• The nature-nurture debate
• Holism and reductionism

Unit 5: Approached in Psychology

• Behaviourist approach
• Social learning theory
• The cognitive approach
• The emergence of cognitive neuroscience
• The biological approach

Unit 6: Forensic Psychology

• Problems in defining crime
• Ways of measuring crime
• Offering profiling
• Biological and psychological explanation of offending behaviour and how offending behaviour is managed