Psychology Preparation

Kenilworth School and Sixth Form

Psychology Department-  Preparation Work

Task 1 - Reading

At the start of the course you will study the following topics:

• Social Influence (Conformity & Obedience)
• Memory (Multi-Store Model of Memory & Working Model of Memory)
• Attachments (Harlow’s Study of Monkeys and Lorenz’s Geese)
• Abnormal Psychology (Cognitive explantion of Depression & Behavioural explantion of OCD)

For each of the topics, try to find out some key studies and theories.

Some helpful website could be:

• Simply Psychology
• Tutor2u.
• Youtube has plenty of webinars etc.

Task 2 – Research Methods

Studying how we do research is essential to psychology so we can assess the quality of research and conduct our own studies.

Psychologist use a number of research methods. See if you can find out a little about each of the methods below including a strength and a weakness.

Lab Experiment, Field Experiment, Observation, Case study, Questionnaire and an Interview,

Task 3 – Key terms

Completing a Glossary of terms to help you get a good start to your course.

Terms: