Academic Development Plan

Student details: First name: Oliver Last name: Kapsch Date of Birth: 30th September 1994 Gender: Male Nationality: Austrian Course details: Course title: Psychology Course start date: 19th September Course finish date: 21st June Level (e.g GCSE, A level etc): AS and A2 level Examination board: AQA Academic objective Recommended Reading *(E-mailed to student as soon as they enroll) Course textbook: AQA Psychology A for AS (2008) and A2 (2009) published by Thomas Nelson Special issues Examination details Examination units to be undertaken in January (if any):
10th Jan 2012 am Psychology A AS/A2 Unit AQA 1 Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods

Examination units to be undertaken in summer session: AS/A2 Unit AQA Psychology A 2 Biological Psychology, Social Psychology and Individual
Differences PSYA2 AS/A2 Unit AQA Psychology A 3 Topics in Psychology PSYA3: 1) Biological Rhythms and Sleep, 2) Perception, 3) Cognition Development and Thinking AS/A2 Unit AQA Psychology A 4 Psychopathology (Anxiety Disorders), Psychology in Action (Psychology of Addictive Behaviour) and Research Methods PSYA4

Week Week 1

Module

Topic and Objective(s)

Resources

Assessment Summary (monthly)

(starting 19 September) 2 3 4 Unit 1: Cognitive Psychology Unit 1: Cognitive Psychology Textbook AS (Ch.1), online memory activities (American Psychological Society) Textbook AS (Ch.2)

Models of Memory

Memory in Everyday life

Unit 2: Biological Psychology

Textbook AS (Ch.8), Zimbardo (Discovering Stress as a Psychology), bodily response BBC Human Body and Mind, Sapolsky (1994) Stress in Everyday life Textbook AS (Ch.9)

8 9

Unit 2: Biological Psychology Unit 1: Developmental Psychology

10

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12 13

Attachment; Textbook AS Attachment in (Ch. 3 and 4) Everyday life Social Unit 2: Social influence; Textbook AS Psychology Social influence (Ch. 10 and 11) in everyday life Investigation Unit 1: design, Textbook AS Research Methods and (Ch. 5 and 6) Methods Techniques Unit 1: Data analysis Textbook AS Research and (Ch. 7) Methods presentation Revision Revision Revision

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS (16th December 8th January ) EXAM AND REVISION WEEK 1st Exam on 10th January 14 (week Unit 2: commencing 16 Individual January) Differences Unit 3: Biological 15 Rhythms and Sleep Unit 3: Biological 16 Rhythms and Sleep 17 Unit 3: Perception Unit 3: Perception

Abnormality Biological Rhythms Sleep states, Disorders of sleep

Textbook AS (Ch. 12 and 13) Textbook A2 (Ch. 1) Textbook A2 (Ch. 2, 3)

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Theories of Textbook A2 perceptual (Ch. 4) organization Development of Perception, Textbook A2 Face (Ch. 5, 6) recognition and visual agnosias

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20

21 22

Unit 3: Development of Textbook A2 Cognition and Thinking (Ch. 22) Development Development of moral Unit 3: understanding, Textbook A2 Cognition and Development of (Ch. 23, 24) Development Social Cognition Unit 4: Psycho- Anxiety Textbook A2 pathology disorders (Ch. 28) Unit 4: Psychology of Textbook A2

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Psychology in addictive (Ch. 32, 33) Action behaviour Application of Unit 4: scientific Research and methodology, Textbook A2 Scientific Designing (Ch. 37, 38) method psychological investigations

EASTER BREAK 2nd13th April Unit 4: Research and Scientific method Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 4 Data analysis and reporting on investigations Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 4 Textbook A2 (Ch. 39) Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 2 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 3 Revision Unit 4

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Exams start 28th May 31 32 33 34