2024 SACE Stage 2 Psychology Yearly Planner *May be subject to change*

Term 1 TOPIC Term 3 TOPIC

Science Inquiry Skills & Biopsychosocial Model The Psychology of Learning
Week 1 - Introduction to SACE Stage 2 Psychology Week 1 - Classical conditioning; Pavlov and Watson
- Recap of Science Inquiry Skills (SIS) - UCS, UCR, CS, CR, NS; Generalisation, discrimination, extinction,
-Biopsychosocial Model spontaneous recovery, preparedness, contiguity and contingency
Psychology of the Individual Week 2 - Phobias; definition and origins
- Systematic desensitisation and CBT
Week 2 - Introduce data collection for Design and Deconstruct Week 3 - Operant conditioning – Skinner Box
Completion Practical - Positive and negative reinforcement
- Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory - Punishment: aversive and response cost
- ID, Ego & Superego, levels of consciousness, psychosexual - Contiguity, contingency, preparedness
stages, defence mechanisms, strengths and weaknesses - Shaping
- SHE drafts due
Week 3 - Rogers and Maslow’s Humanistic Theory Week 4 - Schedules of reinforcement
- Client centred therapy; Hierarchy of needs - Placebo effect
- Trait Theory; Eysenck and The BIG 5 - Behaviour modification
Week 4 - Personality Assessments; Myers-Briggs, EPI, 16PF, BIG 5, Week 5 - Observational learning – Bandura & BoBo Doll
Inkblot and TAT. - ARRM: attention, retention, reproduction and motivation. Factors:
- Final data collection for Design and Deconstruct gender, relationship, status, consequences
Completion Practical - Mirror neurons
Week 5 - Personality Disorders Week 6 - Personal differences in learning
- Introduce Media Character Analysis SAT - Revision: The Psychology of Learning SAT Test
Psychological Health & Wellbeing Organisational Psychology
Week 6 - Introduce Completion Practical for D&D Week 7 - Roles of I-OP
- Mental Health & Psychological Disorders - Types of Organizations
- History of mental health - The Psychology of Learning SAT Test
- Stigma of mental health
Week 7 - Depression & Anxiety – symptoms and treatments Week 8 - How the world of work has changed: part time, women, age, COVID
- Methods & Ethics of Psych. Wellbeing (hybrid model)
- Final copy of Media Character Analysis Due - Job advertisements: bias
- Leadership Theories: Trait and Contingency

- Sleep 😊 circadian rhythms, stages, hygiene, theory and

Week 8 Week 9 - Leadership Theories: Trait and Contingency
- Introduce Organisational Psychology Leadership SAT: Are leaders born or
disorders. made?
- Introduce Completion Practical for D&D

Week 9 - Stress; flight or fight, general adaptation syndrome Week 10 - Working on final SHE tasks
- Fatigue - Working on Org. Psychology Leadership SAT
- Recap of SIS – Completion Practical - Final SHE Task due
Week 10 - Completion Practical Term 4 TERM 3 HOLIDAYS
- Revision: Psychological Health & Wellbeing SAT Test
SASTA Trial Exam
- Completion Practical drafts due before holidays
Term 2 TERM 1 HOLIDAYS Week 1 - Final Organisational Psychology Leadership SAT due
- Revision for SACE exam – see revision timetable
Week 1 - Psychological Health & Wellbeing SAT Test Week 2 - Revision for SACE exam – see revision timetable

- Final lessons 😊
- Introduce 4-page Design & Deconstruct
- Working on completion Practical Finals & 4-page D&D
drafts
Social Influence Week 3 - SWOT VAC
Week 2 - Milgram and obedience experiments; procedure, factors, Week 4 SACE EXAMINATIONS START
variables, results, ethical issues
PSYCHOLOGY SACE EXAMINATION - DATE TBA
Week 3 - The Stanford Prison Experiment; procedure, factors,
attitudes & behaviour, results, ethical issues – film
Week 4 - Conformity – Asch experiment, types: compliance,
identification, internalisation, NSI & ISI - cults
Week 5 - Attitudes: ABC model, factors that affect them
- Yale communication approach & Elaboration Likelihood
Model
- Final D&D & Completion Practicals Due
Week 6 - Persuasion Techniques
- Derren Brown Social Compliance experiment
- Bi-directional relationship and factors that affect it
Week 7 - Prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping – reasons
- Ethnocentric bias
- Methods of attitudes and IAT
- Pygmalion effect
Week 8 - How to change prejudice
- Impression management: high vs. low self-monitors
- Primacy and recency effect
- Social Media: positives, negatives, addiction and ethical
issues
- The Social Dilemma
- Introduce the SHE Task – social media and society
Week 9 - Revision for midyear examination
TERM 2 HOLIDAYS